Puigdemont forms new platform: Crida Nacional
A year after threatening the unity of Spain with an attempt to declare independence, the former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont launched a new party on...
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No anniversary celebration of independence declaration
On 27 October 2017, pro-independence parties in Catalonia defied Spain and declared independence after a heated debate in parliament -a move that was immediately blocked...
Barcelona City Council: no to monarchy
Barcelona City Council has passed a motion condemning the Spanish monarch, Felipe VI, and reasserting support for the abolition of ‘an outdated and anti-democratic institution...
Focus: one year after Catalan independence bid
Catalonia‘s separatist movement appears split a year after the region’s fruitless declaration of independence from Spain, with some pressing ahead on an idealist path to...
Supreme Court orders trial of Catalan leaders
Spain’s Supreme Court on Thursday ordered 18 former Catalan leaders to stand trial over their role in last year’s declaration of independence. The trial is...
Rodrigo Rato starts jail term in Spain
Rodrigo Rato, Spain’s former deputy prime minister and ex-head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), entered jail on Thursday in Madrid, after being sentenced to four...
Council of the Republic to launch on 30 Oct
The Council of the Republic, the private body led by former president Carles Puigdemont to make the case for Catalan independence from abroad, will be...
One dead as 200 migrants reach Melilla
A migrant died Sunday and 19 others were hurt after around 200 people scaled a fence to enter Spain’s Melilla enclave from northern Morocco, local...
Podemos leader Iglesias to visit Junqueras in prison
The head of Spain’s leftwing Podemos party, Pablo Iglesias, has said he will visit the former Catalan vice president, Oriol Junqueras, in prison on Friday...
One year on, ‘Jordis’ remain in pre-trial jail
On 16 October 2017, Jordi Sànchez and Jordi Cuixart became the first pro-independence leaders in Catalonia to be sent to jail for helping organise a...
