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Plans to appoint a new president of the Catalan government have taken a step backwards in the last week after the speaker of the regional parliament suspended the expected debate and vote last Monday on the candidacy of Jordi Sànchez. Last Friday, 9
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Two people were killed and a third seriously injured on Thursday morning when they were caught in an avalanche in the Spanish Pyrenees. The accident happened near the popular ski region of Val de Arán in Catalonia, rescue workers said. The victims
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NEIL HESKETH
...coast, where pro-independence supporters are in a minority. This area corresponds roughly to the proposed new region of Tabarnia, a breakaway area from Catalonia where people remain loyal to Spain. The area has its own flag and identity and is ... real, movement in Catalonia that supports independence from Spain. What started as a joke spread rapidly over social media, showing signs of turning into a real movement. Last Sunday, 4 March some 15,000 people marched in Barcelona in favour of the new
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The Supreme Court has said that Catalan separatist and civic leader, Jordi Sànchez, is unable to leave jail to attend an investiture debate, planned for Friday (today), as candidate to be new president of Catalonia. The Catalan parliament had agreed
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Mark Nayler
PP has been dealt a fresh blow over Catalonia, which in turn will prolong the budget fiasco. Economic and political factors have combined to create a perfect storm around the Spanish Conservatives. Political problems are delaying the proposed 2018 ... approves the PP's delayed spending plan. Yet the PNV is unmoved by Madrid's offer of extra cash: it will only approve the budget if Rajoy removes centralised control of Catalonia, which he imposed at the height of the Catalan crisis last October. Rajoy ... cannot relinquish control of Catalonia, though, until the Catalan parliament forms a workable new administration. The region's former, pro-independence president Carles Puigdemont was released on bail in Germany last week, after German courts ruled he
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ALFONSO TORICES
Catalonia and Aragón going back over two decades. They used to be in the Sijena monastery in Aragón but were sold between 1983 and 1994 to Catalan museums. These sales were subsequently declared illegal, but despite handing back some lesser value pieces, ... Catalonia hasn't been decided.
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People across Catalonia went to the polling stations for a regional election yesterday in what many observers were calling the most important vote in Spain in the forty years since democracy was restored. On going to press polls were just closing
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Mark Nayler
Estimates for the potential cost to Spain of the Catalonia crisis are like those of Brexit for the UK: in both cases, the figures are constantly changing, depending on what side of the argument they're coming from. The latest forecast regarding the ... concerned that the Catalan issue is far from being resolved. It was probably also intended as a frightening statistic, one that will further encourage independence parties in Catalonia to unite and form the region's next government. Compared to estimates ... Total cost in that case? Up to 27 billion euros and the possibility of a recession in Catalonia. In other words, the Bank's most optimistic prediction for the cost of the Catalonia issue - based on assumptions that have since been proved false - was
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An estimated 45,000 people marched in Brussels on Thursday in support of Catalan independence. Protesters were seeking to raise awareness across Europe of their demands and what they see as repression from Spain. So far the European Union, based i
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FRANCISCO GRIÑÁN
...regarding independence for Catalonia was one of the factors they took into account, although the producer of Fresco Film, Peter Welter Soler, makes it clear that it wasn't relevant to the final decision. “Barcelona is a major audiovisual market, so what