Barcelona is Spain's second city and the capital of the proud and distinct region of Catalonia -- Catalunya in the local language. With Francisco Franco's fascism now long gone, Catalonia's creative ...

On 6 October 1934, president Lluís Companys proclaimed the Catalan State. This attempt ended up with the imprisonment of the members of the Catalan Government and the suspension of the Statute of ...

A December 2017 post-mortem on the Catalonian independence movement, its origins in the ruling classes of Catalonia, its social base among the middle classes, its goals, its tactical mistakes, its ...

The Countdown to Conflict with Venezuela Looks Nothing Like the Run-Up to the Iran Strikes Audio By Carbonatix Spain’s aggressive centralizing tactics fan the flames of regionalism. If “No taxation ...

The decision to hold a referendum that, at the moment, is unconstitutional, paves the way for an unpredictable and superfluous Catalan adventure spearheaded by provincial leader Artur Mas, writes DW's ...

Precisely when and how markets factor expectations of political change into valuations can be difficult to pinpoint. Lately, however, we've become accustomed to political reversals and upheavals ...

THE weekend's election seems to have cleared up little about the prospects for Catalonian independence. The governing party, which campaigned for Catalonia's right to self-determination but not (yet) ...

Reporting from Barcelona, Spain — The struggle over Catalonian independence has divided Spanish communities, from neighborhoods to workplaces and families. It was aggravated by uncertainty Saturday, ...

Diverging with the United States and the European Union, Israel has decided it would, for the time being, neither support nor oppose Catalonian independence, an Israeli news website reported. Spain on ...

Catalonia was set to hold a formal referendum on November 9 to decide if the northern region would part with Spain. Independence, however, will not be that swift. A referendum cannot technically be ...

Carles Puigdemont, the ousted separatist leader of Catalonia, is abandoning his bid to be elected once again as president of northeastern region of Spain. In a video message posted from Belgium where ...

Researchers have studied the dynamics of avalanches in the Catalonian Pyrenees using dendrochronology (exact dating from tree-ring growth). The results show that the periods 1971-72, 1995-96 and ...