In Catalonia’s elections, held on 12 May, pro-independence parties lost the parliamentary majority that had allowed them to govern since 2015. It was their first electoral defeat in decades. They lost ...

Catalan protesters burned tyres at several points across the region's rail network on Friday morning, forcing widespread ...

It is crunch time in Catalonia as people gathered early on Sunday to vote in an independence referendum deemed illegal by Spanish authorities.Euronews_News When Catalans go to the polls on Sunday, ...

Catalonia's leader Artur Mas admits that he was not always a nationalist. But now he is pledging his political life to the cause of making his region independent from Spain. Observers wonder at how a ...

Citing a “lack of will” from the Socialists, separatist Junts’ party leader Carles Puigdemont said Sánchez had failed to ...

BARCELONA (Reuters) - Spain's Catalonia region holds an election on Sunday with big implications for the Socialist-led national government and a pro-independence movement rumbling for a decade. WHEN ...

Catalan independence supporters, one waving an "estelada", or Catalonia independence flag, applaud during a rally outside the city hall of Girona, Spain, Monday, Oct. 2, 2017. Spanish riot police ...

In the north-east of Spain sits the region of Catalonia, home to the city of Barcelona and a population of roughly 7.7 million. Despite being part of Spain since the 15th century, there has ...

Even if Catalonia achieved independence after its referendum, experts on the issue said at a lecture Wednesday that corruption would be difficult to stamp out, making a stable democracy unlikely in ...

As we noted on Monday, the Spanish government formally filed an appeal with the courts after Catalonia President Artur Mas signed a proclamation setting November 9 as the day for the vote on a ...

Catalonia is an autonomous region, but Spain could act to take control. — -- Catalonia's leader Carles Puigdemont has missed the deadline to offer a final answer on whether the region is ...