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Muted ‘Diada’ rallies underline loss of political strength of Catalan independence movement

News Desk12th September 202417th September 2024

12th September 202417th September 20243501

Catalan independence supporters on Wednesday marked ‘La Diada’ – the National Day of Catalonia – but with the pro-independence parties deeply divided and out of...

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Over 100,000 rally in Barcelona for Catalan independence on the ‘Diada’

News Desk12th September 202117th September 2021

12th September 202117th September 20213124

Over 100,000 people took to the streets in Barcelona on Saturday afternoon, marking the 10th year in a row that a huge pro-independence rally has...

Catalonia celebrates low-key ‘Diada’ with de-centralised events

News Desk13th September 202016th September 2020

13th September 202016th September 20203090

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...

One weekend, two opposite protests

Newsdesk / ACN26th October 201930th October 2019

26th October 201930th October 20192874

This weekend in Barcelona will see two separate protests that define the conflict between those who want an independent Catalonia, or at least the chance...

600,000 rally for independence on ‘La Diada’, say Barcelona police

Newsdesk / ACN11th September 201912th September 2022

11th September 201912th September 20222413

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...

Sánchez hopes ‘La Diada’ will be celebration of all Catalans, ‘not only some of them’

Newsdesk / ACN11th September 201915th September 2019

11th September 201915th September 20191825

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...

‘We will persist’ say pro-referendum parties on Catalonia’s ‘La Diada’

Newsdesk / ACN11th September 201918th September 2019

11th September 201918th September 20192315

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...

PP MPs defend Spanish democracy in ‘Le Monde’

Newsdesk / ACN11th September 201916th September 2019

11th September 201916th September 20192099

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...

Seven years of pro-independence rallies during Catalonia’s ‘La Diada’

Newsdesk / ACN10th September 201913th September 2019

10th September 201913th September 20192994

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...

Jailed and exiled Catalan leaders call for mass turnout on ‘La Diada’

Newsdesk / ACN9th September 201911th September 2019

9th September 201911th September 20192522

The 16 jailed and exiled Catalan political and civic leaders have called for an ‘exceptional mobilisation’ this Wednesday 11 September, the Catalan National Day (‘La...

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