Tag: Soraya Saenz de Santamaria

• Tuesday, October 31st 2017 - 07:21 UTC

  Catalonia returns to normal; sacked president Puigdemont in Belgium

  

  Sacked Catalan President Carles Puigdemont has gone to Belgium, a lawyer he has hired there says. The lawyer, Paul Bekaert, did not comment on reports that Puigdemont could be preparing an asylum claim.

• Tuesday, October 17th 2017 - 11:41 UTC

  Madrid tells Catalonia's leader he has until Thursday to comply with Spanish law

  

  Spain’s deputy prime minister has said that Catalonia’s leader did not give an adequate response in his letter about the region’s independence and has until Thursday to comply with the country’s laws. Carles Puigdemont’s letter, issued two hours before a Monday deadline, did not clarify whether he in fact declared Catalonia’s independence from Spain. He called for talks with Spain’s government.

• Saturday, October 14th 2017 - 08:30 UTC

  Catalonia's leader under mounting pressure from separatist allies and Madrid

  

  Catalonia’s leader faced mounting pressure on Friday from all sides, with hardliners in the separatist movement demanding he declare independence from Spain once and for all. Spain’s government and the European Union, on the other hand, want him to abandon the secession plans altogether.

• Wednesday, October 4th 2017 - 07:02 UTC

  Catalonia expected to declare independence in matter of days; King says situation is extremely serious and calls for unity

  

  Catalonia will declare independence from Spain in a matter of days, the leader of the autonomous region has told the BBC. In his first interview since Sunday's referendum, Carles Puigdemont said his government would “act at the end of this week or the beginning of next”.

• Tuesday, December 15th 2015 - 06:41 UTC

  Spain's Rajoy expected to win next Sunday's election but without a majority

  

  The latest surveys on the Spanish legislative elections to be held next Sunday, predict a victory for the ruling center-right People's Party, or PP, but without an absolute majority, so the party will have to form a coalition to establish a government.

• Tuesday, August 4th 2015 - 05:27 UTC

  Catalonia challenges Madrid: calls elections for September, ahead of Spain's national ballot in November

  

  The leader of Spain's wealthy Catalonia region President signed a decree on Monday calling parliamentary elections for 27 September, a year earlier than necessary and according to political analysts, a proxy vote on the much debated controversial independence.

• 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”.

• Sunday, October 13th 2013 - 11:42 UTC

  Madrid furious with Gibraltar “lack of respect” towards Spanish law enforcement agencies

  

  The storm of protest in Spain over Gibraltar Chief Minister Fabian Picardo’s speech to the UN this week showed no sign of letting up with a fresh round of political complaints and even the threat of legal action, according to the Gibraltar Chronicle.

• Friday, September 6th 2013 - 00:26 UTC

  UK minister says Gibraltar dispute ‘could cloud bilateral relationship with Spain’

  

  Britain’s relationship with Spain could be damaged by the ongoing dispute over Gibraltar, Europe Minister David Lidington warned. Lidington told the Financial Times there was a danger the row would overshadow all other parts of the Anglo-Spanish relationship. “There is clearly a risk that this will cloud the bilateral relationship,” he said.

• Wednesday, April 10th 2013 - 21:56 UTC

  Spanish police to shield politicians’ residences from home eviction victims

  

  Spanish police will erect barriers around politicians' residences to shield them from protests over the growing number of home evictions and to call for changes to mortgage laws.