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 ...

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 ...

Catalonia's President Carles Puigdemont has delayed a formal declaration of independence from Spain to encourage dialogue with Madrid, in an effort to defuse the crisis over the future of the ...

MADRID (AP) — Authorities in Catalonia who want their northeastern region to leave Spain plan to hold a independence referendum Sunday – a vote that the central government in Madrid has vowed to halt.

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The group emerged at the time of the amnesty for Catalan independence leaders. The graffiti was in the Fonts Ufanes area of ...

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 ...