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Five recently released Catalan separatists meet with former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont in Waterloo, Belgium. Catalonia's bid to break away from Spain in 2017 provoked one of the worst political crises there since the end of Francisco Franco's military dictatorship in 1975. Leaders of the wealthy Spanish region, which has a population of 7.8 million people, defied a government ban to organise an independence referendum. IMAGES
Axed Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont meets with Catalan parliament speaker Roger Torrent in Brussels. 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
Supporters of the European People's Party (EPP) and the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, celebrate in Brussels after vote projections show the centre-right group in first place. IMAGES
"We have won the European elections. We were convincing, and all this paid off," says European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen at the centre-right European People's Party (EPP) election evening in Brussels, following the EU vote. SOUNDBITE
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