to help spain to become a mother country but all of the sudden on twenty ten when the spanish constitutional court broke the agreement so you would regard that as a seminal moment a watershed moment after the berlin the spanish constitutional court it reverts to even on the statute of a corner autonomy which had already been passed in the referendum by the people of castle it that's absolutely the beginning of everything because there were sort of a pact the so-called two peace pact. because i want to have their turn at me and big cut all i can decide but spain keep a key which is everything decided in got only a must go to the spanish government voted. but then cut army and have their own p. also which is that everything voted in the spanish parliament mass come back to get the money and be voted in of referendum so it was a good pact you have both sides have a way to prevent major problems what happens with the constitutional court and breaking the pact was the beginning of all the whole situation we have now because of people say ok so we this is not a further agreement as it was could two keys

very important because what you had this situation since two thousand and ten when the spanish constitutional court in a case brought by the center a popular body had struck down a statue autonomy given to catalonia agreed and voted on by the spanish and catalan parliament and then by a referendum in catalonia this was struck down by you know unelected judges you had that shift towards probably a majority support for independence leading to that situation when he decided to go for this referendum admin blocked by spain who refuses them the right self-determination and then you have this very very heavy handed response the likes of which i have not seen in western europe really in decades you know sending in the police to break i think at that stage the repression and the repression subsequent of that with people being held in jail as political prisoners by the spanish state has increased the number of catalans who may not necessarily support independence but do say we have a right we have a right to say to ourselves without any of this do you think anyone reading this book by the end of it is going

very important because what you had this situation since two thousand and ten when the spanish constitutional courtin a case brought by the center a popular body had struck down a statue autonomy given to catalonia agreed and voted on by the spanish and catalan parliament and then by a referendum in catalonia this was struck down by you know unelected judges you had that shift towards probably a majority support for independence leading to that situation when he decided to go for this referendum have been blocked by spain who refuses them the right self-determination and then you have this very very heavy handed response the likes of which i have not seen in western europe in decades you know sending in the police to break and i think at that stage the repression and the repression subsequent that would. it will be held in jail as political prisoners by the spanish state has increased the number of catalans who may not necessarily support independence but do say we have a right we have a right to say to ourselves without any of this do you think anyone reading this book by the end of it is going to

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