Catalan independence

The dilemma
| 22/01/2018
Catalonia is in a state of emergency

Impunity will last a couple of years
| 17/01/2018
The PP government’s pathetic U-turn to spare itself any comments from European judges is a taste of what will happen eventually

Now non-violence is violent
Economist | 16/01/2018
If Gandhi's Salt March is the paradigm of non-violence, then the 1-O referendum was also non-violent

January 8: Corsica
| 09/01/2018

Emotionally intense
| 31/12/2017

A hologram or a jailed president?
| 29/12/2017
There is an outright majority of seats for independence, but without any margin for self-deception
Ciudadanos, the party of discord and social divide
28/12/2017
Is Ciudadanos a party that needs a social fracture to grow?

The nerve of 'Informe semanal'
| 28/12/2017

Courage and luck
President of Òmnium Cultural | 27/12/2017
Letter from Jordi Cuixart, jailed president of Òmnium Cultural, to David Fernàndez

Enduring
ARA's editor in chief | 24/12/2017
Catalonia’s pro-independence movement will not allow itself to be defeated
Prime mover behind Spanish anthem protest gets €7,200 fine
Barcelona | 23/12/2017
Madrid’s Audiencia Nacional has found Santiago Espot guilty of two counts of outrage and affront to the Crown
Spain’s Supreme Court indicts more independence leaders, including former Catalan president Artur Mas
Madrid | 23/12/2017
On January 4 the Spanish court will decide whether Catalan vice president Oriol Junqueras must remain in custody. The prosecutor has asked that Jové and Trapero be indicted.
Pro-independence parties still rule the waves in Catalonia
23/12/2017
With the highest turnout in history (over 80 per cent) the pro-independence bloc has won again, renewing its overall majority but falling short of attaining 50 per cent of the popular vote

Santamaría boasts of having "decapitated" ERC and PDECat, rallies PP voters to "continue liquidating separatism"
Girona | 20/12/2017
Spain’s Deputy PM says the PP not only know how to "make speeches", they also know how to govern

Spain’s Supreme Court asks lawyer for a €6,000 deposit to bring charges against judge Lamela
Madrid | 20/12/2017
Asensio wants to charge the National Court judge responsible for the 1-O case with neglect of duty

Junqueras, Sànchez sanctioned for sending political messages from prison by phone
Madrid / Barcelona | 19/12/2017
Both sent voice messages recorded in Estremera and Soto del Real

A highly charged atmosphere
| 17/12/2017
Could one imagine 4 politicians remanded without bail for their ideas anywhere else in the eurozone?

Only 12% of companies have completed the transfer of their headquarters
| 16/12/2017
Although almost 3,000 had begun the process, as of the end of November, only 332 companies had actually completed it

The separatists are to blame
| 15/12/2017
Only 332 companies have so far applied to relocate their headquarters
Abnormal elections on unequal terms
14/12/2017
"I didn’t realise they were Guardia Civil; one hit me in the face and the others in the ribs and kidneys"
| 13/12/2017
The Barcelona resident, who remains on sick leave, says that what began with him telling off a group of plainclothes officers for pulling down an estelada flag, ended in bruises to his head and torso

Objective: Resistance
| 10/12/2017

Spanish officer in Born bar brawl is riot police chief inspector
Barcelona | 09/12/2017
The officer, who was part of the police deployment to block October 1st referendum, has 250 riot police under his command

December 8: Committed
| 08/12/2017
Elections are won with votes. The debate is won with commitment.

Unyielding
| 08/12/2017
Some 45,000 people travelled to Brussels to show their support for the President of the Generalitat and his Ministers
The spirit of the Constitution: from a good fit to “Let’em have it!”
07/12/2017
The Constitution’s wording is ambiguous and pliable, open to a range of interpretations

An explosion of arbitrariness
| 05/12/2017
There is no silent majority, but a Spanish nationalist bloc that will stop at nothing

They can’t get away with calling us violent: we are not
05/12/2017
“Junqueras, Forn, Sànchez and Cuixart are not violent types”
EDICIÓ PAPER 18/01/2021
