How the crisis in Catalonia is helping Rajoy consolidate power
Why the Spanish Prime Minister keeps choosing a strategy of confrontation.
Why the Spanish Prime Minister keeps choosing a strategy of confrontation.
Why did the Spanish state forcefully quash Catalonia’s referendum for independence? It is rooted in the country’s nearly 40-year dictatorship and its transition to democracy.
An expert explains why the EU is ill-equipped to handle a problem like Catalonia.
On Sunday, more than 2 million Catalans voted in a referendum on the question: Should Catalonia become an independent state? The vote was a milestone in the century-long struggle for self-determination…
Move by the senate in Madrid came just after the Catalan parliament voted for independence.
Despite the inevitable transition costs for both sides, there may also be some benefits to a split.
After a flurry of interest in the Scottish referendum, with the vote featuring on the front page of the New York Times and dominating nightly news programmes, Americans may now be wondering what all the…
A strange coincidence of historical circumstances in Spain could, taken together, help to bring about a resolution to the crisis in Catalonia.
Putin often uses words to mean exactly the opposite of what they normally do – a practice diagnosed by political author George Orwell as ‘doublespeak,’ or the language of totalitarians.
The single biggest party was anti-independence but together, the pro-independence bloc is stronger.