Barcelona and Madrid: Growing Tensions

... resume the dialogue with the autonomous community that was broken off in July (when Mas gave Rajoy a list of 23 proposals on the improvement of various areas of the region’s situation) and start looking for a constructive solution to the “Catalan issue”. Spanish experts think that under the current circumstances it would take a series of meetings and consultations of the Prime Minister and his deputies with many high-level politicians to devise an action plan acceptable to all stakeholders....