Catalonia working to make Barcelona-Tokyo direct flight a reality
Minister of Foreign Affairs predicts that relations with Japan will take "definitive step forward" in 2024
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Politics news from Catalonia and Barcelona
Catalonia to reduce personal income tax for 2.6 million taxpayers
IRPF cut will benefit citizens earning €33,000 or less per year
Salvadoran diplomat supervises talks between Spain's Socialists and pro-independence Junts
Francisco Galindo Vélez oversees first meeting in Switzerland "in cordial and working atmosphere"
First legal case suspended in anticipation of amnesty law
Pro-independence protesters who blocked AVE high-speed rail in Girona see case pushed back
Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue in Switzerland will mediate Junts-Socialist talks
Independent institution acts as intermediary for conflicts around the world and announced ETA's disbandment in 2018
Government to sign bilateral agreement with Kyoto, first of its kind between Catalonia and Japan
Foreign affairs department aims for Japanese delegation office to be up and running in first half of 2024
Israel recalls its ambassador to Spain after PM Sánchez criticizes Gaza operation
Pedro Sánchez said he doubts Netanyahu's government is respecting international law
Spain's top judicial body opposes Government's attorney general candidate for first time
Decision of General Council of the Judiciary is not binding, and Álvaro García Ortiz will be reappointed
Catalan president and Spanish PM to meet on December 21
Pere Aragonès' executive hopes first meeting after Sánchez's investiture will be a working meeting
Catalan, Basque and Galician parties sign decree saying Spanish king 'has no democratic legitimacy'
Pro-independence parties avoid monarch's ceremony opening upper and lower houses
Catalan president launches campaign in Seoul to promote Catalonia and attract investment
Pere Aragonès holds "exchange of experiences" in emergency management with Incheon mayor
Spanish Congress to debate proposed amnesty law December 12
The law could be approved in the lower house by the end of the year or early 2024
Chief EU diplomat warns Israel that 'one horror doesn't justify another'
Union for the Mediterranean summit closes with "broad consensus" to achieve peace in Gaza with two-state solution
Catalonia opens new government delegation in South Korea
President Aragonès 'great leap forward' in foreign policy with Asian office inauguration
Thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators march in Barcelona amid four-day Gaza ceasefire
Protest comes shortly after minor diplomatic crisis between Israel and Spain
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