Articles tagged with: spain

10 December 2019 02:32 PM

Negotiation teams from the Socialists (right) and Esquerra meet in the surroundings of Barcelona (by Guillem Roset)

Government talks advance as Spain’s Socialists and pro-independence ERC meet in Barcelona

Third encounter cools down prospects of deal before Christmas

Politics

05 December 2019 02:17 PM

Catalan protesters urge Spain's acting president Pedro Sánchez to engage in talks over self-determination (by Norma Vidal)

Spain’s Socialists walk tightrope in government talks with pro-independence parties

Esquerra threatens with leaving negotiation table after controversial remarks from acting president Pedro Sánchez

Politics

03 December 2019 04:02 PM

Socialist lawmakers cheer colleague Meritxell Batet as she is reelected as speaker of the Spanish congress (by Javier Barbancho)

How Catalan MPs took the Constitutional oath in congress

Controversy over pro-independence MPs asking for "freedom for political prisoners" and for "the Catalan republic"

Politics

26 November 2019 08:14 PM

Protesters stand behind a banner that reads “Enough repression, freedom!” (by Norma Vidal)

69 Argentinian dignitaries ask for end of Spain's 'repression' on Catalonia

Led by Nobel Peace Prize awarded Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, they have signed manifesto calling for "dialogue" in order to put an end to independence crisis

Society

22 November 2019 04:52 PM

Author Paul Engler in an interview with the Catalan News Agency (by Alan Ruiz Terol)

Paul Engler on Spain’s handling of the Catalan crisis: ‘I would expect that from a dictatorship’

The author visits Barcelona to present ‘This Is An Uprising,’ an exploration of civil resistance throughout history

Politics

21 November 2019 12:59 PM

Image of a citizen casting their ballot in Lleida, western Catalonia, during the May 26, 2019 election (by Laura Alcalde)

Half of Spaniards outside Catalonia would accept result of agreed referendum, says poll

70% of Catalans want to see independence vote, with 57% residents in rest of Spain against

Politics

15 November 2019 07:11 PM

Catalan parliament speaker Roger Torrent at the Francophonie Parliamentary Assembly in Switzerland (by Alan Ruiz Terol)

Other parliaments 'don't understand why Forcadell's in prison,' says speaker

From global summit of legislative assemblies in Switzerland, Catalan parliament president says representatives are puzzled why his predecessor was jailed

Politics