Oviedo (Spain) - AFP
Spanish King Felipe VI, in an unusually emotional speech Friday, said his nation was facing an "unacceptable secession attempt" by Catalonia, insisting the region remains an essential part of Spain.
"We do not want to give up that which we have built together," he said, adding that the country had overcome "the mistakes of the past" -- in an apparent reference to Spain's former military dictatorship