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Research shouldn’t be held ransom by the Spanish government in the fight over Catalonia
Imagine the situation: ‘Sorry, your bank has blocked this credit card, please try another one.’ So you try another one, and another, until you’ve tried them all – each one returning the same message. Then you go to the bank, only to find that all your bank accounts have been frozen too, and all within a couple of days. It would be a traumatic experience. Now imagine that this happened to dozens of universities and research centres instead.