The government of Catalonia is continuing to push for independence from Spain, despite a Spanish court ordering the suspension of a Catalan parliamentary session.
Spanish leaders, meanwhile, want the European Union to take an active role in facilitating dialogue following EU calls for talks between the Catalan and Spanish governments.
The push for independence is also having a detrimental effect on some of Catalonia's largest banks.
Spain's Constitutional Court has ordered the suspension of a session to be held in the Catalan parliament on October 9th.
In the session, Catalonia's government was going to declare independence from Spain following a banned independence referendum in the region.
Of the 42 per cent of Catalans who voted in the referendum on October 1st 90 per cent voted to leave Spain.
The suspension order has further aggravated one of the biggest political crises to hit Spain in decades and has thrown the plan to declare independence into doubt.
