Carles Puigdemont, the regional president and a leading secessionist, said that Catalonia had won “the right to independence.” He called on Europe to support the region’s split from Spain ...

Catalonia is no stranger to flirting with secession. The Catalan Parliament voted overwhelmingly to declare independence from Spain in late October, leading the Spanish Senate to respond by ...

Picture: Lluis Gene/AFP Others have pointed out Catalonia won’t ever get rid of Spain, with a map showing the outline of the Iberian Peninsula is mimicked in the streets of one Catalonian city ...

This coalition won a majority on a platform with an explicit hoja de ruta (road map) toward independence ... way forward for Catalonia in the European Union? A threat that Spain holds against ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Catalonia will stick to its timetable for independence from Spain despite the national political stalemate and the Madrid government's refusal to negotiate, the region's foreign ...

Reporting from Barcelona, Spain — Spain’s central government Friday fired Catalonia’s separatist leaders, dissolved its parliament and called new elections for December, hours after regional ...

Hours after 2 million citizens in the Catalonia region ... to declare independence from Spain, the secessionist leaders here planned an emergency meeting to map out their next steps for ...