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Catalonia Referendum Update with Joao Gomes and Becquer Seguin
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Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont remains in Brussels, as Spain seeks to charge him and over a dozen ministers with rebellion and sedition. The European Union has largely tried to stay out of the conflict as at the region attempts to declare independence from Madrid. Host Dan Loney talks with Joao Gomes, Professor of Finance at the Wharton School, and Becquer Seguin, Assistant Professor of Iberian Studies at Johns Hopkins University, to discuss the situation and the long term political and financial impact on Spain and the E.U. on Knowledge@Wharton.
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