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Inside Europe: Tensions rise over Catalan independence vote

Guy Hedgecoe
September 21, 2017

There’s increasing tension between the Spanish government and its regional counterpart in Catalonia ahead of a planned independence referendum on October 1st. Madrid says the vote is illegal. Spanish police have arrested Catalan officials, a move local politicians called imposing a “de facto state of emergency”. Correspondent Guy Hedgecoe has more.

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