EU commissioners and MEPs backed the Spanish government’s crackdown on Catalonia’s independence referendum yesterday.
The bloc sided with Spanish Prime Minister Marino Rajoy despite his violent police operation to stop Sunday’s vote that left 900 people injured.
European Commission vice-president Frans Timmermans told the EU Parliament in Strasbourg: “There is a general consensus that the regional government of Catalonia has chosen to ignore the law.
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