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Catalonia's regional government hold a meeting at the Generalitat Palace in Barcelona as Spain's conservative government this week seeks authorization from the Senate to enforce direct rule on Catalonia. IMAGES
Catalan pro-independence groups block roads to protest a planned cabinet meeting in Barcelona chaired by a Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez. The weekly cabinet meeting usually takes place in Madrid but Sanchez's six-month-old Socialist government decided to hold it in the Catalan capital as part of its efforts to reduce tensions in Catalonia, which last year made a failed attempt to break away from Spain. IMAGES
Spain's separatism crisis face a decisive moment with Catalonia's leader Carles Puigdemont to address regional lawmakers in a speech his supporters hope will be a unilateral declaration of independence. IMAGES of Catalan government meeting
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy meets with Albert Rivera, the leader of the centrist party Ciudadanos, his minority government's ally in parliament, at Moncloa palace as international pressure grows on the Spanish government to resolve a spiralling crisis with its Catalan region after a banned independence referendum was marred by shocking scenes of police violence. IMAGES
Carles Puigdemont, the former leader of Catalonia who fled Spain over his role in a failed 2017 independence bid for the wealthy region, returned to Spain on Thursday after seven years on the run. IMAGES
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