Just watching the news as they announce a date for the referendum on independence in Catalunya.
It will be on November 9th 2014.
The questions, and there are to be two, are ‘Do you want Catalunya to be a State?’  and if you answered Yes, ‘Do you want this State to be independent?’

The news shifts to Madrid and the Spanish Prime Minister Rajoy. His reaction is to say that it is illegal and won’t be allowed to happen. He doesn’t specify how it will be stopped.

Another shift to the leader of the Catalan branch of the PP (the right wing party of Spanish government) Alicia Sanchez Camacho.   She is saying that to have such a referendum would be undemocratic.  Sending in the army of course would be!

It looks like 2014 will be an interesting year.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2013/12/spain-rejects-catalonia-referendum-bid-20131212161025718238.html