Catalonia as a new EU state?

Thousands of Catalans demonstrated in Brussels on Saturday for their independence from Spain. Lluís Foix comments in the Spanish-Catalan daily La Vanguardia: "The Catalan independence movement can be content that it was able to concentrate several thousand people in Brussels to demonstrate for the right to self-determination and independence. The European Union is such a broad and pluralistic entity that it accepts the most diverse demonstrations as completely normal. ... Nevertheless, at least as long as the rules stay as they are I find it unlikely that such excursions can help Catalonia attain the status of a new state in Europe behind the back of the state to which it belongs."

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