Assessments

A traffic officer enforces a confinement order in Barcelona on April 6, 2020.

The Catalan independence movement is quiet for now, but likely to exploit the pandemic in the long run.

Catalan Separatism After COVID-19

<ul><li>Catalan pro-independence groups are keeping their protest actions online for now due to the ongoing health crisis, but that doesn&#39;t mean that they&#39;ve gone away.</li><li>Catalonia is likely to hold elections in the second half of 2020 or in early 2021, which will stir up tensions within the pro-independence movement and deepen its divisions.</li><li>In the long run, economic fallout from the crisis, such as high unemployment, will strengthen separatist groups&#39; calls for independence from Madrid.</li></ul>

ASSESSMENTS

Catalan Separatism After COVID-19

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