Really?
The support given in public statements by EU leaders to [Spanish Prime Minister] Rajoy is combined with concern expressed in private about how the Spanish government's use of police to prevent Catalans from voting last week in the independence referendum could backfire.
Sure, as a proto-empire that is still comprised of independent states the EU has to say that it supports those states' territorial integrity and is "concerned" about encouraging separatism.
But I think the article mis-spelled "delighted" in reporting the EU apparatchiki's private views about Spain's initial response to the voting.
I think that the EU is eager to see the European states part of the EU splinter to create smaller blocks of resistance to "ever closer union" that erases the "proto" prefix to the empire they are building.
