Spain's PM begins round of talks on new charter
Socialist Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez was to begin another round of talks on Monday with party leaders from Catalonia on a controversial new charter for the powerhouse region which would hand it considerably wider powers of self-government.
On Sunday, the government announced that it had reached "a global deal" with Convergence and Union, which although in opposition in Catalonia is the leading political group in the region, whose capital is Barcelona. The government has been in negotiations for several months with Convergence and Union and the three parties that form the Catalan regional government over a new charter. Only one party involved in the talks, the small Catalan Republican Left, which favours Catalan independence, rejected Sunday's deal as "insufficient," but said it would continue to negotiate.
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