Madrid (CNN) -- The heated debate over potential Catalan independence from Spain took a new turn Wednesday when the Catalan regional parliament approved a declaration alluding to sovereign rights.
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Elsewhere in the debate, the situation of Catalan speakers in Spain and Russian speakers in Latvia was raised.
The Catalan branches of Spain's ruling conservative Popular Party -- which opposes independence -- gained one seat, for a total 19 in the new parliament.
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Mr Aznar, whose party polled well in both the Basque and the Catalan parts of Spain, is determined to challenge the hold of the nationalists.
Next year she will undertake research work at the Institute for Food and Agricultural Research and Technology, a public corporation of the Catalan government in Spain.
Yet by the time Adria was 24 he was the head chef at El Bulli on the Catalan coast in northeastern Spain, at that time a struggling restaurant in danger of losing its Michelin-star rating.
But the rise of Catalan nationalism is provoking tension in Spain itself.
Hearts have never played the Catalan giants and have never beaten a team from Spain in European competition.
The ban in Catalonia was also seen by many Spaniards as an attempt by Catalan nationalists to distinguish the region from the rest of Spain and its traditions.
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By origin, his Union partners are Christian Democrats, keen on a decentralised set-up for Spain not because they want to wave the Catalan flag but because they believe in subsidiarity, decision-making at the lowest appropriate level.
After all, the authors point out, most people in Spain's minority regions see themselves as both Spanish and Basque (or Catalan or Galician) not just one or the other.
Instead, she believes his grammar and sentence construction indicate that Catalan was his native language, and he would have been from what was then the Kingdom of Aragon in northeastern Spain.
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