Big Questions for Catalonia

Things could all come to a head this week in Barcelona. We look at some of they issues around the bid to break away.

Anti-separatist demonstrators in support of the Spanish National Police and Civil Guard wave Spanish national flags on Oct. 5, 2017.

Photographer: Angel Garcia/Bloomberg
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It’s looking like crunch time for Catalonia’s bid to break away from the rest of Spain.

The regional parliament in Barcelona is due to meet this week in defiance of a Spanish court ruling to consider its next move in the country’s biggest constitutional crisis in four decades. Neither side appears to be backing down.