Efforts to get international mediation to solve the Catalan conflict are underway – that is, according to the Catalan foreign minister. Ernest Maragall believes that the European institutions and the United Nations would be good mediators for the political crisis between Catalonia and Spain. So far, however, his relationship with his Spanish counterpart is far from easy. Today, Catalan News gives you the latest on the dispute between the officials, and there's a brown bear causing some trouble in the Pyrenees.