The new movements by Carles Puigdemont have again put the Catalan independence process at the centre of world media attention. This has been clear since early this morning, when a large crowd of journalists were waiting expectantly outside Copenhagen airport for the president to arrive from Belgium, which he hadn't left in three months.
Newspapers from around the world, like the British Financial Times, the French Libération, Belgian BTRF and even Asian outlets like Channel NewsAsia and Arab News have covered the story.
Puigdemont leaving Belgium, with the possibility of him being arrested if Supreme Court judge Pablo Llarena reactivated the European Arrest Warrant, meant the trip attracted international media from around the globe. The trip also coincided with the new speaker of the Catalan Parliament, Roger Torrent, proposing Puigdemont as candidate to the presidency, a development which, if anything, made more headlines.
Der Spiegel and FT see Puigdemont invested president
"Catalan crisis rekindled as parliament proposes Puigdemont as leader" is how British news agency Reuters summarises the day.
In Germany, Der Spiegel, says Puigdemont being put forward for a presidential investiture debate is "news Madrid won't like". They write that "Puigdemont could soon again manage the government business in Catalonia".
The Financial Times (paywall), meanwhile, believe that "the political crisis in Catalonia gained fresh momentum on Monday", after Puigdemont was proposed as a presidential candidate. The newspaper notes that Madrid opposes his investiture, and that the courts could overturn it, but they believe it's probable that Puigdemont will win the vote in the chamber where pro-independence parties have a majority. That said, they note that "parliamentary rules demand that the new leader present the government political programme 'in front of the house'".
Also to summarise an intense day was the French newspaper Le Figaro. They say that the decision by judge Llarena caused "surprise" and meant that Puigdemont could "travel calmly" to Denmark.
France 24, meanwhile, sees Puigdemont's trip as part of a "communications strategy" based on "surfing the limits of Spanish justice". They believe that he's trying to use it as a way to "stage the formalisation of his candidature to the presidency" and to "relegate the legal roadblocks (...) to the background of the public debate".