{"id":45754,"date":"2017-10-04T11:01:31","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T11:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=45754"},"modified":"2017-10-04T11:01:31","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T11:01:31","slug":"catalonia-to-declare-independence-from-spain-as-soon-as-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/catalonia-to-declare-independence-from-spain-as-soon-as-weekend.html","title":{"rendered":"Catalonia to declare independence from Spain as soon as weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Catalonia to declare independence from Spain as soon as weekend<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Catalonia to declare independence from Spain as soon as weekend:- Catalonia will move as soon as this weekend to declare independence from Spain, the region\u2019s leader said, moving the European Union country closer to a rupture that threatens the foundations of its young democracy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The constitutional crisis has hit the euro and Spanish stocks and bonds and Volkswagen\u2019s (VOWG_p.DE) Spanish unit SEAT warned of disrupted activity on Tuesday due to protests. Catalonia\u2019s Caixabank (CABK.MC) and Spain\u2019s economy minister have meanwhile sought to assure bank customers that their deposits are secure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Catalan President Carles Puigdemont told the BBC in an remarks published on Wednesday that his government would ask the region\u2019s parliament to declare independence after tallying votes from last weekend\u2019s referendum, which Madrid deems illegal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">His comment appeared after Spain\u2019s King Felipe VI accused secessionist leaders on Tuesday of shattering democratic principles and dividing Catalan society, as tens of thousands protested against a violent police crackdown on Sunday\u2019s vote.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">\u201cWe are to declare independence 48 hours after all the official results are counted,\u201d Puigdemont said in remarks posted on the BBC\u2019s website.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">\u201cThis will probably finish once we get all the votes in from abroad at the end of the week and therefore we shall probably act over the weekend or early next week.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Puigdemont is due to make a statement at 9 p.m. (3.00 p.m. ET) on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt\">Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-spain-politics-catalonia\/catalonia-to-declare-independence-from-spain-as-soon-as-weekend-leader-idUSKCN1C9109<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/catalonia-to-declare-independence-from-spain-as-soon-as-weekend.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catalonia to declare independence from Spain as soon as weekend Catalonia to declare independence from Spain as soon as weekend:- Catalonia will move as soon as this weekend to declare independence from Spain, the region\u2019s leader said, moving the European Union country closer to a rupture that threatens the foundations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5470],"tags":[69608,69607,69609,69610,69611,69612],"class_list":["post-45754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-carles-puigdemont","tag-catalonia-to-declare-independence-from-spain-as-soon-as-weekend","tag-donald-tusk","tag-felipe-vi","tag-luis-de-guindos","tag-mariano-rajoy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}