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"We saw that we were heading for a train crash. But we saw it very late, just a few weeks before the referendum," an EU official admitted to EUobserver. (Photo: Albert SalamÈ/NOTIMEX/dpa)

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How the EU failed to prevent the Catalan 'train crash'

On 24 January 2017, in a packed auditorium at the European Parliament in Brussels, Carles Puigdemont already announced what was going to happen.

"At the latest in September 2017, Catalonia will hold a binding independence referendum," said the president of Catalonia's regional government - although the vote eventually took place one day after that deadline, on 1 October.

"This is a European problem," he added, laying out his s...

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"We saw that we were heading for a train crash. But we saw it very late, just a few weeks before the referendum," an EU official admitted to EUobserver. (Photo: Albert SalamÈ/NOTIMEX/dpa)

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