Rome, March 21 - Italy is in shock after Spanish authorities confirmed on Monday that seven female Italian students were among 13 young people killed in Sunday's bus crash in the Catalonia region ...
What if Catalonia were to secede eventually - would it be able to stand on its own two feet? To the casual observer, Catalonia looks like it has already got many of the trappings of a state.
But President Roberto Maroni, who leads Lombardy, where voter turnout was about 40%, has sought to distance the Italian vote from the situation in Spain. "We are not Catalonia," he told Reuters ...