Crisis heightens regional tensions in Spain

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MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's deepest economic crisis in decades has disrupted the delicate power balance between the central government and highly autonomous regions like wealthy Catalonia, complicating the country's austerity drive to renew investor confidence. Spain's 17 autonomous regions were granted autonomy in the 1978 Constitution recognizing their nationalistic ambitions, but the bulk of power remained in Madrid. ...

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