Catalan vice president meets Scottish first minister
Pro-independence leaders Pere Aragonès and Nicola Sturgeon pledge to strengthen economic cooperation between their governments
The Catalan vice president Pere Aragonès traveled to Glasgow on Sunday to meet with the first minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon, and discuss their political roadmaps to achieve independence.
Aragonès and Sturgeon agreed on the need for an independence referendum for both Catalonia and Scotland. While Aragonès demanded "the self-determination referendum that Catalonia deserves"—a possibility blatantly opposed by Spain, and which led pro-independence leaders to hold an independence vote deemed as illegal last year—, Sturgeon called for a new referendum for Scotland to have the chance to remain in the European Union (EU) after the United Kingdom decided to leave in the Brexit vote.