On Thursday 2 November, the former President of the Catalan Generalitat, Carles Puigdemont, was still refusing to return to Spain to appear before the Audiencia Nacional, where he may be found guilty of sedition and rebellion.
Arguing that he is being put on “political trial”, Puigdemont is sticking to his statements in Brussels on Tuesday 31 October (see EUROPE 11895), when he said that the four members of the Catalan regional government and himself, who had been in the Belgian capital...