The politics behind Catalonian secession is what makes independence impossible.
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They have shows planned in Barcelona, Tarragona and other Catalonian cities.
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Interest in the Catalonian stand-off is perhaps to be expected.
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That's why Catalonian cartoonist Joan Cornellà's warped, heartbreakingly horrible paintings are perfect for us.
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He has specifically been focused on the pro-unity side of Catalonian independence battles.
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The region is braced for mass demonstrations against any move to strip Catalonian autonomy.
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"A unilateral declaration of Catalonian independence would be irresponsible," Gabriel said in a statement.
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His parents, Juan Servitje Torrallardona and Josefina Sendra, were the children of Catalonian peasants.
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For Scottish, Catalonian or Flemish voters, such considerations may well make secession look less daunting.
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"The message is crystal clear: Catalonian independence is not going to happen," De Guindos said.
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He addressed the Spanish parliament, had a medal bestowed upon him by the Catalonian assembly.
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Four suspects were shot dead, and a fifth later died of his injuries, Catalonian police said.
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"Uncertainty about whether Catalonian parliament will meet on Monday persists," Commerzbank strategists said in a note.
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Catalonian-based banks, Banco de Sabadell and Caixabank, both fell over 5 percent on the day.
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Most recently, Spain's leading daily, El País, reported on Russian meddling in the Catalonian independence referendum.
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However, on Friday morning the Catalonian government said that it will meet despite the court order.
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FG: That-, so, I don't think there will be any particular effect in the Catalonian economy.
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Another police official said the group, known as Rouvikonas, had been demonstrating in favor of Catalonian independence.
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Catalonian emergency services confirm that six civilians and a police officer were injured in the Cambrils attack.
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" For his part, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has told Catalonian politicians to "stop this radicalism and disobedience.
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A Spanish judge also issued a new European arrest warrant for Carles Puigdemont, the former Catalonian leader.
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Go here to donate to Casa Nostra Casa Vostra, a Catalonian charity supporting refugees in the area.
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In particular, he reportedly upset those sheltering him when he vocally supported Catalonian secessionists in Spain last year.
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Barring other developments, as yet unscheduled Catalonian elections should show the way of democratic solutions to Spain's unity.
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Triggering the little-understood convention would allow Madrid to suspend the Catalonian regional parliament and seize full control.
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One of the leading investors in Catalonian bonds believes the region's bid for independence was always legally doubtful.
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He was a member of the Catalonian Parliament and supportive of the region's independence from the rest of Spain.
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The attention she has received has spread to her relatives as her Catalonian uncle was interviewed on local radio.
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Spanish lender CaixaBank made the right choice in changing headquarters during the Catalonian crisis, the bank's chairman said Wednesday.
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Her photos in the exhibition were captured during their early years together in the Catalonian beachside town of Portlligat.
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Freixenet, the leading producer of Catalonian sparkling wine, cava, also said it would relocate if Catalonia declared unilateral independence.
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Madrid has invoked special constitutional powers to dismiss the Catalonian regional government and force elections to counter the independence movement.
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A possible way out of the Spanish-Catalonian impasse would be for the European Union to mediate a negotiated solution.
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Last July, the Catalonian Parliament debated a report on the road map to independence in Catalonia, and voted on it.
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Madrid has invoked special constitutional powers to dismiss the Catalonian regional government and force elections, to counter the independence movement.
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The subject over the last month has been the red wines of Montsant, from the Catalonian region of northeastern Spain.
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Unlike the Catalonian referendum, which sparked a political crisis in Spain, the Italian votes were legal, but not binding on Rome.
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I sprang for a bottle of Catalonian orange wine fermented in amphorae, which turned out to be a fine acidic accompaniment.
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Spain said on Saturday that only 163 voting sites were occupied, far below the 443,315 stations that Catalonian officials had promised.
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Strongly opposed to Catalonian secession, the central government in Madrid had earlier lodged an appeal against the referendum at the constitutional court.
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Míriam Plana is an activist for Engineering Without Borders Catalonia and Aigua és Vida, a Catalonian citizen platform working toward public water management.
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In addition, the Public Diplomacy Council of Catalonia also tweeted a total of 12 Catalonian government officials had been detained by the police.
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Carles Puigdemont, the Catalonian leader, said in an interview published on Friday that the Spanish government had deliberately underfunded the region's police force.
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The gap between Catalonian ES0000950E= and Spanish ES0000126C= bonds widened rapidly to its highest level in over a year after the banned Oct.
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Catalonian separatists portray themselves (though it is a stretch, given Spain's modern democratic nature) as the freedom-seeking victims of a still-Francoist state.
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WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange both played a large role in the US campaign and were out in force advocating for Catalonian independence.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Sacked Catalonian leader Carles Puigdemont has turned himself in to Belgian police, Belgian public broadcaster VRT said on Sunday, citing a source.
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Gold edged higher on Friday, reversing earlier losses after the Catalonian parliament's independence declaration from Spain led investors to seek safety from political upheaval.
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Early on Monday, the Spanish government gave Catalonian leadership three days to declare whether it will try to secede from Spain and claim independence.
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According to Catalonian authorities, 90 percent of people voted in favor of independence on Sunday, but the national government said the referendum was illegal.
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Police on Saturday entered the Catalonian regional government's telecommunications and information technology center after a court on Friday ordered them to stop electronic voting.
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Still, if it achieved majority support it could provoke the Catalonian government to unilaterally declare independence, which would create a political crisis in Spain.
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Mass protests for Catalonian independence have cropped up in recent years, with between 232,2300 and 22014 million people taking to the streets in Barcelona.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Scotland's independence-minded devolved government said it respected the position of the Catalonian regional government that declared independence from Spain on Friday.
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Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem, and Ramon Vilalta are the principals at RCR Arquitectes, a small studio in Olot, a Catalonian town known for welcoming immigrants.
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On Friday, Spain fired the Catalonian regional government and dismissed the Catalan parliament after political leaders defied Madrid and made a unilateral declaration of independence.
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"We were exiting from the main political problems in Europe and now this Catalonian issue risks bringing a new virus and new chaos," he added.
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Other Spanish areas, including the Basque country, have voiced their wish for independence from Madrid and are certainly monitoring Rajoy's reaction to the Catalonian movement.
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It seemed like an unlikely place for a North Korean-themed cafe: a small, inconspicuous doorway in an anonymous street in a quiet Catalonian city.
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Update: This post has been updated to note the courts declared the Catalonian referendum illegal before the vote, and to correct a quote from Seguín.
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Go deeper: Catalan government says 90% voted for independence from Spain Former Catalonian president's arrest sets off massive protests Catalonia's economy suffered from independence push
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BRUSSELS, Nov 5 (Reuters) - Sacked Catalonian leader Carles Puigdemont has turned himself in to Belgian police, Belgian public broadcaster VRT said on Sunday, citing a source.
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ATHENS (Reuters) - Self-proclaimed anarchists burst into the Spanish embassy in Athens on Wednesday and threw leaflets in favor of Catalonian independence, an embassy official said.
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The Catalonian administration had planned to convert into longer-term debt three redemptions maturing in November and December 4 and January 28414 with a financial institution.
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Spanish prosecutors in Madrid have brought rebellion, sedition, and embezzlement charges against Catalonian leader Carles Puigdemont and other members of parliament involved in the independence vote.
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De Guindos told CNBC Thursday that he believed no economy could thrive without the rule of law and that the Catalonian government was not acting rationally.
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The Catalan government, led by Puigdemont, has consistently argued that the "yes" vote provides the Catalonian region with a mandate to announce a split from Spain.
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In the days after, the headquarters of the major Catalonian banks — Caixa and Sabadell — and the water and gas companies announced they would leave the region.
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The three founded their practice, RCR Arquitectes, in 1988, and most of their buildings are near where they live and work, Olot, a small Catalonian city.
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Calçots (Catalonian green onions) were chucked directly onto the hot embers; their blackened outer skin was stripped away to reveal a delicately silky, leeklike inner flesh.
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But it could also help him to secure the survival of his minority government with the aid of Catalonian pro-independence parties in return for more autonomy.
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Mourn, "Storyteller": Precocious Catalonian punks Mourn are releasing their new LP Ha, Ha, He. on June 3rd, and "Storyteller" is the second track they've revealed to date.
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Under '155', Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy is expected to submit to the Spanish senate a list of actions that the government will take against the Catalonian government.
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The Catalan government, led by Carles Puigdemont, has consistently argued that the "yes" vote provides the Catalonian region with a mandate to announce a split from Spain.
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By galvanizing local public support through scenes of excessive Spanish police presence, the Catalonian parliament will likely proceed to an early vote for a declaration of independence.
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He cited escalating tensions between the U.S. and North Korea, an upcoming election in Italy and the ongoing turmoil regarding Catalonian independence as potential flashpoints for investors.
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The downfall of the Catalonian independence movement won't be the result of economic problems or financial insecurity, but political contradictions and socialist dreams of a participatory democracy.
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Workers are set to strike Tuesday at noon, while people are planning to protest at the Madrid government's Catalonian headquarters on Tuesday evening, the Associated Press reported.
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And if only to prove their power, the Spanish central government even relocated some artifacts from a Catalonian museum using the might of law enforcement officials. 18.
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Especially instructive should be one of the Catalonian separatists' arguments for leaving Spain: that their region is the wealthiest, and they'd like to stop subsidizing the rest.
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The presence of Spain's king and prime minister alongside Catalonia's regional authorities marked a rare moment when the question of Catalonian independence — the subject of a proposed Oct.
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Spanish political and business leaders, along with most Catalonian newspapers, have urged Catalan President Carles Puigdemont to call a regional election before he is stripped of his authority.
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Things have already gone so far that the depressive economic impact of the Catalonian quest for independence will transcend Spain's 12 percent share of the euro area's economy.
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The heavy-handed attempt by the Spanish government to prevent a Catalonian independence referendum from taking place sets the stage for a prolonged period of Spanish political instability.
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The Mediterranean region of Catalonian is thronged in the summer months with tourists drawn to its beaches and the port city of Barcelona's museums and tree-lined boulevards.
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In Europe, the fallout from Brexit and more recently Catalonian demands for independence from Spain could also stoke higher defaults and widen yield spreads in the longer term.
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The Mediterranean region of Catalonian is thronged in the summer months with visitors drawn to its beaches and the port city of Barcelona's museums and tree-lined boulevards.
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The Pritzker Prize jury just awarded architecture's highest honor to RCR Arquitectes, a little-known trio of designers working from a small town in the Catalonian region of Spain.
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For the last month, hundreds of thousands of people have joined demonstrations in Spain to voice their objection to the jailing of Catalan separatist leaders and support Catalonian independence.
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History is often repeated in its simplest form, and Madrid's violent response to the Catalonian independence referendum held this October has brought back ugly memories, and fueled separatist sentiments.
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TARRAGONA, Spain (Reuters) - The Catalonian government on Thursday launched its official campaign for an independence referendum, which Madrid has declared illegal, buoyed by the support of the capital Barcelona.
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Similar calls are made by the National Front in France and the Brexiteers in Britain, yet Catalonian nationalism is portrayed as harmless and even righteous by the international media.
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On the particular issue of Catalonian independence, Barroso said there would be a change in tone from the incoming administration, but there would be no solution for both sides.
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The group drew inspiration from the Vienna Actionists, a transgressive, performance-based collective formed in the 22015s, and La Fura del Baus, a Catalonian theater group founded in 1979.
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He recently spoke on social media about a diplomatic crisis between London and Moscow as well as about Catalonian separatism, despite warnings by Ecuador to avoid controversial political subjects.
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He also cited a growing willingness by global investors to tune out political controversy, be it concerns about Catalonian independence from Spain or the latest tweet from President Trump.
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The Icelandic domain's Alexa ranking was around 136,000 globally, and the Catalonian one is at 368,000, compared to the old domain's rank in the 13,000 range as of April 2017.
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In Barcelona, the Catalonian capital, TV3 is part of a corporation whose executive board is chosen by the Catalan Parliament — and which gave an equally nuance-free pro-independence perspective.
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The flowers allude to Sant Jordi's legendary slaying of the dragon and liberation of a princess, which—according to local lore—took place in the Catalonian fortress town of Montblanc.
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Why it matters: Tensions between Spain and Catalonia have been running high for months, culminating in a seconds-long Catalonian declaration of independence earlier this month after a contested referendum.
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In recent weeks, a stream of Catalonia-based firms and banks have moved their legal bases outside the regionas a crisis over a Catalonian push for independence from Spain deepened.
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Editorial Spain is determined to prevent a Catalonian referendum on independence, even though its tough attitude toward Catalan leaders has probably only increased enthusiasm for a measure with questionable support.
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Plainclothes officers from the Catalonian police force, the Mossos, had appeared in her office, asking to see her identification and noting her home address and the names of her parents.
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The international exposure is too small to create ripples across the euro zone even in the event of a Catalonian default, and the effect on Spain would also be limited.
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"A Catalonian vote for independence by itself would be very unlikely to lead to negative rating action on the Kingdom of Spain," DBRS said in an emailed statement to Reuters.
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MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's central government is seeing if it can bring criminal charges against the speaker of the Catalonian parliament for letting the assembly vote for independence, it said on Friday.
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International diversification among many corporates, such as Telefonica, Iberdrola, OHL, Aldesa and Ferrovial, could also help cushion them if Catalonian secession had a negative economic impact for the rest of Spain.
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MADRID/BARCELONA (Reuters) - Sacked Catalonian president Carles Puigdemont on Saturday called for peaceful "democratic opposition" to the central government's takeover of the region following its unilateral declaration of independence from Spain.
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During a sun-dappled summer in the Catalonian countryside, a newly orphaned 6-year-old girl is transplanted from her Barcelona apartment to the rural home of her aunt and uncle.
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"The falcon is shaping this great living sculpture that is the starling cloud," says Xavi Bou, a Catalonian photographer whose dazzling series Ornitographies visualizes the patterns birds make through the air.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Spanish government bonds and stocks were in demand on Thursday after a media report said Catalonian President Carles Puigdemont was set to call a snap regional election for Dec.
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"We have not witnessed any relevant statement or signal by the separatists that would hint at a change of strategy ahead of today's discussion in the Catalonian parliament," economists at Barclays wrote.
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During a protest in Figures, Spain, on April 5, people wear white masks in support of Catalonian politicians jailed on charges of sedition and condemning the arrest of Catalonia's former president Carles Puigdemont.
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Former Catalonian vice-president Oriol Junqueras, former cabinet member Joaquim Forn and two leaders of civic groups ANC and Omnium Cultural, faced with charges of sedition, have been refused bail, Spain's Supreme Court.
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"It shouldn't be possible that thousands of apartments are operating without a license, illegally, without paying tax and at the peril of neighboring residents," Colau said on a Catalonian radio channel on Thursday.
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The weekend will wind down on Sunday (5/1, 6–8PM) at the beautiful French-Catalonian restaurant Cassette (113 Franklin Street), where there will be free food and a drink for participating artists.
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Wednesday morning, Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy announced that he will be suspending Catalonian political autonomy and taking direct control of the region in an attempt to foil the recent moves toward independence.
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The party was seen as an outlet for those fed up with the PP. It was also established as an antidote to Catalonian nationalism, since it strongly opposed the idea of Catalan secession.
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Several news reports state that Spain's Guardia Civil entered several departments of the Catalonian government this morning, arresting a junior minister, as they continue to seek more material related to the independence movement.
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Miquel Buch, the Catalonian interior minister, told reporters on Friday morning that while firefighters were making progress, the day would prove particularly challenging as temperatures were expected to stay above 2000 degrees Celsius.
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"I'd make the account pretend to be in favor of Catalonian independence and as soon as you post anything about Catalonia and independence you get dozens of friend requests from indepentists," the seller said.
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The relatives had asked for a truce for the occasion in the messy politics ensuing from a declaration of Catalonian independence last October which prompted Madrid to impose direct rule, but tensions crept in.
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BARCELONA (Reuters) - The pro-independence head of the Catalonian government said on Wednesday he planned to call a snap regional election in a move that could have a major impact on Spain's national politics.
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The previous president and other members of the Catalonian government are to be put on trial merely for organizing a public consultation in 2014 on independence in which more than 2.3 million Catalans participated.
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Mas was ousted as regional leader last year in a power struggle between rival independence factions, but the 60-year-old remains an important figure as head of Convergencia, the ruling Catalonian pro-independence party.
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Still, there is little evidence to presume that Franco's removal from his resting place of four-decades can ameliorate current socio-political tensions deriving from topics like corruption, Catalonian independence, and the enduring migrant crisis.
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The reality is that given that there have been missteps on all sides in the Catalonian crisis, Brussels can do little more in the immediate situation than put pressure on both sides behind closed doors.
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The longer-term responsibility of the European Union's political leaders is to deal with the causes, not the symptoms, of the growing power of populist forces, of which the Catalonian independence movement is just one.
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The Catalan question remains an open wound in Spanish politics, one that's particularly acute during these elections because 230 separatist Catalonian leaders are currently on trial for rebellion, a televised affair that's captivating the country.
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A heavy metal rendition of the Catalonian national anthem "Els Segadors," or "The Reapers" has turned a virtually unknown Virginia-based band, A Sound of Thunder, into celebrities in the politically sensitive region in northeastern Spain.
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Spanish stocks and bond prices, which had rallied on Thursday, were sent tumbling back again as a Catalonian official said the region's parliament would meet on Monday in defiance of a ruling by Spain's constitutional court.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Political corruption is so commonplace in the Spanish government that the average Catalonian will cite it existence as a principle reason for the wealthy, autonomous region's perennial bid for secession.
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Upon witnessing Pierre and Echo engage in the ancient canine ritual of booping snoots, Sebastian, a one-year-old Catalonian boy in a Mickey Mouse shirt, let out a primal scream that lasted a full minute.
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SANT BOI DE LLOBREGAT, Spain — Standing in front of his apartment across from barracks occupied by Spain's national police, Xavi Gomez recounted the dueling protests over Catalonian independence that unfolded on his street the previous night.
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This is, therefore, a majority demand that Catalonian institutions plan to carry out in September, even though the Spanish government has stonewalled and obstructed all efforts by Catalonia to reach an agreement on holding a vote.
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Unfolding during a sun-dappled summer in the Catalonian countryside, this autobiographical debut (culled from the childhood memories and family stories of the writer and director, Carla Simón) is light on drama yet dense with unspoken feeling.
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Costarela ($120), from the Catalonian house founded by Sara Carner, relies on a fizzy top note of bergamot and a buttery hint of saffron on top of a marine base, creating a kind of wearable boating cocktail.
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Spain's election outcome will do little to settle the political problems the country faces, including the question of Catalonia, which is still paralyzing the country's politics more than a year after the illegal 2017 Catalonian independence referendum.
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Laurent Gaetani, head of Degroof Petercam Gestion France, said he was "surprised by the impact" of the Catalonian crisis on markets given that a process leading to effective independence for the province is still widely seen as unlikely.
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Catalonian government spokeswoman Elsa Artadi said that maintaining a dialogue was the necessary condition for the approval of the budget, and Madrid walking out of it would mean that "the likelihood of the budget approval is more distant".
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We expected at the time of our latest sovereign rating review in July that the planned vote would be declared unconstitutional by the Spanish courts and that tensions between the central and Catalonian regional governments would ratchet up.
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Catalan pro-independence figure and leader of the regional government Carles Puigdemont, said on Monday that he saw the vote as binding and plans to take the referendum results to the Catalonian parliament in the next few days.
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MADRID (Reuters) - Catalonian leaders on Friday appealed to the Spanish government for dialogue to avert an impending political crisis over a planned referendum on independence as Madrid took measures to stop state cash being used to fund the vote.
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The point of the editorial was that much of the Spanish government's problem with Catalonian separatism is due to Madrid's antagonism, mismanagement and incompetence, which have fortified the appeal for a measure that may not truly have deep support.
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Catalonian Vice President Pere Aragones from the pro-independence ERC party blamed the failure to advance on the Sanchez government, which he said had ceded to pressure from the Spanish right and far-right in refusing to even discuss independence.
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No sooner did German Chancellor Angela Merkel have her political authority seriously undermined by the surprisingly strong showing of the extreme right in the recent parliamentary elections when a divisive drive for Catalonian independence got into full swing in Spain.
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What is happening in Catalonia is a judicial assault by Spain on Catalonian democracy and freedom of speech, an assault that violates the principle of the separation of powers that is the foundation of the rule of law in this country.
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They also continue to work on projects in their Catalonian home turf, like the Tussols-Basil athletics track, completed in 2000, and the covered open-air Les Cols restaurant in 2011, with plastic walls of trees, between which real trees grow.
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Opinion polls have indicated that less than half of the region's residents support independence — though a majority want to vote on the region's future — and crowds gathered on Saturday in Catalonian cities and towns to call for unity with Spain.
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Airbnb is facing a further squeeze on its activities in Barcelona, the Catalonian capital that's hugely popular with tourists — ramping up tension with local communities dealing with inflating rents and rowdy behavior by visitors facilitated by the rapid rise of sharing-economy platforms.
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If the Catalonian government decides to push for full independence, it could lead to a bitter secession which would deprive Spain of the prosperous region that accounts for about a fifth of its economy and damage the country's ability to service its debt.
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" €3.53bn book is less than BBVA, but the split-rated debut of the Catalonian champion reconfirmed the general desire by investors to get involved in the higher yielding non-preferred sector from peripheral countries," said Armin Peter, UBS's global head of syndicate.
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I launched into the usual breakup routine: stocking up on Kleenex, getting a dramatic haircut, wondering what that Catalonian winemaker I turned down a few months ago was up to, and keeping my distance from Henry in the weeks after the fallout.
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The prospect of early Spanish elections is all too likely to complicate any effort by the Spanish government to find an early, negotiated way out of the Catalonian crisis, which could mean that Spain is in for a prolonged period of political instability.
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Using figures from official European and Catalonian organizations, Business Insider claimed earlier this year that the region would quickly gain about 16 billion euros yearly in the case of a split, as they would no longer have to pay taxes to Spain.
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Our faux client's meal might include a starter of sesame-crusted tuna with a fennel and orange salad and an entree of giant grilled prawns with a Catalonian vegetable salad; the cost, with some good wine from their extensive list: 1503 euros.
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The move comes nearly six months after the Ecuadorean government suspended Assange's communications in March, after he discussed issues on social media that could damage the country's diplomatic relations, including a diplomatic crisis between London and Moscow as well as Catalonian separatism.
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It may be several days until the final vote numbers are made public, and though critics have undermined the integrity of the referendum as well as its legality, the Catalonian Justice Minister Carlos Mundó asserted that Sunday's results would be binding regardless of participation levels.
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The reason given at the time was that he opposed the military dictatorship in Argentina; years later, however, he revealed to a Catalonian radio station that he and his family had been subjected to a kidnapping attempt in Barcelona a few months before the tournament.
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It banned the use of non-Castilian languages and imposed strict restrictions on Barcelona and Bilbao, including making them change their names from the Catalonian "Futbol Club Barcelona" and the Basque "Athletic Bilbao" to their Castilian equivalents, "Club de Fútbol Barcelona" and "Atlético Bilbao".
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But the cheerful Spanish-born José Andrés, who cooked at elBulli, Ferran Adrià's Catalonian bastion of avant-garde cuisine, before moving, in 1993, to D.C., where he laid the groundwork, with Jaleo, for an empire (he now has more than thirty restaurants), is the exception.
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There was little impact on Spanish bonds after Madrid said at the weekend it would take the unprecedented step of firing the Catalonian government in a bid to thwart the region's push for independence and to calm fears of turmoil in the euro zone's fourth biggest economy.
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For these reasons, the leaders of the Kurdish and Catalonian separatist movements might do well to take step a back from the precipice of partition and seek a political solution to addressing their grievances while remaining part of the country from which they seek to secede.
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The trouble extends out of the inspector's front door into the streets of Perpignan, a Catalonian city in Southern France where a string of violent crimes — beginning with a murder in a seedy hotel — underscore the book's theme of betrayal and test the heartsick cop's investigative skills.
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Even though Spain's wealthiest region has a bigger economy than Greece, Portugal and Finland, relatively unfazed Spanish and Catalonian assets to date shows markets are treating the crisis ovr Catalonia as a largely domestic issue with few if any systemic sovereign, banking or euro wide threats.
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In perhaps the clearest signal yet that the era of the solo celebrity architect is behind us, three friends who hung out a shingle in their Catalonian hometown, Olot, Spain, 30 years ago and never left or parted ways have won their profession's highest honor: the Pritzker Prize.
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Spain, like other European countries are also dealing with fears of an economic downtown, made worse by the uncertainty of Brexit in the UK. And within Spain, the sentences in the Catalonian separatists trials are expected this fall, which relate to the illegal independence referendum Catalonia held in 2017.
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KultO's chefs, Laura López and José Fuentes, are particularly imaginative when it comes to tuna, offering it skewered as a Thai-style satay, raw as a spicy tartar interspersed with creamy guacamole and crunchy fried corn, and stewed with mushrooms in a fricandó, a Catalonian specialty traditionally made with veal.
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A perfect example was, as cases spiked in Spain, we saw bot armies beginning to spread Spanish-language posts on social media that pushed theories about American responsibility but also using tensions over the Catalonian separatist movements to claim the government was going to ignore one ethnic group in favor of another.
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In the first decade of the 20th century, Pablo Picasso synthesized these considerably diverse elements into a budding Cubism, first glimpsed in his experimental painting "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" (1907) — which is not included in the show — and then in his "Houses on the Hill, Horta de Ebro" (1909), a painting of the Catalonian town of Horta de San Joan.
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Update: A Cabify spokeswoman has now sent us the following statement: After reviewing the Decree Law approved by the Generalitat Catalonian Government, which has been officially published today, the company concludes that this regulation has the single objective, and therefore also as a final consequence, to forced Cabify out of Barcelona as well as it collaborating companies in Catalonia and Barcelona.
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