Axed Catalan president Carles Puigdemont, flanked by former Catalan Health minister Antoni Comin (L) and former Catalan Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Food Meritxell Serret (R), reacts after the results of the regional elections in Catalonia at the Square - Brussels Meeting Centre in Brussels on December 21, 2017. Catalan separatists won a crucial snap poll on December 22, 2017, plunging their region into further uncertainty after a failed independence bid rattled Europe and t