If “No taxation without representation” was the motto of the American Revolution, “Madrid nos roba” is the motto of Catalonia’s independence movement. The saying, which translates to ...
Catalonia delivers some public services already - schools and healthcare, for example. There'd be much more to set up in the event of independence, though. Border control. Customs. Proper ...
The view from Barcelona v Madrid Puigdemont's announcement - reaction and analysis Catalonia crisis: What are the options now? The referendum resulted in almost 90% of voters backing independence ...
In March, Spanish Foreign Minister Alfonso Dastis stopped short of supporting Saharawi independence, calling only for “a just political solution” to end the conflict there. Catalonia supports ...
And 80 per cent of those who took part in the poll said they would like Catalonia, the region around Barcelona, to be independent of Madrid. Scottish independence: Is IndyRef2 'dead' after ...
Catalonia should hold a new vote on independence from Spain within two years, the head of the region's government said on Thursday in a fresh challenge to Madrid following days of unrest by pro-se ...
But that, in turn, could jeopardise support for a Puigdemont government from Catalonia’s most vehement pro-independence party, the CUP.” Puigdemont told reporters today that he would like to ...
The Socialists of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez have won Catalonia's regional election as pro-independence parties lost ground. The Catalan Socialist Party (PSC), under former Spanish ...
Junts - which locked horns with Madrid over a failed 2017 bid to declare Catalonia's independence - has proven a thorny partner for the Socialist-led executive, arguing Madrid is chronically under ...
The SNP has made clear our opposition to the actions of the Spanish Government in relation to Catalonia following the referendum in October 2017 ... and has criticised the Spanish government’s ...