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The meeting of presidents between Quim Torra and Carles Puigdemont in Berlin today has been covered by media around the globe. News agencies Reuters and Associated Press, the largest in the world, highlight that Torra asked for the end to article 155 intervention in Catalonia (Reuters) and "dialogue" with Spanish prime minister, Mariano Rajoy (AP). 

This latter is the report which The New York Times has published. "'Please, Mr. Rajoy, put a date and a place and we will be there ... no preconditions, let’s talk about everything, but let’s talk,' Torra said at a joint news conference with Puigdemont in Berlin". They also report that he "wants to visit the separatist leaders being held in Spanish jails".

Reuters, meanwhile, also notes that Torra said he will restore Puigdemont to office, "without detailing how he would go about [it]".

Influential liberal German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung have published a report by their correspondent in Madrid called "provocative first visit". Thomas Urban writes: "In Berlin, Puigdemont and Torra appealed to Rajoy: 'We have to begin talks and find a political solution for this political conflict, which the courts cannot solve'". Urban believes that Torra's speech shows "separatists are clearly trying to reach a wider base", despite the "groups not being agreed on the way ahead".

Quartz, one of the larger of the online-only news organisations, describes Torra as "drawing swords with Spain":

Perpignan's L'Indépendant also covered the meeting, based on the report from the agency France-Presse, which highlighted this quote from Torra: "The first aim of the new Catalan government is to offer dialogue to the Spanish government". The report also discusses the controversy over some old tweets and articles by the president, emphasising criticisms from SOS Racisme, an NGO movement which started in France. It also covered the meeting in Madrid between Rajoy and Sánchez:

Ouest-France, from Rennes, the best-selling regional newspaper in France, notes that when Quim Torra forms a government, "it will automatically bring about the lifting of the administrative supervision imposed by the central Spanish government" in Catalonia.

Irish public broadcaster RTÉ headlined its report: "New Catalan leader wants jailed, exiled separatists in government".

Argentinian news agency Télam again emphasises that Torra and Puigdemont have ask for dialogue without conditions:

Flemish newspaper De Standaard titles its report "Puigdemont's successor wants dialogue with Madrid" and writes that "Torra concluded with the call to Madrid to give up 'direct control over the Catalan regional government'".

From Lucerne, Switzerland Luzerner Zeitung, says that confrontation between Madrid and Barcelona "seems inevitable". They add that "no relaxation of the conflict in Catalonia is to be expected. The 55-year-old lawyer, publisher and author has not previously been on the front line of Catalan politics, he is nevertheless considered a separatist hardliner and an extension of Puigdemont". Their colleagues in Zurich at Neue Zürcher Zeitung have meanwhile opened a debate on the question "Do you consider Quim Torra to be the right man for Catalonia?".

Italy's Canal 7's television news chooses to emphasise Mariano Rajoy accepting to meet with Torra: