Spain's Catalonia to elect new leader as ex-leader Puigdemont's arrest looms
The parliament of Spain's Catalonia region is set to elect a new leader this week, although the event may be upstaged by the return of its former
August 06, 2024The parliament of Spain's Catalonia region is set to elect a new leader this week, although the event may be upstaged by the return of its former
August 06, 2024Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev pledged on Saturday to help France's overseas territories secure independence, the latest in a series of incidents
July 20, 2024The Federal Reserve is highlighting the importance of its political independence at a time when Donald Trump, who frequently attacked the Fed’s policymaking in the past, edges closer to formally becoming the Republican nominee for president again
July 05, 2024Police in New Caledonia arrested protest leader Christian Tein on Wednesday at the headquarters of the biggest pro-independence political party, the Caledonian Union, as he prepared to
July 01, 2024Spain's Supreme Court on Monday upheld arrest warrants for Catalonia's former leader and others charged with embezzlement over the region's
July 01, 2024New Caledonia's pro-independence political party has told French President Emmanuel Macron it can't persuade protesters to remove roadblocks across the French
June 20, 2024The French Pacific territory of New Caledonia is shortening its overnight curfew and reopening its international airport that was closed to commercial flights for more than a month because of deadly violence
June 16, 2024Monetary policy can be wielded as a tool to boost an economy around election time, which explains why politicians want to have a say on it.
June 14, 2024Catalonia's outgoing president said on Monday he would quit politics after his separatist party's disastrous showing in the region's election that saw Spain's
May 28, 2024Spain's Catalonia region holds an election on Sunday with big implications for the Socialist-led national government and a pro-independence movement rumbling for a
May 25, 2024Scottish National Party (SNP) veteran John Swinney was elected as its new leader on Monday and is set to replace Humza Yousaf as Scotland's first minister after he
May 21, 2024French security forces are working to retake control of the highway to the international airport in violence-scorched New Caledonia, shuttered because of deadly unrest wracking the French Pacific archipelago where indigenous people have long sought independence from France
May 19, 2024Violence is raging across New Caledonia for the third consecutive day
May 16, 2024Scotland's leader Humza Yousaf resigned on Monday, further imperilling more than a decade of governance by the Scottish National Party (SNP) and setting back its
May 14, 2024Spain’s ruling Socialist party scored a crucial victory in regional elections in the powerful northeastern region of Catalonia, garnering the most seats and dealing a blow to the region’s two main separatist parties that have governed for decades
May 13, 2024Scotland's leader faced a fight for his political future on Thursday as opponents said they would try to oust him after his once dominant pro-
May 10, 2024About 6 million Catalans are called to cast ballots in regional elections on Sunday that will surely have reverberations in Spain's national politics
May 10, 2024A former head of the Scottish National Party is expected to be Scotland's next leader
May 06, 2024Scotland’s leader has cancelled a speech as he fights for his political life in the wake of his decision to pull the plug on a three-year power-sharing agreement
April 26, 2024Taiwan has shown it is already independent and sovereign by electing its own president and has no need for a separate declaration of independence, the frontrunner to be the island's
April 26, 2024Spain’s Parliament is set to give its initial approval Thursday to a controversial amnesty bill aimed at forgiving crimes — both proved and alleged — committed by Catalan separatists during a chaotic attempt to hold an independence referendum six years ago
March 14, 2024The regional president of Catalonia has called an early election for May 12 after his minority government failed to pass a budget for Spain’s wealthy northeast region that includes Barcelona
March 13, 2024Catalan separatist lawmakers have dealt Spain’s government a blow by voting against a hugely divisive amnesty law that was aimed at helping hundreds of their supporters involved in Catalonia’s unsuccessful 2017 independence bid
January 30, 2024Spain’s Socialist Party has struck a deal with a fringe Catalan separatist party to grant an amnesty for potentially thousands of people involved in the region’s failed secession bid in exchange for its key backing of acting Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez to form a new government
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