Valls attacks literature award winner over ‘political prisoners’
Manuel Valls, a candidate to be mayor of Barcelona, attacked a Catalan literature award winner on Sunday evening after he criticised the imprisonment of pro-independence political
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Opposition calls for 155, Torra a ‘public danger’
The two main opposition parties in Spain, the People’s Party (PP) and Ciudadanos (Cs), insist Catalonia must be stripped of its self-government again. Both parties
Quim Torra urges ‘credible, honest and bold dialogue’
The president of the Catalan government, Quim Torra, urged the Spanish government to start ‘credible, honest and bold dialogue’ with Catalonia in order to find a
Catalonia to exit regional liquidity fund in 2019
Catalonia will exit the Regional Liquidity Fund (FLA) in January 2019, according to the Catalan government’s vice president and economy minister, Pere Aragonès. The fund
Court investigates Catalan public media over referendum
A court investigating the Catalan referendum of 1 October 2017 has summoned the directors of Catalan public media. The head of the Catalan public television
Sánchez dismisses Torra’s ‘monologue’ document
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has closed the door to negotiating a 21-point document put forward by the Catalan president Quim Torra during their meeting
Six Catalan defendants transferred to lower court
Spain’s Supreme Court has transferred the case of six Catalan politicians accused of helping organise last October’s independence referendum to a lower court, following their appeals.
‘Medium’ credibility alert of terror attack in Barcelona
The Catalan police, Mossos d’Esquadra, has received an alert of a possible terror attack in Barcelona which gives ‘medium’ credibility, according to the Catalan News
A possible Sánchez-Torra ‘mini-summit’
The Spanish and Catalan governments could convene on Friday as Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and his ministers travel to Barcelona, where they will hold
Public media telethon raises over €10.7m for cancer
The Catalan public broadcaster TV3 and Catalunya Ràdio station raised over 10.7m euros in the fight against cancer in one day through their annual telethon, called La Maratò.
