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
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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Council has passed a motion condemning the Spanish monarch, Felipe VI, and reasserting support for the abolition of ‘an outdated and anti-democratic institution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
Police seize cocaine haul in banana cargo
Spanish police said Thursday they had seized over six tonnes of cocaine hidden in a shipment of bananas and arrested 16 suspects, some of them
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
Spain PM defends selling arms to Saudi
Spain’s Socialist prime minister defended Wednesday arms deliveries to Saudi Arabia despite an outcry over the murder of a Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, saying it
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
Focus: UK bids adios to Spanish nurses ‘betrayed’ by Brexit
Keeping a watchful eye over one patient for a 12-hour shift at the hospital where he learned his trade, Manuel Gala says Brexit has forced many