By studying this trace I found out that the problem had something to do with writing out the Scenario Summary. I tried to explicitly put the --lang=en on my command - and it helped. But why on earth should this be necessary??
Exception trace:
() at /Users/vanille/Behat/vendor/symfony/translation/Symfony/Component/Translation/Loader/XliffFileLoader.php:127
Symfony\Component\Translation\Loader\XliffFileLoader->parseFile() at /Users/vanille/Behat/vendor/symfony/translation/Symfony/Component/Translation/Loader/XliffFileLoader.php:43
Symfony\Component\Translation\Loader\XliffFileLoader->load() at /Users/vanille/Behat/vendor/symfony/translation/Symfony/Component/Translation/Translator.php:256
Symfony\Component\Translation\Translator->doLoadCatalogue() at /Users/vanille/Behat/vendor/symfony/translation/Symfony/Component/Translation/Translator.php:238
Symfony\Component\Translation\Translator->loadCatalogue() at /Users/vanille/Behat/vendor/symfony/translation/Symfony/Component/Translation/Translator.php:207
Symfony\Component\Translation\Translator->transChoice() at /Users/vanille/Behat/vendor/behat/behat/src/Behat/Behat/Formatter/ConsoleFormatter.php:301
Behat\Behat\Formatter\ConsoleFormatter->translateChoice() at /Users/vanille/Behat/vendor/behat/behat/src/Behat/Behat/Formatter/ProgressFormatter.php:297
Behat\Behat\Formatter\ProgressFormatter->printScenariosSummary() at /Users/vanille/Behat/vendor/behat/behat/src/Behat/Behat/Formatter/ProgressFormatter.php:281
Behat\Behat\Formatter\ProgressFormatter->printSummary() at /Users/vanille/Behat/vendor/behat/behat/src/Behat/Behat/Formatter/PrettyFormatter.php:906
Behat\Behat\Formatter\PrettyFormatter->printSuiteFooter() at /Users/vanille/Behat/vendor/behat/behat/src/Behat/Behat/Formatter/PrettyFormatter.php:157
Behat\Behat\Formatter\PrettyFormatter->afterSuite() at n/a:n/a