BBC news.
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In Spain, one and a half million Catalans are marching through Barcelona to demand independence for their autonomous region. Demonstrators fill the city center waving red and yellow flags and chanting "Catalonia, a new European country". Alfred Bosch, a member of the Catalan regional assembly, told the BBC that he had never seen so many pro-independence marchers in his life. Tom Burridge is at the rally.
西班牙150万加泰隆人正在巴塞罗纳市行进,要求进行独立自治区域。齐声唱喝着“加泰隆,欧洲新国家”的游行者挥舞着红色和黄色的旗子充斥着整座城市。Alfred Bosch是加泰隆区域大会中的一名成员,告诉BBC,在他的一生中都未曾见到这么多支持独立的人。Tom Burridge从集会现场中报道。
This year, calls for independence for the Spanish region in the far northeast of the country have added potency. Because both the Spanish and regional Catalonia economies are in crisis. Some economists say that the Catalan government has barely enough money to pay public sector workers here, and therefore, Catalonia has asked the Spanish central government for a bailout to 5bn euros. The Catalan government argues the central government in Madrid owns it that money because it pays much more in taxes than it gets back in funding from the Spanish government. And many here on the streets of Barcelona want that agreement renegotiated.