Long-awaited high-profile negotiations between Spain's central government and Catalonia's officials over the troubled region's future finally get underway this afternoon in Madrid, in a bid to break years of deadlock, with regional nationalists adamant that Catalan independence should be included in discussions.Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and Catalan regional leader and separatist Quim Torra, each flanked by small but politically heavy-weight delegations of advisers and ministers, will meet in the PM's official residence of the Moncloa to get the bridge-building discussions rolling.
