Catalan election campaigns underway – as jailed leaders seek amnesty
Campaigning is now well underway for the elections in Catalonia due to be held on 14 February, after the date was finally confirmed by Spain’s High Court in...
Esquerra Republicana (ERC)
Health minister to head socialist party in Catalan elections – and Cs party MP moves to PP
Spain’s current health minister Salvador Illa will become the socialist PSOE party’s presidential candidate in the elections to be held in Catalonia on 14 February. It comes...
Spanish government secures 2021 Budget with ample majority
Spain’s left-leaning PSOE–Podemos coalition government led by Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez secured passing its first budget in the Spanish Congress on Thursday, with 54% of the votes...
Spanish Congress votes to extend ‘State of Alarm’ until 9 May 2021
Latest: Coronavirus in Spain figures (15 Feb) Also read: Details of curfews & restrictions for all regions of Spain during ‘State of Alarm’ The Spanish...
Catalonia celebrates low-key ‘Diada’ with de-centralised events
Catalonia commemorates today (11 September) as its National Day – La Diada Nacional de Catalunya – marking the fall of Barcelona in the War of the Spanish Succession...
Barcelona City Council withdraws top honour from Juan Carlos I
Barcelona City Council has voted to withdraw the Gold Medal top honour that was awarded to Spain’s former king Juan Carlos I back in 1992, the year of...
Political fallout as former king ‘fleeing justice’ puts Spanish monarchy in ‘very compromised position’
If Spain’s current king, Felipe VI, had hoped that the image and reputation of the Spanish Monarchy would improve following the decision of his father, former king...
Seven of nine jailed Catalan leaders have ‘low category’ prison status revoked
Of the nine Catalan pro-independence politicians and activists who were jailed for between 9-13 years by Spain’s Supreme Court on 14 October 2019, seven have had their...
Phone of Catalan Parliament speaker ‘targeted by state-level spyware’, claims joint investigation
The phone of the Catalan Parliament speaker, Roger Torrent, together with two other Catalan pro-independence activists, was targeted using spyware that experts say is only sold to governments...
Spanish Congress votes to extend ‘state of alarm’ for final time, until 21 June
The Spanish Congress has voted to extend the current ‘state of alarm’ in Spain for a final time until 21 June. There were 177 votes in...
