Spain needs responsible politicians. Instead, they are stoking insurrection | Victor Lapuente Giné
(The Guardian Spain)

Compromise and careful negotiation can ease the Catalan crisis. Yet both sides in the debate are sticking doggedly, and dangerously, to their moral certitudeIt happened before in the bourgeois capital of a prosperous region that proclaimed itself a republic. The year was 1919 and the revolutionary spirit was roaming the streets of Munich, capital of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republic. Related: In Catalonia and Spain we´re all asking: what have we done to deserve this? | Francesc Badia i Dalmases Related: The crisis in Catalonia is being fed by pernicious myths on both sides | Victor Lapuente Giné Continue reading...