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1 day ago · ETA, [b] an acronym for Euskadi Ta Askatasuna [c] ("Basque Homeland and Liberty" [10] or "Basque Country and Freedom" [11] ), was an armed Basque nationalist and far-left [12] separatist organization in the Basque Country between 1959 and 2018, with its goal being independence for the region. The group was founded in 1959 during the era of ...
4 days ago · The Spanish government has voted on an Amnesty Law for Catalan independence activists. Catalan activist Anna Stanton, member of the anti-capitalist political party CUP, reflects on the double-edged nature of the law, and gives historic context of Spain’s repression of internal national independence movements. Protests in Barcelona on 14 ...
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5 days ago · Secondly, as it has been noted, the fact that the independence movement fails to win a government majority does not imply that independence platforms is not diffused and morphing, as it confirmed by the turn to neo-convergencia and the emergence of new political forces such as Aliança Catalana headed by Sílvia Orriols, the mayor of Ripoll (as the electoral map shows, the independence ...
3 days ago · With 89% of the vote counted, the Socialist Party of Catalonia won the Catalan regional elections on Sunday with 41 deputies, five more than the pro-independence Junts. The ruling ERC – also pro-independence – collapsed, winning 13 seats fewer than in the previous elections in 2021.
4 days ago · After the 2012 Catalan march for independence, in which between 600,000 and 1.5 million citizens marched, the President of Catalonia, Artur Mas, called for new parliamentary elections on 25 November 2012 to elect a new parliament that would exercise the right of self-determination for Catalonia, a right not recognised under the Spanish Cortes ...
4 days ago · May 17, 2024. Issue. 1406. World. In the Catalan regional election the vote for unionist candidacies rose, while that of pro-independence forces fell. Spanish unionism of all stripes — from the Party of Socialists of Catalonia (PSC) to the ultra-right and racist Vox — was crowing when the results of the May 12 Catalan elections became known.
1 day ago · Barcelona ( / ˌbɑːrsəˈloʊnə / ⓘ BAR-sə-LOH-nə, Catalan: [bəɾsəˈlonə] ⓘ, Spanish: [baɾθeˈlona] ⓘ) is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second-most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within city ...
