Catalan Left split over independence referendum route
• En Comú boycotts meeting, Podemos affiliate won’t support unilateral plebiscite • Socialists remain firm against referendum, ERC & CUP support unilateral…
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Police search homes of former Catalan president Pujol
• One day after Pujol’s son jailed, prosecutors focus on former Catalan president • Pujol clan investigated for money-laundering, tax fraud via…
Court suspends Catalan budget for referendum funding
• ‘Tribunal Constitucional’ unanimously suspends budget for up to five months • Court issues warns Puigdemont, 18 others to desist or risk…
Oxfam event funds clean water, fight against hunger
• More than 2,100 walkers raise 730,000 euros in 100-km trek through Catalonia • Additional Oxfam Intermón Trailwalker events planned for Vitoria,…
Podem pulls out of Colau-backed coalition party
• One week after unity accord, Podemos affiliate pulls out of coalition process • Podem dissident faction’s entry in coalition leadership elections…
Court bars Homs from Congress over independence vote
• Supreme Court fines, bars Catalan politician from public office for two years • Catalan Parlament defies gov’t and Court, funds another…
Podem agrees to join united Catalan progressive party
• Podem to join Barcelona en Comú, other parties in progressive formation • Move will transform En Comú Podem electoral coalition into…
Barcelona’s Colau calls for united Catalan Left
• Barcelona mayor tells ‘En Comú Podem’ activists it’s time for Left to unite • Colau promotes new regional leftwing party to…
Mas fined, barred from office over Catalan referendum
• Mas found guilty of promoting unconstitutional independence referendum • Former Catalan president fined, barred from public office for two years In…
Podemos rejects unilateral Catalan referendum
• EnComúPodem calls for new elections rather than go-it-alone plebiscite • 59pct of Catalans want accord with central gov’t over independence vote…
Barcelona triples budget to aid city’s homeless
• City will spend 15 million euros over next 3 years to combat homelessness • Nearly 950 homeless sleep on Barcelona streets…
#VIDEO: 73,500 sign petition against ‘correbous’
• PACMA calls on Catalonia, Valencia to end bull-running, bull-baiting festivals • Party presents veterinary report showing suffering, injuries caused animals ►…
Millions of Spanish households risk energy cutoffs
• Grandmother’s death in apartment fire raises level of ire over energy poverty • Activists say utility companies emboldened by court ruling…
Catalonia drops psychiatric test for transexuals
• Move announced as part of region’s desire to ‘de-pathologise’ transexuality • Special unit set up in Barcelona to handle all gender…
Catalans defy Supreme Court ruling on bullfighting
• Supreme Court ruling says 2010 Catalan law cannot ban bullfighting altogether • Regional government vows strict regulations to make bullfighting impossible…
PSC leadership race: It’s ‘No’ to Rajoy, whoever wins
• Current leader Iceta faces off against Gramanet mayor Parlón in tight race • Both candidates pledge to reverse PSC’s decade-long slide…
Not everyone in Spain exalts Hispanic Heritage Day
• Madrid and Barcelona mayors, Podemos’ Iglesias avert celebrations today • Catalan nationalists claim sovereignty, solidarity with indigenous America “In fourteen hundred…
PSOE caretaker begins drive for abstention on Rajoy
• PSOE leader attempts to make cases to membership for ‘technical abstention’ • Basque and Catalan parties may break ranks and vote…
Activists protest return of bullfighting to Catalonia
• Constitutional Court said ready to overturn Catalan law banning bullfighting • Animal-rights activists mobilize with petitions, call for nationwide protests Animal…
Catalan Socialists insist on ‘No’ vote against Rajoy
• PSC’s Iceta and Parlon insist on PSOE referendum over Rajoy abstention • Interim PSOE administrator says deputies will not be free…
Catalan gov’t to identify Civil War victims using DNA
• DNA samples to be taken from relatives of 4,700 victims of ‘Franquismo’ • Samples to be tested by forensic experts against…
Catalans defy High Court ruling on independence
• Pro-independence deputies pass measure to ‘disconnect’ Catalonia from Spain • Tumultuous parliamentary session sees walkouts, abstentions from opposition The pro-independence majority…
Rajoy to parley with Catalan independence party
• PP leader schedules discreet meeting with CDC party leader Francesc Homs • Re-minted CDC now called Partit Demòcrata Català in image makeover…
Judge says Mas should face trial over referendum
• High Court judge says Catalan ex-President willfully disobeyed Supreme Court • Recommends, Mas and two others face trial over Nov 2014…
‘Unidos Podemos’ targets key regions to beat PSOE
• Campaign strategists eye Catalonia, Valencia, Balearics, Andalucia & Madrid • Left-wing coalition hopes to surpass Socialists in votes and seats in…
PSOE’s Sánchez vows ‘political Pact with Catalonia’
• Socialist promises Constitutional recognition of Catalonia’s ‘unique’ stature • Post-election ‘Pact with Catalonia’ would expand regional self-government In a further sign…
Battle of Ebro monolith to get makeover in Tortosa
• Local citizens vote to ‘recontextualise’, rather than remove monument • Dictator’s ‘Mayor in Perpetuity’ honor revoked by vote of municipal council…
Podemos gives partners veto over Catalan plebiscite
• Podemos cedes veto power over post-election coalitions to Catalan partners • Accord effectively shackles governing pact to Catalan referendum litmus test…
Barcelona’s Colau scrambles to resolve ‘okupa’ riots
• Police engage supporters of ‘okupa’ squatters in three nights of street battles • Fight over eviction from vacant bank branch when…
Spain receives first of 586 refugees expected by July
• Two groups of refugees from camps in Greece, Italy arrive to Spain this week • Interior Ministry says more groups set…
Catalans move to rescind Franco-era court martials
• Legislation introduced to anul verdicts against regime’s political opponents • 100,000 court martials, more than 4,400 executions in Catalonia under Franco…