Frustration at not being able to troll the Brexit thread boiling over in at least one quarter it seems. There are riots and police apparently brutalising people in Spain and it's a precursor to a police state Europe-wide. There will be consequences to this at ECtHR level if it's as it seems, because Spain is probably violating the ECHR.
As of right now though this is nothing to do with Europe or the European Union beyond that Spain is in both. Weird as the concept may seem for those obsessed with that the EUSSR is pervasive and runs everything this is an internal matter within a sovereign member state.
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/934527/...-mariano-rajoy
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The silence from the European Union over developments in largely pro-European Catalonia has been especially conspicuous since Catalan officials appealed to the bloc to mediate the dispute.
In response to the region’s requests for intervention, the European Commission – the EU’s executive arm – repeated that the referendum was an internal Spanish affair and that it respected Spain’s constitutional order.
EU officials refused to engage even as concerns mounted Friday about post-vote violence.
“We will, as everybody else, be watching events unfolding,” commission spokesman Alexander Winterstein said.
Privately, officials are slightly more forthcoming about their fears.
“We are following the whole process with great, great concern,” a senior EU official said last week. The official briefed reporters on condition that she not be named.
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Even one of Rajoy’s closest EU allies, European Parliament president Antonio Tajani, has refused to explicitly back him and instead called for more dialogue – suggesting Rajoy hasn’t done enough to find a solution.
“I think it’s important to talk on a political level after Monday and to respect laws – Catalan laws and Spanish laws,” Tajani told reporters Friday.
He said he hoped there would be no violence Sunday.
“The rules of politics can’t be with violence,” he said.
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