Catalan leaders came under intense domestic and international pressure on Oct. 9 to halt plans to break away from Spain after the region’s president repeated his threat to declare independence and the government warned it would act to block it.
EurActiv: Catalan leaders under pressure over independence threat
People shout slogans as they wave Catalan pro-independence 'Estelada' flags during a protest in Barcelona on Oct. 2, a day after hundreds were injured in a police crackdown during Catalonia's banned independence referendum.
