MADRID: Spanish judges ordered Catalan lawmakers Thursday to suspend a planned session that could see the region declare independence as the national government rejected calls for mediation in a volatile standoff.

The social and economic stakes of Spain's deepest political crisis in a generation mounted as banks planned to shift their domiciles from the region and rival footballers weighed in.

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