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September 2019

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Spain moving nearer to elections again on 10 November

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Despite winning the 28 April general election, acting Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez‘s Socialist (PSOE) party has still not found enough support in the Spanish Congress to
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600,000 rally for independence on ‘La Diada’, say Barcelona police

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Some 600,000 people, according to figures from Barcelona’s local police (the Guàrdia Urbana), filled central Barcelona around the Plaça d’Espanya on Wednesday evening for the
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Sánchez hopes ‘La Diada’ will be celebration of all Catalans, ‘not only some of them’

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Spain’s acting Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, has said that the Catalan pro-independence camp has seized the Catalan National Day (La Diada). Referring to the celebration
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‘We will persist’ say pro-referendum parties on Catalonia’s ‘La Diada’

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As Catalonia’s National Day (La Diada) got underway on Wednesday, leading political figures in the pro-independence movement took advantage to restate their determination to see
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PP MPs defend Spanish democracy in ‘Le Monde’

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Spain’s right-wing People’s Party (PP) has responded to the 52 French MPs who called for an end to the ‘repression’ of Catalan pro-independence leaders. In an
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EU court says Spain’s mortgage pricing could be abusive

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Spanish banks could end up paying out billions of euros in compensation following a statement from the advocate general of the Court of Justice of
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Seven years of pro-independence rallies during Catalonia’s ‘La Diada’

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Catalonia’s pro-independence supporters are planning a huge rally this Wednesday 11 September to again coincide with La Diada (Catalonia’s National Day). It will also be a test