Spanish government and Catalan leaders in fresh talks
Spain’s deputy prime minister met Catalan pro-independence leaders on Thursday as both sides pursue complex talks on the region’s future initiated by Prime Minister Pedro
Spanish Government
Sánchez seeks Catalan support for budget
Spain’s Socialist government has presented its draft 2019 Budget, and which will start parliamentary procedures on Monday – but whether it will succeed remains far from certain.
Catalan government offers port to welcome 49 refugees
The Catalan government has offered ports in Catalonia to welcome the 49 immigrants and refugees who have been at sea for over two weeks, waiting
Spain’s PP apologises for PM death tweet
Spain’s People’s Party (PP) was left embarrassed on Saturday after posting a video on Twitter suggesting it wished Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez dead, drawing
Spanish jobless figure drops to 3.2m
Spanish jobless queues were shorter in 2018, even for the worst-affected youth, though the country still counts 3.2 million people as unemployed, the labour ministry
Franco mausoleum’s prior vetoes exhumation
The prior of the mausoleum where Spain’s fascist dictator Francisco Franco is buried has rejected any exhumation of his remains, the Spanish government said on
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
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
