mediation," she said.

"After having come so far, and taken Catalonia to the greatest level of tension in its history, President Puigdemont has now subjected his autonomous region to its greatest level of uncertainty.

"The speech the president... gave today is that of a person who does not know where he is, where he's going, nor who he wants to go there with."

Spain's Justice Minister Rafael Catala reiterated the government's position that the referendum was illegal and its results invalid.

How has the Spanish press reacted?

Ara (Barcelona - centre-left, pro-independence) says the Catalan leader "risks the unity of pro-independence groupings in order to try to achieve mediation for a negotiation" with the Spanish state.

El País (Madrid - centrist, unionist) says the government has been studying the application of Article 155 -ΚΑΛΩΣ ΗΛΘΑΤΕ! Kalos ilthate! Welcome!
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Thursday, May 5, 2011

Flowers and messages left by passers-by at the impromptu shrine set up in front of the burnt out Stadiou Street branch of Marfin Bank, after last year's senseless, heartless, murderous attack by brutal thugs, an attack which sickened everyone in Greece and resulted in the loss of four lives, Epaminondas Tsakalis, Paraskevi Zoulia and Aggeliki Papathanasopoulou and her unborn child - employees at Greece's Marfin Bank who did not take part in the strike and remained at their desks, on duty - a tragic waste of lives.

Today one year later, the bank's