Tag: Catalonia

• Monday, September 29th 2014 - 08:15 UTC

  Spain's constitutional court to decide on Catalonia's referendum announcement

  

  Catalonia's president on Saturday formally called a referendum to decide whether Spain's richest region should be independent, defying Madrid which vowed to block the move. Shortly after Artur Mas set the vote for November 9, the Spanish government said the referendum would not take place because it was “unconstitutional”.

• Monday, September 22nd 2014 - 04:30 UTC

  Scottish lessons for the Falklands

  

  By Fernando Petrella - The dispute over the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands is unique. But Argentines can still draw lessons from the way Britain averted the prospect of Scottish independence.

• Monday, September 15th 2014 - 04:18 UTC

  The movements the Scotland independence vote has arousen in Europe

  

  In Europe's eastern half, the disintegration of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia created many new countries. In Western Europe, however, borders of the old nation states seemed to be carved in stone and although there have been secessionist tendencies, some of them militant, they never seemed to have a shot in reality, according to a Deutsche Welle report from Berlin.

• Friday, September 12th 2014 - 04:17 UTC

  With Scottish eyes and hearts, Catalonians pack the streets of Barcelona

  

  Hundreds of thousands of Catalans packed the streets of Barcelona on Thursday to demand the right to vote on a potential split from Spain, their ambitions boosted by an independence referendum scheduled for next week in Scotland.

• Friday, August 1st 2014 - 08:08 UTC

  Catalonia's independence referendum is on, underlines president Mas

  

  Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy and Catalan President Artur Mas failed to break the deadlock over Catalonia’s independence drive, with both holding firm on their positions when they met for the first time in a year.

• Wednesday, February 5th 2014 - 23:12 UTC

  Spain nervous with Catalonia says it will not interfere with Scotland's referendum

  

  Spain has no intention of interfering in Scotland’s push for independence and is willing to consider an eventual Scottish application to join the EU as a separate state, foreign minister García Margallo said in an interview with the Financial Times.

• Saturday, January 18th 2014 - 04:58 UTC

  Catalonia lawmakers have asked Madrid for a referendum on the region's future

  

  Lawmakers from the Spanish region of Catalonia voted to seek a referendum on breaking away from Spain on Thursday, setting themselves up for a battle with an implacably opposed central government in Madrid. The Catalan Parliament in Barcelona voted 87 to 43, with 3 abstentions, to send a petition to the national parliament seeking the power to call a popular vote on the region’s future.

• Friday, January 3rd 2014 - 06:02 UTC

  Catalonia president takes vote on independence case to EU heads of government

  

  Catalonia's president has called on European Union prime ministers for support as the region seeks a vote on independence in November this year, the source of an increasingly bitter fight with Spain's central government.

• Friday, December 13th 2013 - 13:14 UTC

  Madrid vows to block any independence referendum in Catalonia

  

  The Spanish government has vowed to block plans by parties in Catalonia to hold a referendum on independence on 9 November of next year. “The poll will not be held,” Justice Minister Alberto Ruiz-Gallardon told journalists moments after Catalonia's President, Artur Mas, announced a deal.

• Thursday, September 12th 2013 - 00:59 UTC

  Catalonia human chain demands Madrid a referendum on independence

  

  Hundreds of thousands of Catalans held hands in a 400-km human chain across their region to press the Spanish government to let them vote on breaking away and forming their own country.