Opinion
Cause célèbre
Mark Nayler
...expulsion from politics would have been more in proportion to their crime than over a decade behind bars. After all, former Catalan president Artur Mas, who in 2014 also orchestrated an illegal independence referendum, was fined 36,500 euros and banned from ... determination" is not the same thing as the right to independence, and Catalonia already has a great deal of the former. Along with the Basque Country, Spain's wealthiest region enjoys substantial powers of self-governance and autonomy. Furthermore, in his recent