Spanish and Catalan governments to resume dialogue after leaders meet The Spanish and Catalan governments are to resume talks regarding the region's separatist crisis after a meeting between Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and Joaquim Torra. Sanchez agreed to open talks between his central government and Catalonia's regional government as part of a deal to win the support of lawmakers from Catalan separatist party ERC in the Spanish parliament that he needed to form a government last month following a November 2019 general election. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES