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European Union , Germany , United Kingdom and Ireland , France , Italy , Switzerland , United States , Nordic Countries , Balkans , Central Europe , Portugal and the Baltic . That is the map of the external deployment of the Generalitat, through the so-called embassies . In addition, they plan to open offices in Mexico , Tunisia and Argentina , despite the Government's appeal. That investment helped internationalize the process and support the independence cause, but the impact of that network is becoming more limited now.

London, not to Bercow

The British Government disavowed the president of the House of Commons, John Bercow , who had left open the option that Carles Puigdemont - fled to Belgium - could defend his position in Westminster "without risk of being extradited to Spain."

"The position of the Government on Catalonia is clear, and that is an internal affair of Spain," said the Secretary of State for Europe and the Americas, Chris Pincher . And he further clarified: "The United Kingdom strongly supports the rule of law and it is clear that political leaders, like anyone else, have a duty to abide by the law," in reference to Puigdemont and the penalties imposed by the Supreme to 12 Catalan independence workers.

The Secretary of State for Europe assured that the question of the independence of Catalonia must be resolved "following the constitutional and legal channels", and avoided ruling on the penalties imposed, claiming that "it is a matter of Spain and its democratic institutions."

The Catalan issue opened a gap in Westminster in the midst of the Brexit storm, thanks to a question by Labor Foreign spokeswoman Emily Thornberry , who criticized the "hard hand" of the Security Forces against the Catalan independence forces.

Meanwhile, the Welsh deputy Hywel Williams , of the nationalist party Plaid Cymru, asked if the British Government will maintain dialogue with Spain and the EU on the convictions of the Supreme. "These deputies have the right to appeal to the Constitutional Court and to the European Court of Human Rights. Let justice take its course," Pincher replied.

Paris with the unity of Spain

France is with Spain, "an allied, democratic and European Union country". This is how the sources of the Elysee summed up the position of the Government of France, which was unequivocal in its support: "It is not for us to make any judgment beyond supporting the Spanish Government in its action."

To a question about the condemnation of the Supreme Court to the independence leaders they replied: "We do not comment on the decisions of Justice. But as the spokesman of the Quai d'Orsay said , we have always supported Spain, its territorial integrity and its Constitution" .

He referred to the statement of the spokeswoman of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs to Efe on Monday: "The French authorities have confidence in the ability of the Spanish authorities to overcome the tensions that appeared in Catalonia, while respecting the rule of law and the democracy".

If on Monday the Quai d'Orsay reiterated that France's position on the situation in Catalonia is "constant", this Tuesday, sources close to the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, reiterated: "We do not meddle in the debate. once there have been [contrary] interventions by some parliamentarians, including some from our own group, we have condemned them because it is a bad method. "

"Our country supports the territorial and constitutional unity of Spain," the Gala spokeswoman concluded on Monday, in an almost literal response to the words that the French government usually uses when it manifests itself about Catalonia. The Macron Executive traditionally defends a seamless support for the Spanish Government in its actions against Catalan independence.

Berlin, the lonely 'freelance'

It was an iconic place of independence. The independence triumph in the dispute between German and Spanish justice made Berlin a great focus of attracting international support for independence. Puigdemont himself appeared at a press conference, included that capital in his European tour and there he met with the related deputies of his party. And always with remarkable media success.

This Tuesday, however, in space 0107 of the Press House in Berlin, where the Catalan embassy had summoned the press, only one German journalist appeared. The invitation was massive, for all the accredited media in the German capital and in the Foreign Press Association, which groups the correspondents in the country, but, according to the ABC correspondent in Berlin, only a freelance was published that publishes Articles in Junge Welt , a radical left-wing newspaper that functions as a cooperative.

Maria Kapretz , director of the Generalitat delegation in Germany, insisted on the usual message of denouncing that in Spain human rights are violated and that there is "a justice of two kinds for the benefit of the elites." The German journalist asked about the next steps, and after receiving the response - "appeal for amparo to the Constitutional Court and possibly to the Strasbourg Court" -, the act concluded, 15 minutes after it began, ABC reports.

Rome, nuances in the press

The withdrawal of interest in the process is also observed in the press, where more nuanced or merely informative positions are opening up. Thus, in the Italian La Stampa stood out: "100 years in prison for the 9 Catalan leaders. Rabies in Barcelona". In the Corriere della Sera , the columnist Aldo Cazzullo , although he says that it has been a "political trial," he adds that if "so much has been achieved , it is because the separatists have been wrong in everything that could be wrong."

Despite the withdrawal, independence continues its internationalization task. Several government politicians have shown themselves accessible to international media, in interviews where they question Spanish democracy.

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