I'm Catalan, I'm a Catalanista; I feel more Catalan than Spanish.
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He also banned the speaking of Catalan language and abolished Catalan institutions.
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Catalan television later showed Mossos officers and Catalan firefighters confronting the national police.
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At home we speak Catalan and Spanish, as in many other Catalan homes.
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People display Catalan separatist flags during a demonstration outside the Catalan regional parliament in Barcelona.
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If this political conflict over the Catalan identity continues, the Catalan economy will be impoverished.
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A few also carried Catalan flags, indicating their support for Catalan autonomy, within a united Spain.
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Catalan regional president Quim Torra and the Catalan parliament's chairman Roger Torrent took part in the march.
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He fired the Catalan government, dissolved the Catalan Parliament and set new regional elections for Dec. 21.
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"Neither Puigdemont nor the Catalan government knows exactly what the Catalan people's opinion is," Ms. Juana said.
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The trains collided head on, Joan Gracia, spokesman for the Catalan emergency service, told Catalan network TV3.
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They were students at Catalan University and their bus was one of five returning from Valencia, Catalan officials said.
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The Catalans also want to at least add two words to the name Occitania: "Pays Catalan," or Catalan Land.
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The former Catalan leader is due to speak at a debate in Copenhagen, Denmark, on the Catalan issue Monday.
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Mr. Rajoy and his government could also suspend other Catalan officials across the region's public administration, from the leadership of the Catalan autonomous police force to the directorship of the Catalan public television and radio broadcaster.
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The Catalan parliament was dissolved and Rajoy called for a new Catalan regional election to be held on Dec. 2155.
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Catalan television stations later showed some Mossos and Catalan firefighters confronting the national police as tensions mounted at polling stations.
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Separatists, including Mr. Puigdemont, the former Catalan leader, have argued that Spain's judiciary jailed Catalan leaders unjustifiably on political grounds.
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During his 23 years as the Catalan president, Mr. Pujol acted as a buffer between the Madrid government and more hard-line Catalan separatists, squeezing concessions and more autonomy from Madrid without ever calling for Catalan independence.
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Quim Torra, the current Catalan president, attended Wednesday's session in the Supreme Court, along with the Catalan parliament's speaker Roger Torrent.
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Societat Civil Catalan has called for those who oppose Catalan independence to march at noon Sunday (1100 GMT; 7 a.m. EDT).
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Ciudadanos, the party I preside over, began from a Catalan civil movement representing a majority of Catalans silenced by Catalan nationalism.
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The trial of the 12 separatist Catalan leaders is likely to keep the Catalan issue front and center of the campaign.
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Supporters of independence gathered outside the Catalan parliament in Barcelona cheered and waved Catalan flags as news of the result broke.
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Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy dissolved the Catalan parliament and took control of the Catalan police force, installing a new police chief.
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After negotiations with Mr. Rajoy's party, a Socialist party representative suggested that the central government might also take control of the Catalan police force, Mossos D'Esquadra, and the Catalan public broadcaster, TV3, which are run autonomously from Barcelona, the Catalan capital.
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An article on Friday about a Spanish court's move to pre-empt the Catalan independence declaration misspelled the surname of the Catalan leader.
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Earlier this summer, Catalan regional officials announced they would hold a referendum on creating a Catalan autonomous state from Spain on October 1.
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Teaching Spanish — instead of the semiautonomous province's mother-tongue of Catalan — in schools would strike a blow against a key marker of Catalan identity.
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The government is also likely to replace the commanders of the Catalan police force, and take over the Catalan government's finances and IT centre.
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Spanish authorities took over the Catalan government for several months after a subsequent declaration of independence by the Catalan parliament received no international recognition.
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Several hundred Catalan municipalities said they were against direct rule from Madrid and asked the Catalan parliament to vote on a motion rejecting it.
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Oriol Junqueras, the former Catalan vice president who is the highest-ranking former Catalan official to stand trial, says the charges are politically motivated.
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Standing trial alongside Junqueras are former Catalan ministers, the former speaker of the Catalan regional parliament and the leaders of grassroots pro-independence organizations.
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Carme Forcadell, the president of the Catalan Parliament, criticized the court for making its decision even before Catalan lawmakers had formally convened Monday's session.
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Hundreds gathered outside the parliament in Strasbourg, many waving pro-independence Catalan flags, to protest against the exclusion of the three Catalan separatist leaders.
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BARCELONA (Reuters) - Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont will address the regional parliament next Tuesday on the "current political situation," the Catalan parliament said on Twitter.
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But desire for Catalan independence can be traced back to the era of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco, who suppressed both Catalan culture and language.
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MADRID (Reuters) - Catalan pro-independence party PdeCat (Catalan Democratic Party)said on Monday it will take part in a snap regional elections on Dec.
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The national court also summoned another Catalan police official, Teresa Laplana, and the leaders of the two main Catalan pro-independence civil groups — Jordi Sanchez of the Catalan National Assembly and Jordi Cuixart of Omnium Cultural — to explain their role in pro-independence demonstrations.
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The Catalan government insists on all teaching in state schools being in Catalan, with Spanish taught as a foreign language, which some parents find vexing.
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A presenter from Catalan station Radio Flaixback rang Rajoy's office claiming to be a Catalan government aide, and was then put directly through to Rajoy.
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Catalan government spokesman Jordi Turull, however, told Catalan radio this was not an option and instead suggested that the parliament could move forward with secession.
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Madrid would have every right to disband the Catalan regional government, and fire Carles Puigdemont, the Catalan president, Mr. Navarro said as he marched along.
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Pictured above, Mr. Puigdemont on Sunday visited the grave of Lluís Companys, a Catalan leader who was imprisoned after proclaiming a Catalan state in 1934.
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MADRID, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Catalan pro-independence party PdeCat (Catalan Democratic Party)said on Monday it will take part in a snap regional elections on Dec.
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After former Catalan separatist leaders were sentenced to prison last month, mass protests spilled over into violence on the streets of Barcelona and other Catalan cities.
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Fernando Sanchez Costa, Catalan parliament deputy, and member of Spain's ruling Partido Popular, told CNBC Friday that Catalan independence leaders are now in a difficult position.
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There is widespread opposition to a Catalan breakaway among people in the rest of the country and also among a large section of the Catalan population.
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Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont said that the absolute majority win by the separatists was a victory of the "Catalan republic" over the Spanish state, Reuters reported.
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The two main Catalan parties — including Mr. Puigdemont's Catalan European Democratic Party — said on Monday they would run in the elections, which are scheduled for Dec.
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Spain has a monarchy, and Mr. Puigdemont said that Catalan voters would be asked if they wanted a Catalan state in the form of a republic.
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Josep Borrell, the foreign minister, who is Catalan, accused Mr Torra of a "totalitarian attitude" in denying the Catalan-ness of those who disagree with independence.
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In a sign of frustration at the lack of progress towards secession, members of one pro-independence civil society group submitted a petition on Saturday calling for the Catalan parliament and regional government to publish the declaration of the Catalan republic in the official Catalan bulletin.
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Catalan pro-independence parties — the Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC) and the Catalan European Democratic Party (PDeCAT) — said Monday that they would file parliamentary amendments opposing the government's 2019 budget proposal unless Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez made concessions on the thorny subject of Catalan independence.
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The Spanish High Court has jailed eight former Catalan government members, along with the leaders of the Catalan National Assembly (ANC) and Omnium Cultural, while investigations continue.
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While the idea of Catalan leaders fleeing Spain and setting up an underground network abroad still appears remote, French backers of Catalan independence are taking no chances.
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Civil servants in Catalan-speaking areas do not have to engage with the language of the population they purportedly serve, yet Catalan civil servants must know Spanish.
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BARCELONA (Reuters) - Catalan regional leader Carles Puigdemont accused Spanish authorities of using "unjustified, disproportionate and irresponsible" violence in a crackdown on a Catalan independence referendum on Sunday.
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Madrid's plans to hold new Catalan elections in December could be derailed if local administrations throughout Catalonia refuse to take part, said Ms. Lloveras, the Catalan lawmaker.
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" Undeterred by Mr. Rajoy's threat, and after a bitter debate, separatists in the Catalan Parliament passed a resolution to create "a Catalan republic as an independent state.
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Again, the Catalan crisis is still the driver here, and all three right-wing parties are competing to show how tough they can be on Catalan separatists.
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The front-running Catalan separatist party, Esquerra Republicana, has also committed to Mr. Sánchez, although the Socialists may hope to keep clear of another uncomfortable Catalan alliance.
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But Catalan lawmakers, infuriated that Mr. Sánchez had rejected holding a second referendum on Catalan independence after the first, in 0003, was ruled unconstitutional, pulled their support.
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Writing in El Pais last week, Isabel Coixet, an award-winning Catalan filmmaker, wrote that she had been called a fascist for not supporting the Catalan referendum.
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MADRID, Nov 9 (Reuters) - Spanish Supreme Court said on Thursday it decided to take over cases relating to the banned Catalan independence referendum from the Catalan High Court.
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The yield on five-year Catalan bonds, the most liquid segment of the Catalan curve, fell to a three-week low of 2.91 percent, according to Reuters data.
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Catalan society remains split down the middle by secessionism, with three separatist parties winning on Sunday a combined 23 of the 48 Catalan seats in the Spanish Parliament.
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The Catalan region's head of foreign affairs, Raul Romeva, told the BBC on Friday that the Catalan parliament intended to make a decision on independence, without specifying when.
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The situation is logistically, structurally, politically, and financially complicated because the vast majority of Catalan arts and culture institutions receive funding from both the Catalan and Spanish governments.
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The national police have taken control of the regional police who are monitoring the lockdown of the Catalan city of Igualada, and on Thursday, the Spanish army entered the Catalan city of Barcelona to disinfect its port and airport, and it is deploying in dozens of Catalan towns this week.
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BARCELONA, Oct 1 (Reuters) - Catalan regional leader Carles Puigdemont accused Spanish authorities of using "unjustified, disproportionate and irresponsible" violence in a crackdown on a Catalan independence referendum on Sunday.
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If Sanchez does not need to rely on Catalan separatists, who brought down his minority government, he may have more political freedom to deal with the Catalan independence movement.
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But faced with accusations of treachery from hardline nationalists, he instead pushed the Catalan parliament to pass a resolution "constituting the Catalan republic as an independent and sovereign state".
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Andrew Dowling, a specialist in Catalan history at Cardiff University in Wales, said that 13,000 businesses in Catalonia went under in 2009, pushing many moderate Catalan nationalists toward independence.
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Puigdemont and other Catalan leaders fled to Belgium before warrants were issued for their arrest — and later were elected in exile to a new Catalan government late last year.
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They include Sànchez, former president of the Catalan National Assembly; Jordi Cuixart, leader of the Òmnium Cultural civil society group; and Carme Forcadell, former president of the Catalan parliament.
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Mr. Puigdemont could also then try to convene Catalan elections, on his own terms, to form what he could describe as the first Parliament of a new Catalan republic.
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Mr. Puigdemont's lawyer told the Belgian news media on Saturday that the five former Catalan ministers were likely to stay in Belgium until after the Catalan elections on Dec.
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Catalan police records turned up nothing linking Es Satty, a Moroccan-born imam who was living in the small Catalan town of Ripoll, to Islamist militancy at the time.
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Many eligible voters boycotted the vote, believing the referendum itself was an undemocratic imposition by the Catalan secessionists who hold a whippet thin majority in the Catalan regional parliament.
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A Catalan legislator was quoted by El Mundo newspaper as saying secessionist parties in the Catalan parliament were discussing an independence declaration to be submitted to the assembly next Tuesday.
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GRANGER MORGANCarnegie Mellon UniversityPittsburgh The Catalan conundrum It is the Spanish constitution, and not the government, which prevents a referendum on self determination in Catalonia ("The Catalan question", September 210rd).
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Yet on October 6th 1934—two years before Franco started the civil war—Lluís Companys, the Catalan president, appeared on the balcony of the Generalitat to declare a "Catalan state".
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"My assumption has long been it's someone from catalan based on their language use," referring to the fact that Phineas Fisher used English, Spanish, and Catalan in their online postings.
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This declared independence lasted for only a few seconds, as Catalan regional president Carles Puigdemont announced that he was suspending Catalan independence to start negotiations with the Spanish government instead.
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Although it is not clear whether that Twitter account, under the name "Jeffrey Catalan," belongs to the constituent, on Wednesday night it tweeted without details that Catalan "recanted" a statement.
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Addressing the Catalan parliament on Saturday, Torra, a staunch supporter of secession, vowed to work towards a Catalan republic and referred to Puigdemont as the legitimate leader of the region.
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The Catalan government says 90 percent of referendum voters favored independence, but only about 40 percent of the Catalan electorate participated, and earlier polls had shown a majority opposing secession.
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Faced with the threat of a Catalan republic, the king reacted as a monarch unwilling to lose part of his territory, Ernesto Ekaizer, a newspaper columnist, said on Catalan television.
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Monday's Catalan national day commemorates a Catalan defeat at the hands of Madrid: the 1714 capture of Barcelona by the troops of Philip V, the first Bourbon monarch of Spain.
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Rajoy, a conservative who has taken a hard line on Catalan independence, is considering the unprecedented step of dissolving the Catalan parliament and triggering regional elections, ruling party lawmakers say.
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Catalan lawmakers voted on the motion — that "We shall constitute the Catalan Republic as an independent, and sovereign, democratic and social state of law" — in a secret ballot Friday afternoon.
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" Calçada further wrote: "The situation is logistically, structurally, politically, and financially complicated because the vast majority of Catalan arts and culture institutions receive funding from both the Catalan and Spanish governments.
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The foremost historian of the politics of the Spanish Golden Age of the 753th and 17th centuries, he wrote his doctoral thesis on the Catalan Revolt of 1640 and speaks Catalan.
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The minister explained that the passengers were students at Catalan universities, Earlier reporting had the number of deaths at 14, but the Catalan government said 13 students died in the crash.
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A good result will confirm "the failure of the Spanish government's strategy to clamp down on Catalan Republican progress," said Alfred Bosch, who oversees foreign affairs within the Catalan separatist government.
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Asked what Catalan police should do with the protesters sent back over the border from France, Catalan government leader Quim Torra said there was no reason for charges to be brought.
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Much would depend on how Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy responds to the Catalan question, said Antonio Roldán, a lawmaker for Ciudadanos, a party that was founded in opposition to Catalan secessionism.
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In 2006, a new statute of Catalan autonomy, which had been drafted by a Socialist-led regional government, was approved in a regional referendum, as well by Catalan and Spanish lawmakers.
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After the vote, in which Socialist Meritxell Batet was elected committee president, Catalan separatist politicians used the swearing-in process as a platform to demand freedom for jailed Catalan separatist leaders.
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"The Catalan high class and middle class have played to a revolution," Fernando Sánchez Costa, a conservative member of the Catalan parliament from Rajoy's Partido Popular party, said on CNBC Friday.
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" Others chanted, in Catalan, "Freedom for the Political Prisoners.
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A supporter of the European Union, he switches easily from Catalan to Spanish, French or Romanian, the native language of his wife, whom he met at the Catalan News Agency he founded.
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The government can now dismiss the Catalan regional government, dissolve its parliament and call a snap election, as well as seize control of the Catalan police force and publicly-owned media outlets.
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The main Spanish parties block Catalan from becoming an official language of the EU. Catalan speakers are forced to speak Spanish when a judge does not understand their language at a trial.
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Rajoy said he would respect the decision of the Spanish Supreme Court which on Thursday is hearing sedition allegations from state prosecutors against the Catalan parliament speaker and five other Catalan lawmakers.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Former Catalan minister Clara Ponsati's lawyer welcomed a Spanish court's decision to withdraw European Arrest Warrants against Catalan politicians, but said it was unclear whether they would be allowed back.
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Puigdemont's self-imposed exile came after Spain's chief prosecutor on Monday called for charges of rebellion, sedition and embezzlement to be leveled against the Catalan leader, his deputies and other Catalan officials.
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Why the referendum on Catalan independence is illegalSeptember 26th The Catalan referendum on seceding from Spain, held on October 1st, was won convincingly (if on a lowish turnout) by supporters of independence.
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Cover image: Protesters hold a banner reading 'traitors' with drawings depicting Catalan separatist leaders near the Supreme Court during the trial of Catalan separatist leaders on February 12, 2019 in Madrid, Spain.
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Signs at its stadium are primarily written in the Catalan language and the club's president, Josep Maria Bartomeu, issued a strong condemnation of the treatment of Catalan voters in the recent referendum.
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BARCELONA, Spain — Agustí Colomines, a Catalan civil servant, held up a copy of the decree from Madrid that had fired his boss and all the other leaders in the Catalan regional government.
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The spokesman, Pablo Casado, even drew an analogy with the fate of Lluís Companys, a Catalan leader who was imprisoned for proclaiming a Catalan state in 1934, shortly before Spain's civil war.
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"If the Catalan ministers go to work on Monday and manage to work normally, it will be a strong step towards consolidating what the Catalan Parliament voted on yesterday," Mr. Borda said.
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And it was that decision that helped turn the idea of Catalan independence, previously a minority pursuit, into one that would eventually hold the support of something approaching half the Catalan electorate.
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Mr. Sánchez, whose weak Socialist government relies in part on support from the Catalan parties, has also allowed the jailed Catalan politicians to be transferred from Madrid to prisons within their region.
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Screenshot of Catalan live map for crowdsourcing street intel Screenshot of Catalan live map for crowdsourcing street intel Our source suggested police presence on the map might be depicted by chick emojis.
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In July, thousands of Catalan independence supporters gathered at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, to denounce the fact that the newly elected assembly was meeting without some of its Catalan representatives.
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For many Spaniards, the Catalan independence movement is also raising worrying questions about whether FC Barcelona, the Catalan regional team, might be kicked out of La Liga, the premier Spanish soccer league.
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The Catalan police, or Mossos d'Esquadra, who are monitoring the schools, are held in great affection by the Catalan people, especially after Islamist attacks in the region in August that killed 16.
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In an short address broadcast by Catalan regional television TV3, Puigdemont called for the release of "the legitimate government of Catalonia", a call echoed by hundreds of people gathered outside the Catalan parliament.
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The Spanish government responded to the Catalan deal on Saturday by issuing a statement in which it reminded Catalan politicians that they had to respect Spanish law and decisions taken to stop secessionism.
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Born in 1923 to the son of a lawyer and Catalan nationalist, Antoni Tàpies was exposed at an early age to the cultural and social influence of leaders in the Catalan public sphere.
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Catalan ex-regional president Artur Mas, the first leader to harness the political momentum for secession, told Catalan public television on Sunday that he backed a fusion of parties for the December vote.
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The Catalan law paving the way for the referendum said the parliament of Catalonia would declare the region's independence within 48 hours of a "yes" vote being proclaimed by the Catalan electoral office.
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While Mr. Rajoy did not present the new law as a buffer against Catalan separatism, it could nonetheless be used to replace key Catalan officials very swiftly, without seeking approval from the Senate.
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Over two-thirds of people born in Catalonia to Catalan-born parents wanted independence, according to research published in July by the Center for Opinion Studies, a pollster funded by the Catalan government.
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But Mr. Rajoy's emergency powers range from the suspension of Catalonia's politicians and its regional Parliament to the suspension of the Catalan autonomous police, as well as the Catalan television and radio broadcaster.
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The Catalan resentment is aimed at the governing party of Mr. Rajoy because it had campaigned against a Catalan statute that had been promoted by the Socialists, its main rival party in Spain.
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Last year, a unilateral declaration of independence by the Catalan government ignited a constitutional crisis in which Catalan leaders were arrested or fled and the Spanish government took direct control of the province.
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Negotiating in good faith with Catalan leaders to find a political solution, rather than relying on the judiciary's restrictive interpretation of the Constitution to punish Catalan efforts for greater autonomy, would also help.
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COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont said Monday during a university debate in Copenhagen he will address the media on Tuesday, declining to answer questions about the current situation in Catalan parliament.
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Is it different for Catalan government officials who go vote?
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The history taught in Catalan schools has a nationalist tinge.
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The Basque country offers a variation on the Catalan theme.
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Barcelona's Chinese parade includes dracs (a Catalan species of dragon).
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But some issues are more personal to the Catalan capital.
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"Catalan identity has been very important to me," she said.
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"Today Catalan society is fractured and in conflict," he said.
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In the rest of Spain, Catalan complaints get short shrift.
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Companies rushed to withdraw their treasury operations from Catalan banks.
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There was no immediate response from the top Catalan officials.
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TODAY Catalan separatist leaders go on trial, accused of rebellion.
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For supporters of Catalan independence, it is a political trial.
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One woman died Friday from her injuries, Catalan police said.
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The Catalan impasse is part of a wider Spanish gridlock.
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Before Franco's death in 0003, the Catalan language was suppressed.
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The Catalan government sources could not confirm the other arrests.
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He later called on Catalan leaders to cancel the vote.
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An estimated 41 percent of the Catalan population wants independence.
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In response, Catalan separatist leaders called for mass civil disobedience.
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They speak Catalan, rather than Spanish, as a first language.
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One of his sisters works for the Catalan regional government.
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The majority of these Catalan leaders were convicted for sedition.
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The Catalan independence effort picked up steam in the 2000s.
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Catalan trade unions have called a general strike for Tuesday.
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So people are worried about the cohesion of Catalan society.
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"The Catalan president has broken all the laws," he said.
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Patrick Chappatte Catalan lawmakers declared independence from Spain on Friday.
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Another six Catalan leaders are due to testify on Nov.
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Catalan society is deeply divided over the question of independence.
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The European Union has shown no support for Catalan independence.
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When the Catalan region celebrated its national day on Sept.
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Yes, there was a little uncertainty in the Catalan air.
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"I couldn't figure out how to finish it," Catalan said.
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After further tests, Catalan police said it represented no danger.
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Further, there are no significant risks to encouraging Catalan nationalism.
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Catalan officials have since suggested that the explosives were fakes.
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This is because center-right PdeCat (Catalan Democratic Party) of sacked Catalan president Carles Puigdemont is expected to be overtaken by leftist Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (ERC) of former regional vice president Oriol Junqueras.
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BARCELONA (Reuters) - Final results in last weekend's banned Catalan referendum on independence from Spain showed "yes" votes winning 90.18 percent of votes cast against 7.83 percent of "no" votes, the Catalan regional government said.
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Spain's King Felipe VI on Tuesday accused Catalan secessionist leaders of shattering democratic principles and dividing Catalan society while Catalonia's leader, Carles Puigdemont, said the region will declare independence in a matter of days.
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Catalan president Carles Puigdemont has called the Catalan parliament to meet this week to agree on a response to Madrid, something many observers said could pave the way for a formal declaration of independence.
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If the new nation were to be denied entrance or have difficulty joining the union, the Catalan economy would face large transition costs, as the EU accounts for roughly 65.8 percent of Catalan exports.
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"The new signings don't seem able to lead the team, and the fans definitely notice that," says Natàlia Arroyo, coach of the Catalan national women's team, technical analyst and journalist at Catalan newspaper Ara.
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Elsewhere in Madrid, other demonstrators, mostly dressed in white and some carrying white flags, called for greater dialogue between the Catalan and Spanish governments — as did several thousand people in Barcelona, the Catalan capital.
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Mr. Rajoy said the Catalan government had never offered real dialogue but had instead tried to impose its secessionist project on Catalan citizens and the rest of the country in violation of Spain's Constitution.
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In Barcelona, thousands of independence supporters packed the Sant Jaume Square in front of the regional headquarters on Friday night, waving Catalan flags and singing traditional songs in the Catalan language as bands played.
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The fight over independence has split Catalan society down the middle, and in Majorca and the rest of the Balearic archipelago, where the Catalan language is also spoken, nationalist parties have been gaining votes.
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BARCELONA (Reuters) - Catalan regional leader Carles Puigdemont said on Wednesday he was in favor of mediation to find a way out of the Catalan crisis but that the Spanish government had not accepted it.
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Suggesting that Puigdemont and his team were in no mood to follow Rajoy's game plan, Catalan interior minister Joaquim Forn said Article 155 would not allow Madrid to remove members of the Catalan government.
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But the receding threat of a strong Catalan government seeking a split from Spain reduces pressure on the PP and the Socialists to form a grand coalition to stand up to a separatist Catalan administration.
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BARCELONA (Reuters) - Acting Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez warned on Wednesday that the expected rejection by Catalan pro-independence parties of his Catalan nominee for chairman of Spain's Senate would undermine dialogue with the northeastern region.
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"Rajoy will surely try hard to convert a revived Catalan challenge into an argument to force together a Spanish coalition, but I'm less sure that it will work," said Josep Ramoneda, a Catalan political columnist.
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"Catalan society is divided, so Sant Jordi should never be the day to talk politics and divide people even more," said Álex Sàlmon, the editor of the Catalan edition of El Mundo, a Spanish newspaper.
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Spain's IBEX index slipped 0.3 percent, underperforming European peers, after sacked Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont turned himself in to Belgian authorities while weekend polls showed parties favouring Catalan independence would likely win December's regional election.
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Puigdemont made no mention of talks on the Catalan political crisis, which began this week between Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and Catalan regional President Quim Torra, who was due to attend the Perpignan rally.
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MADRID (Reuters) - Pro-independence Catalan parties Junts Pel Si and CUP have asked parliament to meet to discuss and possibly declare the region's independence from Spain on Monday, Catalan newspaper La Vanguardia reported on Wednesday.
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Under Catalan law, those elections would take place within two months.
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Catalan emergency services said that, in all, six people were hospitalized.
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Catalan officials had previously said people of 24 nationalities were victims.
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A correfoc performance during a Catalan pro-independence demonstration on Sept.
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His pro-independence coalition has a majority in the Catalan parliament.
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MADRID (Reuters) - Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont has until 10:00 a.m.
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The Catalan government has tried but failed to get international support.
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Demonstrators opposed to Catalan independence also protested in Barcelona on Sunday.
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Her right-hand helper is Naroa Madales, a Catalan aerospace engineer.
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The EU is tricky for both sides in the Catalan debate.
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Pro-independence demonstrators cheer outside the Catalan parliament, in Barcelona, Oct.
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His Catalan Democratic Party is tarnished by allegations of past corruption.
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But a decade ago few people took Catalan secessionism seriously, either.
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There's been a candlelit protest over imprisoned Catalan civil society leaders.
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Sanchez allies have likened the Catalan negotiating tactics to political blackmail.
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Tensions between the central and Catalan regional government have abated somewhat.
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The politician fled Spain after declaring the Catalan independence last year.
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The Ciudadanos and Catalan separatists are also expected to win seats.
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The Catalan authority said almost 90 percent of voters backed independence.
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This crisis has divided Catalan society and dampened Spain's external image.
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The trial will decide if Catalan nationalist leaders stay in jail.
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Fellow defendants include veteran Catalan politicians Oriol Junqueras and Carme Forcadell.
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On Sunday, thousands gathered in Madrid to protest Sanchez' Catalan policies.
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I'm from Catalonia, Spain, which has two languages, Spanish and Catalan.
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Catalan vice-president Oriol Junqueras, several of his cabinet colleagues, and
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Rajoy, which refused to negotiate Catalan nationalist demands, only fueled the
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Catalan photographer Xavi Bou captures images of huge flocks of birds.
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The new Catalan parliament will hold its first session on Jan.
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He is a true Catalan gentleman and knows how it's done.
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Much of the tension focused on the four jailed Catalan lawmakers.
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The United Nations lists Sharp as American and Catalan as Chilean.
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Catalan authorities say about 90 percent of participants in an Oct.
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He regained his seat in the Catalan parliament in a Dec.
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But the prospect has left Catalan citizens and journalists especially anxious.
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The Catalan authorities say the referendum showed voters overwhelmingly support independence.
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His sheer stubbornness entered Catalan folklore and endeared him to Catalonians.
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Vila stepped down from the Catalan cabinet before the independence declaration.
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Many Spaniards reject Catalan separatism and judge their political parties accordingly.
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She met Picasso at Le Catalan Restaurant in Paris, in 103.
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They had jobs, were well assimilated, and spoke Catalan and Spanish.
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So wealthy backers of Catalan independence aren't exactly hard to find.
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The first is the foreboding Catalan, now the story's ultimate villain.
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He borrowed it to devise a dessert using Catalan sheep's milk.
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These developments have stoked the radicalism of the Catalan nationalist movement.
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Ms. Catalan was responsible for investigating child soldiers, among other things.
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Carles Puigdemont, the former Catalan president, blasted the seizure on Twitter.
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Catalan nationalists have also persistently promoted the idea of a referendum.
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MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's Constitutional Court officially annulled the Catalan parliament's Oct.
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Widely-watched Catalan public television TV3 will come under central control.
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Catalan officials say people voted overwhelmingly for secession in the Oct.
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We can track the current extreme polarization of Catalan society back to three major events: The Catalan government's determination to hold an independence referendum overriding the Spanish constitution; the Spanish central government's decision to deploy police officials who broke into Catalan public institutions, seizing material for said referendum; and the Spanish police's physical charges against civilians on the day of the referendum.
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During the demonstration, the two Arran members ascended to the second level of the bus where they lit two flares and unfurled a banner reading "Stop mass tourism in the Catalan countries," in the Catalan language.
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Faure says castells is a true Catalan tradition, a view she doesn&apost hold about Spanish icons such as bullfighting, which Catalan authorities have tried to ban, or Flamenco, an import from Andalucia in southern Spain.
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Earlier in the week, the ruling Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) failed to secure the additional votes it needed from two separatist Catalan parties, the Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC) and the Catalan European Democratic Party (PDeCAT).
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Mr. Rajoy also argued that the Catalan separatists had never gotten a majority of votes in an election to justify secession, and so could not claim to be acting in the name of the Catalan people.
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The release quotes Catalan health minister Alba Vergés, who notes, "The Catalan health system is prepared to detect and treat coronavirus, to give the most appropriate response, and this must be clear to those attending MWC Barcelona."
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MADRID, Oct 4 (Reuters) - Pro-independence Catalan parties Junts Pel Si and CUP have asked parliament to meet to discuss and possibly declare the region's independence from Spain on Monday, Catalan newspaper La Vanguardia reported on Wednesday.
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For all his recent faults, the Spanish premier's blunder in fact came much earlier, when he failed to address the Catalan government's grievances, such as unfair fiscal policies or the lack of recognition of Catalan national identity.
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The pro-independence Catalan National Assembly (ANC), which has organized protests of hundreds of thousands of secessionists in the past, interpreted Puigdemont's push for mediation as essentially a call for EU recognition of a new Catalan state.
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However, some Catalan entrepreneurs here believe it was unrealistic to expect Catalans, who now represent less than one-tenth of the population of the enlarged region, to persuade other inhabitants to give full recognition to Catalan culture.
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On Sunday, a crowd estimated by local police to number 350,000, took to the streets of the Catalan capital Barcelona, waving Spanish and Catalan flags and carrying banners saying "Catalonia is Spain" and "Together we are stronger".
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Over the weekend Catalan critics of Rajoy's center-right Madrid government frequently made comparisons to Franco's fascist forces, as Spanish military police in riot gear prevented the Catalan President Carles Puigdemont from voting in his own district.
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"It could all get worse," the moderate Catalan newspaper La Vanguardia said in an editorial after Spanish police used batons and rubber bullets to disrupt the vote, sparking violence that Catalan officials say injured around 840 people.
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For more than two weeks, Mr. Puigdemont and Mr. Rajoy had engaged in a game of chicken over whether the Catalan leader was ready to secede unilaterally, following a confusing address to the Catalan Parliament on Oct.
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If Catalan separatists were to declare independence unilaterally, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy would most likely use emergency powers to take full administrative control of Catalonia, which could involve replacing the Catalan police force with Spanish police officers.
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The government's proposal last Tuesday to appoint a rapporteur in talks among political parties to address the Catalan independence crisis galvanized the opposition, which has deemed it a betrayal and a surrender to pressure from Catalan separatists.
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The government is squeezed on both sides of the Catalan issue: Deputy Prime Minister Carmen Calvo said on Friday the talks were on track to fail because Catalan pro-independence groups had rejected the government's proposed framework.
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MADRID (Reuters) - The Catalan parliament voted on Tuesday to reject a Spanish Supreme Court ruling that suspended former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont and five other pro-independence politicians from public office, marking a new standoff with Madrid.
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The government's proposal last Tuesday to appoint a rapporteur in talks among political parties to address the Catalan independence crisis has galvanized the opposition, which deems it a betrayal and a surrender to pressure from Catalan separatists.
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The Catalan leader is due to make a statement at 9 p.m.
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The ANC called on Catalan civil servants to respond with "peaceful resistance".
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Catalan police confirm officers shot and killed four suspects in the attack.
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Quim Torra, Mr Puigdemont's replacement, claims to be "building the [Catalan] republic".
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Nevertheless, many of the Catalan separatist leaders talk the language of identity.
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He and his wife had left the Catalan capital at 6 a.m.
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ECB officials have so far declined to comment on the Catalan crisis.
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"The Catalan story confounds and worries us," said Swissquote analyst Yann Quellen.
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Elections to the Catalan parliament would then be held within three months.
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Spain has since sacked the autonomous Catalan government and called regional elections.
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Members of this delegation met Sharp and Catalan at the Woodland Hotel.
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Catalan officials said that almost 2.3m people voted, 2m of them Yes.
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Under autonomy, Catalan leaders have promoted their language and their nationalist creed.
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The Catalan government has quietly constructed the rudiments of an independent state.
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What is clearer is that Catalan society remains split down the middle.
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They may be correct for now, given the polarization of Catalan society.
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He was elected by the Catalan parliament&aposs secessionist lawmakers on Monday.
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Following the vote, pro-independence lawmakers stood to sing the Catalan anthem.
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But in a surprising move, Catalan separatists voted against it on Thursday.
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Catalan politicians could be arrested if they continued working after being fired.
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To some, the Catalan political crisis has been a long time coming.
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"They will tell you you can do nothing," it says in Catalan.
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Borrell has attracted media attention because of his opposition to Catalan independence.
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"I call it the Kumbaya factor," moans an anti-separatist Catalan economist.
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Neither do I feel comfortable with my Catalan one outside its territory.
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It was televised by Catalan public broadcaster TV3 which called him "president".
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Catalan officials say 400 polling stations were closed because of the violence.
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Madrid also dissolved the Catalan parliament and called for fresh regional elections.
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The Spanish and Catalan languages enjoy co-official status in the region.
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The three Catalan separatist parties won a combined 23 seats on Sunday.
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The party, a newcomer, has banged the drum against Catalan separatism relentlessly.
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And any support from Catalan separatist parliamentarians would be hard to clinch.
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They spoke Catalan, had jobs and played in a local football team.
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The violence was limited, but won sympathy abroad for the Catalan cause.
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Catalan-based sport daily Marca featured Ranieri alongside the headline 'Ole Leicester!
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Catalan government treated a regional election as a plebiscite on the secession
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Catalan authorities provide heath care, run their schools and police their streets.
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In Spain, the Catalan government held a referendum on independence from Spain.
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CaixaBank and Sabadell are more exposed than peers, given their Catalan roots.
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Other members of the former Catalan government were recently jailed without bail.
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The Catalan leader "should respond yes or no" by Thursday, she said.
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Or take the Catalan approach and offer tomato toast at every meal.
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Madrid has already used the stick to force Catalan media into line.
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Opposition to Mr. Rajoy has fueled the Catalan independence movement for years.
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Catalan independence is not a threat to democracy; rabid Spanish nationalism is.
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And European states are right to give the Catalan secessionists no support.
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He even threatened to revoke Catalonia's autonomy unless Catalan lawmakers backed down.
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In June, the Catalan authorities transferred the last inmates to other penitentiaries.
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Tabàrnia has also accomplished what Catalan separatists have yet to achieve: independence.
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The CUP only holds 10 seats in the 135-seat Catalan parliament.
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Above, watching a speech by the Catalan leader in a Barcelona bar.
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A record 1,000 media accreditations had been delivered by the Catalan Parliament.
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The website of the Catalan National Assembly was shut down on Monday.
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In Italy, meanwhile, the use of Catalan was neither prohibited nor encouraged.
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Yet the Catalan regional authorities are putting this remarkable achievement in danger.
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"Today we have stepped on Catalan soil as free people," he said.
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Yet if the Catalan issue is not tackled, political uncertainty will linger.
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Catalan pro-independence protesters gather during a demonstration in Barcelona, Oct. 26.
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However, Catalan government spokesman Jordi Turull said this was not an option.
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A Catalan parliament spokesman said Monday's parliamentary session would still go ahead.
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"Heavy rainfall cut roads out of Mosul," governor official Nouruddin Catalan said.
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The Catalan government will decide within one year which treaties to authorize.
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Catalan authorities say that the overwhelming majority of voters in the Oct.
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He later told Spain's parliament the Catalan government had until Monday, Oct.
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Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont will then be given an opportunity to reply.
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MADRID (Reuters) - Spain rejected as absurd suggestions that Catalan separatist Carles Puigdemont could lead the region from exile if elected president by the new Catalan parliament, and said if he were chosen Madrid would maintain direct central rule.
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According to the Catalan government, he gave Sanchez a book about a Catalan valley that enjoys a great degree of self-government, a compilation of medieval maps of Catalonia and a bottle of traditional liquor from his hometown.
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"If there is no budget, it won't be the Catalan pro-independence parties' fault, it will be because you think you will benefit from an early election," said Ferran Bel, from the Catalan PDeCat party, addressing the government.
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The region's emergence as the industrial powerhouse of Spain brought social upheaval and immigration—and a cultural renaissance centred on the revival of the Catalan language, which in turn spawned a nationalist movement among the powerful Catalan bourgeoisie.
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MADRID (Reuters) - Secessionist parties in the Catalan parliament are discussing an independence declaration that will be submitted to the regional assembly next Tuesday, a pro-independence Catalan legislator was quoted as saying by El Mundo newspaper on Friday.
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It was called by Mr Rajoy, who was granted previously unused powers under Article 155 of Spain's constitution to suspend Catalan self-government after a unilateral declaration of independence organised in October by Carles Puigdemont, the Catalan president.
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Following the call for charges, deposed Catalan President Carles Puigdemont travelled to Belgium on Monday, saying that he was not trying to escape justice but wanted to put the Catalan issue at the heart of the European Union.
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The vote in the Catalan Parliament came only one month after the Constitutional Court struck down part of a Catalan autonomy statute that had been approved by the region's 5.5 million voters, as well as the Spanish Parliament.
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But after a controversial Catalan independence referendum in early October, an opinion poll found that nearly 63 percent of Basques did not want to copy the Catalan approach to achieving independence, while only 22 percent were in favor.
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Puigdemont said in an interview broadcast on Catalan television on Sunday that a law passed by the Catalan parliament preparing the way for the referendum called for a declaration of independence in the event of a "yes" vote.
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MADRID — A judge who sits on Spain's Supreme Court on Thursday granted bail to a handful of Catalan lawmakers awaiting trial on rebellion charges in contrast with the jailing last week of former members of the Catalan government.
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The deposed Catalan president, Carles Puigdemont, went into self-imposed exile in Belgium last week after Spain's central government responded to an independence declaration by firing his administration, dissolving the Catalan parliament and calling regional elections for December.
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Major protests in Catalonia are expected in the coming weeks, when Spain's Supreme Court issues its verdict in the trial of 12 ex-Catalan officials and activists charged for attempting to establish an independent Catalan republic in 2017.
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Image 2 of 2 BERLIN – Former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont said Wednesday he will return to Belgium this weekend to resume efforts to drum up European support for Catalan self-determination after Spain&aposs bid to extradite him collapsed.
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MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's King Felipe VI said on Tuesday he was committed to the unity of Spain as he accused Catalan leaders, who staged a banned independence referendum on Sunday, of shattering democratic principles and of dividing Catalan society.
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In Barcelona on Wednesday evening, he told members of his Catalan Democratic Party that he would press ahead with a more formal declaration of independence if Rajoy suspends Catalonia's political autonomy, Reuters reported citing sources within the Catalan government.
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Following a vote in the Spanish Senate of 214 to 47 to invoke Article 155, Madrid dissolved the Catalan Parliament and took over the everyday functions of the Catalan government, the police, the courts and the public broadcast system.
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In a joint statement, Quim Torra, the current president of the Generalitat (the regional government) and Roger Torrent, the speaker of the Catalan parliament, described it as "an insult to democracy and a show of contempt for Catalan society".
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Read more: Spain warns fugitive Catalan leader not to try to sneak back into the country The Spanish government moved Thursday to legally block former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont from resuming his role as president of the regional government.
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MADRID (Reuters) - Catalan secessionists on Friday registered a motion with the regional parliament to proclaim independence from Spain and a Catalan republic though it was unclear whether the text would be put to a vote, newspaper La Vanguardia said.
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Catalan President Carles Puigdemont, who made a symbolic declaration of independence on Oct.
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But a Casado government would also take a hard line against Catalan separatists.
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Catalan leaders have said they are determined to hold the vote on Oct.
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An opinion poll taken before the Catalan vote put it still in fourth.
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Some anxious Catalan depositors traveled to neighboring regions to open bank accounts there.
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They will use these apps to hold an illegal referendum on Catalan independence.
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The Catalan nationalists backed the censure motion that brought Mr Sánchez to power.
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Catalan police confirm officers shot and killed five suspected assailants in the attack.
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Mr. Torres said the plan was to share them with other Catalan growers.
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The vote was valid and must be implemented, said Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont.
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"Before, no I did not want to split," one Catalan protester told me.
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Casanovas said his 30-strong committee leads a 300-strong French Catalan group.
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An international arrest warrant has been sought for sacked Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont.
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One of his companions was wearing the red-and-yellow striped Catalan flag.
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His party was formed by disillusioned Catalan Socialists who disliked temporising with nationalists.
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Catalan and Sharp were investigating a new conflict in the central Kasai region.
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The Catalan administration says about 43% of the electorate voted, 90% for secession.
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Privately, officials of the Catalan government admitted they were completely unprepared for statehood.
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The right castigated Mr Sánchez for having held inconclusive talks with Catalan officials.
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FOR UP TO 15 months nine Catalan separatist leaders have been in jail.
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Spain sacked the entire Catalan government after the region declared independence last week.
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A tendency to drop final vowels, and pronounce the preceding consonant, resembles Catalan.
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The word for thanks was pointedly spelled out in Catalan, not Castilian Spanish.
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The Socialist leader has consistently refused to discuss the issue of Catalan independence.
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In the past two months, Catalan nationalism has awakened its dormant Spanish counterpart.
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In fact, Mr. Lafontaine called Mr. Valls "a traitor" to the Catalan cause.
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Most people here, however, define their Catalan identity as cultural rather than political.
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Wednesday's parliamentary debate also raised tensions between Mr. Rajoy and Catalan separatist lawmakers.
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Some of the Catalan separatist leaders were later arrested or fled the country.
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No date has been set for the creation of a new Catalan network.
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Some anxious Catalan depositors travelled to neighbouring regions to open bank accounts there.
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The Catalan regional government announced two days of official mourning for the victims.
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The Catalan independence referendum has created a tumult in the southern European country.
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One other jailed Catalan leader was elected to the upper house, the Senate.
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Thousands gathered in Madrid Sunday in a pro-unity demonstration against Catalan independence.
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Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has given Catalan president Carles Puigdemont until 10 a.m.
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This glass cabin sits on the grounds of a 12th-century Catalan farmhouse.
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The central government said on Saturday that it would remove the Catalan leadership.
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He's been confrontational and dismissive toward the Catalan independence movement, thereby invigorating it.
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Their decision was in large part an attempt to defuse the Catalan crisis.
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The operative assumption in the marketplace is that Catalan independence will not happen.
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The separatists followed the referendum with their declaration of a new Catalan republic.
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Cracks though are beginning to appear in an increasingly-frustrated Catalan independence movement.
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"We feel both Catalan and Spanish," Araceli Ponze, 72, said during Sunday's rally.
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In the ensuing crackdown, several Catalan leaders were arrested or fled the country.
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The Catalan poet Joan Maragall called it la gran encisera, the great enchantress.
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They say they created it to attack the contradictions prompted by Catalan separatism.
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Above, a demonstrator holds an Estelada, a Catalan flag, in Barcelona on Thursday.
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Llivia is also a neighbor to Catalan-speaking areas in France and Andorra.
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The Catalan writer-director Carla Simón based the movie on her own experiences.
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In 2015, the Catalan Parliament demanded Spain shut down its immigrant detention centers.
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As for Catalan nationalism, it is divided and losing steam, albeit very slowly.
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But Catalan political parties that favor secession have accelerated their divisive, unconstitutional plans.
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Then the Catalan Parliament officially voted for independence, passing a resolution on Oct.
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Their friends' parents are Portuguese, Indian, Catalan, Ethiopian, Nigerian and occasionally even English.
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If triggered, this provision would elicit Madrid's complete takeover of the Catalan government.
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Catalan separatists face an uphill struggle to hold an independence referendum in 2017.
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Nevertheless, the separatist majority in the Catalan regional Parliament declared independence weeks later.
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Nora Ancarola, the President of the PAAC (The Catalan Assembly of Artists) disagrees.
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More than 840 people were injured during Sunday's police crackdown, Catalan officials said.
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It was not clear how the Catalan government would respond to that offer.
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Two Catalan pro-independence parties backed the motion of no-confidence in Rajoy.
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It has its own language (Catalan), education system, and cultural and literary traditions.
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"Besides being a provocation, which it is, its a move to undermine the institution of the (Catalan government) perpetrated by its own president ... I agree with the government; until there's a Catalan government, 155 will continue to be applied," Sanchez said.
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BARCELONA (Reuters) - Spain's King Felipe VI on Tuesday accused Catalan secessionist leaders of shattering democratic principles and dividing Catalan society, as thousands took to the streets to protest against a violent police crackdown against the banned independence referendum held on Sunday.
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The prospect of a softening from the Catalan parties, who want the region of Catalonia to gain independence from Spain, was always unlikely given the backdrop of a current trial of the leaders of the failed 2017 Catalan independence movement.
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"This is just a very unexpected and happy moment," Mr. Bartolomé said, shuffling on a cane and holding back the tears, after the ceremony at the Catalan national archive in which documents were returned to him and other Catalan families.
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On Thursday, Pablo Llarena, the judge on Spain's Supreme Court in charge of the case against the Catalan separatists, also withdrew the arrest warrants he had issued against five other Catalan politicians who fled Spain to Belgium, Scotland and Switzerland.
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On Wednesday, Jordi Turull, a former member of the Catalan government, said it was "an insult to Catalan society" to suggest that a few leaders had manipulated more than 2 million voters into taking part in the October 2017 referendum.
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MADRID — Catalan activists on Monday marked the first anniversary of their disputed independence referendum by blocking train tracks and roads across Spain's restive northeastern region and trying to break into the Catalan Parliament, underlining how charged the conflict over separatism remains.
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A year after the referendum, Catalan society remains deeply split over whether the region should have been allowed to hold the vote, and some Catalan elected officials who defied the central government remain in jail or in self-imposed exile.
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PERPIGNAN (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Catalan independence supporters gathered in Perpignan, southern France, on Saturday at a rally in support of exiled former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont, who called on the crowd to prepare for the "definitive struggle" for independence.
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Torra was later handed an 18-month ban from public office for refusing to remove symbols supporting jailed Catalan activists from government buildings during an electoral campaign, and the electoral board stripped Torra of his seat in the Catalan parliament.
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Joan Tardà, a Catalan lawmaker, said his separatist party had rejected a budget that included higher spending in Catalonia because Mr. Sánchez was "running scared" from Spain's right-wing opposition and refusing an open negotiation with the Catalan independence movement.
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They may know, too, that following the illegal referendum on independence, Catalan separatist politicians, with 47 percent of the votes and a majority in the Catalan Parliament, decided to suspend the laws concerning the region's relationship with the central government.
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Last year the 20-year-old racked up over 1 million Youtube views in six months with her sugary Reggaetón-lite track "Indapanden" and now boasts the title of La Reina de Trap Catalan, or, The Queen of Catalan trap.
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For bulgogi, try a red like D'Anguerra Montsant, a biodynamic and organic Catalan garnacha.
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Rajoy has taken a harsh stance against Catalan separatism since taking power in 2011.
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Meanwhile, the Catalan regional government promised that whatever happens, the referendum will take place.
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We see the Catalan language as a tool of integration in our multilingual society.
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People wave pro-independence Catalan flags during a demonstration in Barcelona on Sept. 11.
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The Spanish government was accused of shutting down Catalan government websites on Oct. 1.
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Victor Dobaño pulls up the Telegram group that Catalan firefighters are using to organize.
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The Catalan president, Carles Puigdemont, is expected to formally declare independence on Oct. 10.
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Some demonstrators waved the Catalan flag at a protest in Hong Kong on Sunday.
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Spain's constitution states that the country is indivisible, and Catalan authorities held the Oct.
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Fachin gives a speech during a session of the Catalan parliament in Barcelona, Oct.
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Six Catalan lawmakers appeared Thursday for a parallel session in the Spain Supreme Court.
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The prime minister said he wants dialogue, as did Quim Torra, his Catalan counterpart.
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Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont has said the result is valid and must be implemented.
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The push for Catalan independence has brought about Spain's biggest political crisis in decades.
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The Catalan events pushed public opinion, traditionally slightly left of centre, to the right.
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Catalan business is desperate for the separatists to renounce the unilateral road to independence.
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Caixabank is Spain's third-largest bank and the biggest Catalan company by market value.
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The Catalan government plans to hold a "binding" referendum on independence on October 1st.
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Nearly 2,000 businesses have moved their headquarters out of Barcelona and other Catalan cities.
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As well as violating the Spanish constitution, these implicitly abolished the Catalan autonomy statute.
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Third, they seemed to believe their populist claim to speak for "the Catalan people".
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Stories of that repressive era are part of the lore of many Catalan families.
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Public schools now teach primarily in Catalan, and national symbols are flown with pride.
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The city hall flies Catalan and EU flags; the Spanish one has been removed.
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Perhaps most unexpected, Twitter downed 130 accounts from the Catalan independence movement in Spain.
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They're also working on German, Spanish, Catalan and Danish versions for launch in Q2.
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Catalan President Carles Puigdemont is due to address the regional parliament at 1600 GMT.
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The Catalan independence bid has unleashed a conservative reaction in the rest of Spain.
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Torra formally took office at a ceremony in the Catalan capital, Barcelona, on Thursday.
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Mr. Puigdemont, the new Catalan leader, has taken up where Mr. Mas left off.
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So the Catalan independence movement is a big danger for Spanish and European democracy.
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But the 17 Catalan nationalist deputies joined the opposition to vote it down nonetheless.
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But a spring election would take place against the background of the Catalan trial.
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LIKE Jaume Roures and Gerard Romy, two of its founders, Mediapro is proudly Catalan.
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To delve into the heart of Catalan culture, a hands-on approach is key.
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Catalan lawmakers have said they are prepared to go to jail over the issue.
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Catalan officials say more than 90 percent of those who voted in the Oct.
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In Spain, they shared lies about Catalan separatists shutting down a child cancer center.
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There's still a chance that the Catalan parliament could refuse to back the decree.
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Catalan Interior Minister Jordi Jané explained that there were 57 passengers on the bus.
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On Monday, the Catalan parliament nominated Puigdemont as its candidate to rule the region.
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He was moved to a police station in Tortosa on Friday, Catalan police said.
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Instead, Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont asked for further talks with the government of Spain.
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The Socialists insist that sooner or later the Catalan conflict requires a political solution.
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The party has vowed to be much tougher on both Catalan separatists and migrants.
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But he has ruled out independence and rejected a Catalan proposal for international mediation.
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"The Catalan high-class and middle-class have played to a revolution," he said.
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The Catalan crisis is merely the most dramatic sign that Spain's constitution needs updating.
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On Monday news emerged that Madrid's High Court had detained two Catalan separatist leaders.
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The EU feels deeply threatened by Catalan independence, as it does by all separatism.
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At the farthest end of the spectrum, take the Catalan Republic declared last week.
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Castañe's image depicts people dressed as devils during the traditional Catalan festival in Spain.
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Moreover, the new Catalan parliamentary majority may hesitate to confirm the October independence declaration.
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Bekaert said he was not acting out of political sympathy for the Catalan cause.
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He has positioned himself as a leader of select political causes, including Catalan separatism.
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The Catalan parliamentary committee, which has a pro-independence majority, must decide by Jan.
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As mayor, Ms. Colau has stayed on the fence in the Catalan independence dispute.
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Most often, the caganers depict an ordinary Catalan in a traditional floppy red hat.
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Nine Catalan politicians and pro-independence lobbyists are in jail in Madrid awaiting trial.
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Hundreds of pennants from non-Catalan fan clubs line the perimeter of its stadium.
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Mr. Puigdemont's fragile coalition has 72 of the 135 seats in the Catalan Parliament.
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Above, the room where Spanish senators are set to deliberate over suspending Catalan autonomy.
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Spain's attorney general may now seek to detain Catalan leaders on grounds of rebellion.
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Ms. Forcadell did not say how Catalan lawmakers would respond to the court order.
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Corporate departures could increase if the Catalan Parliament declares a unilateral declaration of independence.
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The dismissed Catalan leader, Carles Puigdemont, arrived in Belgium, where he may seek asylum.
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After three months of political turmoil, new Catalan elections are scheduled for Dec. 21.
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The European Union has sided wholly with the Madrid government, which rejects Catalan independence.
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He ousted the Catalan government and imposed direct rule on the formerly autonomous region.
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The former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont left for Belgium rather than face Spain's judiciary.
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Nevertheless, Catalan officials and many residents say they will find a way to vote.
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He continues to lead the Catalan independence movement from more than 800 miles away.
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The Constitutional Court has suspended every one of the initiatives of the Catalan government.
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The CUP is a small but pivotal force in the drive for Catalan independence.
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He said he will go to Catalan capital Barcelona for the meeting with Torra.
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Since the establishment of the 1978 Constitution, the Catalan community has acquired considerable autonomy.
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In 1999, Italy adopted a law to defend 12 historic minority languages, including Catalan.
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The two main Catalan separatist parties were also set to vote against Mr. Rajoy.
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Noting previous episodes, Catalan lawmakers banned the use of rubber bullets by the police.
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Other prominent Catalan politicians could run for office from a Madrid jail, pending trial.
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On Friday, the Catalan independence movement delivered a new show of force in Barcelona.
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Around 100 far-right activists set fire to the striped and starred Catalan flag.
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So it's all going swimmingly for Catalan as Kirkman's inner circle begins to fracture.
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People in Cambrils should "stay home, stay safe," Catalan emergency services said on Twitter.
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Five attackers wearing fake explosive belts were also shot dead in the Catalan town.
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Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont said the Spanish government had dismissed the idea of mediation.
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This year, I.C.E. officers raided the home of Wilmer Catalan-Ramirez, an undocumented immigrant.
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For the simple reason that a viable path to securing Catalan independence remains elusive.
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Since the transition to democracy, this movement has placed Catalan autonomy ahead of independence.
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Also: The Spanish government on the Catalan secession vote; too much information in friendship.
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Below are the main points of the Catalan legal framework that permitted the Oct.
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Spain's finance minister said it was the Catalan government's fault the companies were leaving.
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Two Catalan regional parties, the Catalan Democratic Party (PdeCat) and Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (ERC), as well as leftist Podemos have decided to abstain in the parliamentary vote to agree on a new deficit-cutting path, spokespeople for those parties told Reuters.
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The first is the bad blood left by an attempt by Mr Iceta's party to change Catalonia's statute of autonomy to give preferential status to the Catalan language, and to note formally that the Catalan parliament has defined the region as "a nation".
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He also called on Mr. Rajoy to end "the repression against the Catalan people and government," referring to a court summons issued for the chief of the autonomous Catalan police force and the two leaders of the main pro-independence citizens' movements.
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Article 155 would give Madrid the authority to suspend Mr. Puigdemont and other Catalan lawmakers, and to take charge of the region's autonomous administration, including the Catalan broadcaster and autonomous police force, although Mr. Rajoy has not publicly committed to an emergency intervention.
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The main Catalan conservative party embraced separatism in 2012, at the height of Spain's banking crisis, after Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's government refused to reduce the Catalan contribution to a Spanish tax system that redistributes money from the richest regions to poorer parts.
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Catalans tried to finesse greater autonomy for themselves, striking a deal in 2006 that was approved in a Catalan referendum — as well as by both Catalan and Spanish lawmakers — and one that might have forestalled the current crisis over yet more extreme demands.
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For days, anticipation had been building that Carles Puigdemont, the Catalan leader, would use his address before the Catalan regional Parliament to officially proclaim independence from Spain, after a week of informal suggestions that Catalonia had the right to secede following an Oct.
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Earlier this month, political parties that represent a minority of the Catalan people but hold a slight majority of seats in the Catalan Parliament passed a set of laws to hold the referendum and to "disconnect" Catalonia from the rest of Spain.
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Catalan independence parties have also garnered a boost after it was revealed this week that the interim home secretary of the governing centre-right government had plotted to frame leaders of the two main Catalan independence parties in a falsified corruption inquiry.
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But the move backfired as the secessionists retained a slim majority in the Catalan assembly.
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Spanish markets supported European shares after an opinion poll smoothed investors' concerns over Catalan secession.
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The Catalan government says 90 percent of Catalans voted for a breakaway in an Oct.
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The small CUP party had ousted Puigdemont's predecessor as Catalan president, Artur Mas, in 2015.
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Catalan political parties had until midnight on Tuesday to register coalitions ahead of the Dec.
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This could include firing the Barcelona government and assuming direct supervision of Catalan police forces.
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They also failed to pass this year's Catalan budget and are dogged by internal divisions.
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Another is that Catalan nationalism has mutated, largely because of the crisis, into intolerant separatism.
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Spain is entering its second week of protests over a court ruling regarding Catalan politicians.
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BARCELONA — Marta Rosique woke up on the morning of the Catalan referendum at 21 a.m.
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Assange tweeted about Tweety Bird's role as a symbol of Catalan independence on Sept. 28.
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