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EUROPA PRESS
Ministry said, “Currently there are warnings against unnecessary tourist trips to Spain. But, from August 22, 2021, it no longer applies to the autonomous regions of the Asturias, Castilla-La Mancha, Catalonia, the Valencian Community and the Canary
Opinion
Mark Nayler
...ahead of Catalonia's National Day (Diada) tomorrow, it's a setback for the region's secessionists, who have repeatedly requested that external bodies such as the European Union and the Council of Europe, of which the ECHR is part, support their bid to ... break from Spain. The ECHR ruled that Spanish police violated no human rights in their treatment of voters throughout Catalonia on 1O. This seems to clash with the verdict of Human Rights Watch, an international monitoring organisation that conducted ... Catalonia's attempts to secede from the rest of Spain. Later text messages also seem to show Catalan separatists to be concerned about aggravating Russia: when Puigdemont expressed solidarity with the pro-democracy Belarusian opposition, his lawyer texted Alay
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There is still no agreement between nationalist parties in Catalonia to form a coalition government. Left-wing separatists ERC (Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya) are the biggest nationalist party but still cannot reach an agreement with the
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MELCHOR SÁIZ-PARDO
...incidence rate exceeds 3,000 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, levels never before seen in a pandemic in any group. In Castilla y León the rate is 3,591; Catalonia 3,374, Navarra 3,333 and Asturias 3,061 positive cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the last two ... moment, despite the generalised increase in hospital occupancy in the 19 regions, only Catalonia is deemed at an extreme risk situation, exceeding 25 per cent of those admitted to an ICU due to Covid.
Opinion
MARK NAYLER
In a speech on last Wednesday, Javier Faus, president of Catalonia's Economic Circle, expressed support for the pardons granted to leading Catalan separatists this week, adding "it's the moment to get to work... We have been paralysed for ten ... Catalonia. Top Catalan banks have long been nervous about secession. Two weeks after the illegal independence referendum of October 1 2017 (1-O), El País reported that, before an identical vote in November 2014, Sabadell president Josep Oliu spoke in ... private with Catalonia's then-president, Artur Mas. Oliu warned Mas that if his pro-independence government pursued secession, Sabadell would leave Catalonia. The paper's source claimed that Mas didn't take the warning seriously, partly because he was
LifeStyle
Jennie Rhodes
...the sites Nick's tours take in and a background to the working class history of Barcelona before the war. There is a section dedicated to George Orwell, whose famous book Homage to Catalonia is a personal account of the writer's time spent fighting
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ÁNGEL DE LOS RÍOS
Spain and a week ago the Berlin Government relaxed the measure to only five Spanish regions (the Asturias, Castilla-La Mancha, Catalonia, the Valencian region and the Canary Islands), leaving Andalucía out. According to the Robert Koch Institute, ... institute. In Spain as a whole, the cumulative incidence at seven days does not exceed 100 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in most regions, such as Madrid, the Balearic Islands or Catalonia. Germany is the second most important market for Spanish tourism,
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RAMÓN GORRIARÁN
Salvador Illa’s PSC party won Sunday's Catalonia elections with 23.4 per cent of the votes and tied 33 seats with the Esquerra Republicana (ERC). But it will be very difficult, if not impossible, for Spain’s former Minister of Health to govern, ... because the pro-independence forces together have reinforced their absolute majority in the Parliament of Catalonia. JxCat took 32 seats while Vox went from almost nothing, four years ago, to taking eleven seats in the 135-strong assembly. Meanwhile big ... losses were suffered by Ciudadanos (six seats) and the PP - who are left with just three. The autonomous elections in Catalonia registered the lowest turnout in history, with only a little more than 52 per cent of people eligible to vote making their
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Voters in Catalonia go to the polls on Sunday in regional elections called after the separatist ruling coalition collapsed. The mainstream Socialist party, under ex-Health minister Salvador Illa, could emerge the biggest party. Still unclear is
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MIGUEL ÁNGEL ALFONSO
Carolina Darias has taken up the reigns at Spain’s Ministry of Health just days after the country recorded the worst weekend of the entire pandemic during the third wave of the virus. Salvador Illa quit his top post at the height of the pandemic to