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ANDREW J. LINN
...she was not alone, so left the tray at the door. The next morning Marilyn was found dead. The intrepid ex-waiter returned to Spain in 1962 to fulfil his lifelong ambition of making wine. He found a vineyard in Catalonia's Penedés region and bought
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...by Catalonia last October. Up to now the presiding judge had only been considering the evidence, although most had been in prison to prevent escape or reoffending. Others, including the former president himself who is in Germany, had been continuing
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When the earlier four nominations were made, central government refused to ratify the appointments or lift the suspension of some of Catalonia's devolved powers. Despite initially saying he would take Madrid to court, Torra changed plans and agreed to ... appoint a regional cabinet untainted by pro-independence legal action. This paves the way for all of Catalonia's devolved powers to be restored at last. The decision comes against the backdrop of the planned no-confidence vote against the national ... government in Madrid, a motion that Catalan separatist MPs have supported in the belief that there may be a softer policy on Catalonia from any new incoming prime minister. Torra was expected to travel soon to Berlin to meet self-exiled former president
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The former Catalan leaders in jail awaiting trial have been allowed to move from prisons near Madrid to Catalonia. On Wednesday six of the nine were taken to two jails closer to their homes. The new Socialist government, led by Pedro Sánchez, ... agreed to the move in response to criticism from pro-independence politicians and in an effort to improve relations with Catalonia. The prisoners are being held over their alleged part in the illegal declaration of independence last October and on ... the new PM to discuss Catalonia on Monday.
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...failure of the new Catalan leader to swear allegiance to the constitution and King Felipe VI. The Spanish flag was also nowhere to be seen. Now there is an official regional president, the suspension of some of Catalonia's devolved powers by Madrid, ... for Catalonia was put on hold last October after the regional parliament voted on an illegal declaration of independence and was then dissolved by Madrid.
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Mark Nayler
It was reputedly Einstein who defined insanity as doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting different results each time - a definition that seems appropriate when applied to the more radical separatists in Catalonia. For the second time since ... exacerbate the economic damage already sustained by Catalonia since 1-O, but it's not only for that reason that separatists should stop nominating problematic candidates for the presidency. It's also to demonstrate they haven't lost touch with the political ... realities of their situation. Puigdemont is one of three separatist candidates who have been unsuccessfully nominated since Mariano Rajoy called a snap election in Catalonia last December (in which pro-independence parties gained a slim parliamentary
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Pedro Sánchez's minority PSOE government secured its first parliamentary success this week when it reached agreement with enough other political parties for a new board of directors at RTVE. A softer stance on Catalonia helped get Catalan
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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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Mark Nayler
Who exactly paid for the independence referendum held in Catalonia on October 1st last year? This was the question raised by Spain's budget minister Cristóbal Montoro in an interview with the Spanish daily El Mundo on Monday. The Popular Party ... politician - whose 2018 spending plan has yet to be approved - has made two puzzling and almost-contradictory claims about how last October's independence referendum in Catalonia was funded. Montoro told El Mundo that he didn't know where the money to ... finance the Catalan independence referendum had come from. The Spanish government has had direct control of Catalonia since last October's divisive plebiscite - plenty of time, surely, to pore over the region's books and establish how Catalan separatists
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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