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 ...

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 ...

Proud of its own identity and language, Catalonia is one of Spain's richest and most highly industrialised regions, and also one of the most independent-minded. Tourism is an important part of ...

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 ...