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Spanish Prosecutors Seek To Jail Popular Catalan Police Chief

Spanish Prosecutors Seek To Jail Popular Catalan Police Chief In a move that is set to further infurate the Catalan separatists for whom the breakaway region’s police chief has emerged as a quasi-folk hero, and prompting an even more vocal push for independence, moments ago the Spanish Public Prosecutor’s Office petitioned Madrid Judge Carmela Lamela, […]

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With Just Hours Until Spain’s Ultimatum Runs Out, Catalonia Proposes Its Own Central Bank

With Just Hours Until Spain’s Ultimatum Runs Out, Catalonia Proposes Its Own Central Bank It’s D-Day for Catalan President Carles Puigdemont who has just a few hours left until 10 am on Monday (4am ET) to respond to the Spanish government’s ultimatum delivered last week by the prime minister, demanding to know whether Puigdemont did, […]

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The Spanish Civil War, revisited

Catalan President Carles Puigdemont signs a declaration of independence at the Catalan regional parliament in Barcelona, on October Photo: Reuters/Albert Gea The Spanish Civil War, revisited Puigdemont’s political twist could invoke a lethal response from Madrid: suspension of Catalonia’s government Call it theatre of the absurd – with a lethal subtext. Under pressure from all […]

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The European Union Is Doomed to Fail

The European Union Is Doomed to Fail How on earth can the European Union unite that which history forced asunder? Have you ever heard of Deutsch Jahrndorf? No? I don’t blame you. The tiny Austrian village, which is situated four miles from the Danube, is utterly unremarkable, except for the fact that it sits on […]

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Catalonia Crisis Far From Over Despite Market Surge

Catalonia Crisis Far From Over Despite Market Surge Hopes that Catalonia’s woes could be contained are fading. On Tuesday night, for the briefest of moments, Catalonia’s government severed its ties with Spain. The region’s president, Carles Puigdemont, declared independence from Spain at around 7.40 p.m., Spanish time. Then, roughly ten seconds later, he put it […]

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Madrid Threatens Imprisonment & Death to Catalonia Leaders?

Madrid Threatens Imprisonment & Death to Catalonia Leaders? The Spanish Government is clearly fascist and cannot escape that stigma. The day before the appearance of Carles Puigdemont in front of the regional parliament of Catalonia, the Madrid government has come out and warned of serious bodily threats that one would expect only from a dictator […]

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Madrid Gives Catalonia 5 Day Ultimatum To Clarify If It Declared Independence

Madrid Gives Catalonia 5 Day Ultimatum To Clarify If It Declared Independence With Spain’s prime minister having opened earlier in the day the path for Madrid to use a constitutional “nuclear option” to suspend Catalonia’s autonomy, demanding that the regional government makes clear whether it considers itself independent, moments ago Spain’s Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy […]

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Rajoy Boxed In With Losing Options: Catalonia Suspends Independence Declaration, Posts Guards at Parliament, Seeks Mediation

Rajoy Boxed In With Losing Options: Catalonia Suspends Independence Declaration, Posts Guards at Parliament, Seeks Mediation  The Catalan parliament met Tuesday afternoon. Catalonia president Carles Puigdemont asked parliament to suspend the effects of Catalonia voting “yes” for independence to hold talks with Spain. However, Puigdemont still maintains the legality of the October 1 referendum in Catalonia, stating […]

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What happened when Degrowth was discussed in the Catalan Parliament?

What happened when Degrowth was discussed in the Catalan Parliament? The “estelada decrecentista”, or the Catalan flag with the degrowth symbol instead of the usual star, from “Casdeiro” – click for original context. Introduction from SSM. We recently carried a translation of an interview with Sergi Saladié who introduced a debate on degrowth into the Catalan […]

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Spanish Police Set To Arrest Catalan Leader “Immediately” If He Declares Independence

Spanish Police Set To Arrest Catalan Leader “Immediately” If He Declares Independence Spain’s D-Day is here: the country’s biggest political crisis since an attempted military coup in 1981 is about to get a resolution – one way or another – and as Bloomberg reports, Spanish police are ready to arrest Catalan President Carles Puigdemont “immediately” […]

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Spanish Government Issues Veiled Death Threat To Catalan Leader

Spanish Government Issues Veiled Death Threat To Catalan Leader  In a quite shocking escalation of the rhetoric in Spain, a spokesman for the ruling People’s Party just issued a (barely) veiled death threat to the President of Catalonia. “Let’s hope that nothing is declared tomorrow because perhaps the person who makes the decalartion will end […]

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Spain’s Rajoy Ready To Trigger “Nuclear Option” As Thousands Protest Against Independence In Barcelona

Spain’s Rajoy Ready To Trigger “Nuclear Option” As Thousands Protest Against Independence In Barcelona One week after the historic Catalan Independence Referendum vote reopened Europe’s populist Pandora Box of nationalist secession movements, tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Catalonia’s capital Barcelona on Sunday to express their opposition to any declaration of […]

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Spain is only the Blueprint for How All Governments Will Act

Spain is only the Blueprint for How All Governments Will Act What is going on in Spain is the blueprint what what other governments will do. The Spanish people themselves outside of Catalonia are deeply divided. Many see this as offensive and others see the government as offensive. We are looking at the breakup of […]

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You’re On Your Own, by Robert Gore

You’re On Your Own, by Robert Gore ichef.bbci.co.uk If the world seems incomprehensible now, just wait. Within a twenty-four-hour span the Catalonian people voted 90 percent in favor of secession from Spain, despite the Spanish government’s effort to violently squelch the referendum, and a man in a Las Vegas hotel room opened fire on a concert, […]

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“A Civil War Is Coming” – EU Commissioner Urges Madrid & Barcelona To Talk

“A Civil War Is Coming” – EU Commissioner Urges Madrid & Barcelona To Talk The EU’s budget commissioner has warned of the risk of “civil war” in Catalonia, as fears grew over a looming independence declaration and major banks prepared to relocate their headquarters. With just 48 hours until Catalonia’s Parliament meets, defying Madrid, to […]

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