Speaking to the press after his meeting with Didier, Aragonès celebrated the Spain-Portugal-France deal to create a green hydrogen pipeline between Barcelona and Marseille.

This is the first time a Catalan president meets with an EU Commissioner since 2015, before the heightened push for independence that culminated with the 2017 referendum deemed illegal by Spain: former president Carles Puigdemont traveled to Brussels five years ago to speak to MEPs about the vote but was not granted a meeting in the EU Commission, nor was his successor Quim Torra.

“We view the restoration of normalized relations very positively,” Aragonès said, while presidency ministry sources argued that this has much to do with the Catalan government’s strategy to pursue talks with Madrid about the independence issue.

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