Catalonia Could BRING DOWN EU: Brussels Warned NOT To Wash Its Hands Or Risk Its FUTURE

• Catalonia Could BRING DOWN EU: Brussels Warned NOT To Wash Its Hands Or Risk Its FUTURE
  by JOEY MILLAR, http://www.express.co.uk/
  THE CATALONIA referendum could spark the end of the European Union (EU) if Brussels continues to wash its hands of violent voting day scenes last weekend.
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  The European Union has issued half-hearted condemnations of the violent scenes which saw Spanish police attack Catalonians attempting to vote in Sunday’s referendum. And with Brussels ignoring calls to mediate the situation, which has seen thousands of people protest against police brutality, Catalan officials have now hit out the bloc over its cowardly silence.
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  Amadeu Altafaj, the Catalan government’s Brussels representative, said the EU’s “credibility and reputation” was being damaged by its solidarity with Spain. And he said the horrific scenes last weekend, in which more than 800 people were injured by heavily-armed national guards, showed the EU “is not able to protect” its citizens. 
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  He told Politico: “The credibility and the reputation of the European Union is at stake. “The Catalan government calls for an urgent international mediation, preferably European.  “If the EU is not able to protect 7.5 million of its citizens from violence and repression, it will fail not only to them but to the whole union.” 
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