Tag: Cataluña
CUP coup in Cataluña
RADICAL anti-establishment group CUP yesterday (Thursday) announced it would no longer support JxC separatist regional president Quim Torra.
Torra requires the support of his own...
Bitter-sweet victory
For the first time ever a non-nationalist party has won the regional elections in Cataluña. Ciudadanos led by Inés Arrimadas was the choice of...
Catalan vote favours segregationists
Political clouds will continue over Cataluña following today's (Thursday) regional elección in which pro-independency parties have obtained an overall majority.
With practically all votes processed...
Cataluña goes to decisive vote
Poll stations in Cataluña open at 09.00 today (Thursday) for the decisive regional election that could see the end of the segregation crisis -...
Thanks Mrs May
PM Mariano Rajoy once again thanked his British counterpart Theresa May for her support in the Catalan crisis during his visit to Number 10...
Theresa May ‘will not acknowledge’ Catalan independence
British PM Theresa May told her Spanish counterpart Mariano Rajoy today (Tuesday) that she 'will not acknowledge'' an independent Cataluña. A statement released this...
Puigdemont ambiguity continues
Catalan president Carles Puigdemont has replied evasively to central government's demand for a straight answer over whether or not he declared independency last week.
The...
Ultimatum for Catalan president
PM Mariano Rajoy has given Catalan president Puigdemont until Monday to clarify if he yesterday (Tuesday) declared unilateral independence for Cataluña or not. The...
Cataluña’s one minute of independence
Cataluña was independent for one minute this evening (Tuesday, October 10). Regional president Puigdemont addressed the Catalan Parliament to 'declare the independence of Cataluña...
Independence Day for Cataluña?
Catalán regional president Carles Puigdemont is expected to declare unilateral Catalan independence (in some form that has not yet been disclosed) when he addresses...
Foreign Office advises on traveling to Cataluña
The British Foreign Office has issued a warning for visitors to Cataluña to be cautious, but it does not recomend not to travel to...
Banks lead companies moving out of Cataluña
The decision taken yesterday (Thursday) evening by the two main Cataluña-based banks, Caixabank and Sabadell, to move their fiscal addresses to the Balearics and...
Sabadell bank moves to Alicante
The Banco Sabadell board of directors has this evening (Thursday) approved to move its fiscal address from Cataluña to Alicante due to the concerns...
Cataluña in crisis
“WE ARE going to declare independence 48 hours after all the votes are in and the results are official.”
These were the words of the...