Ping-Pong - that's what the Catalan and Spanish governments seem to be playing right now. Yesterday, the Catalan president suspended a declaration of independence in an attempt to seek dialogue; today the Spanish prime minister asked for clarification. He warned that if independence was, even for a second, actually declared, it might lead to Catalonia being stripped of its autonomy. And while Barcelona insists on the need for international mediation, Madrid says 'no way’.