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Catalan leaders meet in Brussels

Catalonia's former leader says he will stand for re-election as regional president, despite risking arrest if he returns to Spain.

24/01/2018

World News

Carles Puigdemont's trip sparks Spanish anger

Catalonia's fugitive ex-president Carles Puigdemont avoids arrest but sparks Spanish anger on a trip to Denmark.

22/01/2018

Spain

Fictional Tabarnia is officially a movement

The satire group that seeks to secede the fictional region of Tabarnia from Catalonia is now pushing for real action

17/01/2018

Spain

Catalonia's separatist parties nominate ousted leader to head new gove

Madrid braces itself for the first session of Catalonia's newly elected parliament

17/01/2018

Spain

Mas quits party leadership and fires Catalonian independence warning

Former Catalonian president says failure to score more than 50% in election means independence best kept off the agenda in the short term.

09/01/2018

Spain

Puigdemont urges Spain to accept Catalan election results

Catalonia's ousted leader made the appeal in an end-of-year address from self-imposed exile in Brussels

30/12/2017

World News

Mariano Rajoy: new Catalan parliament will convene in new year

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, making his year-end address at the Moncloa Palace in Madrid, says he hopes Catalan's new parliament will usher in a period of stability

29/12/2017

Spain

Tabarnia: The new Catalan secessionist movement boosted by Twitter

Tabarnia may seem like an anomaly: the sub-region wants to secede from Catalonia, but remain in Spain.

27/12/2017

World News

Catalonia: Carles Puigdemont demands to return home

"Let me come back", Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont tells Spain.

23/12/2017

World News

What now for Catalonia?

Catalans give their reaction to the region's inconclusive election result.

22/12/2017

Spain

Madrid considers its next move after Catalonian elections

Spain's capital is benefiting from a boom in tourism as numbers fall in Catalonia but the Economy Ministry predicts the separatist crisis will cost the country billions

22/12/2017

Spain

Watch live: Spain's PM Rajoy speaks about Catalan election results

The prime minister also ruled out a national election as he addressed the country a day after separatist parties won the Catalan regional vote

22/12/2017

World News

Catalan leader Puigdemont in Brussels calls on Madrid to start talks a

Deposed Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont says Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy must find "another way to solve the crisis as his plan is not working"

22/12/2017

Belgium

Time to go home? Exiled Catalan separatists celebrate

From self-exile in Brussels, ousted Catalan leaders say the victory of pro-independence parties in Thursday's snap election gives them the right to be heard.

22/12/2017

Spain

What we learned from the Catalan election

From victories for Puigdemont and Ciudadanos, to a record voter turnout and defeat for Rajoy

22/12/2017

Spain

Live: Pro-independence parties claim victory in Catalan election

The separatist movement has achieved a majority in parliament, while the pro-unity Ciudadanos are the largest single party

21/12/2017

Spain

Carles Puigdemont: the Catalan leader who won't take 'no' for an answe

The deposed Catalan president stands on the brink of gaining backing from his electorate for his go-it-alone policy that some say will break up Spain.

21/12/2017

Spain

Voters in Catalonia express their hopes and expectations

Euronews spoke to people who queued up to vote in Thursday's election in Catalonia

21/12/2017

Spain

Crucial Catalan election too close to call

As Catalans decide whether to vote for pro or anti-independence parties in today's regional election the result remains too close to call.

21/12/2017

World

Catalonia: A divided campaign

The electoral campaign in Catalonia has been an unusual one with several separatist leaders in exile or in jail. Reflecting the deep division in Catalan society

19/12/2017