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No declaration. Catalan president Carles Puigdemont proposed suspending the results of the recent independence referendum to hold further talks with Spain in an evening speech in Barcelona. The government’s determination to break from Spain in a unilateral declaration of independence risked international isolation, the threat of economic meltdown, and an ironclad backlash from Madrid, which said it had deployed police ready to arrest Puigdemont. He said he’d rather go to jail than remain Spanish. — Andy Reinhardt