Politics

There was “no better business” during the past years than launching a website supporting independence, says Spanish government

First event of parties in the December 21 run-up show polarization between pro-independence and unionist blocs, with only one party outside fronts

The electoral campaign starts this midnight amid political and judicial developments that make the results highly unpredictable

They are released after paying a €100,000 bail, while four other pro-independence leaders stay behind bars

Dolors Bassa and Meritxell Borràs are the first officials to be released on bail of 100,000 euros

Catalan president and ministers in Brussels finish their three-hour hearing in the EU capital

"We’ll turn sadness into energy, and we won’t stop until you’re free," says Catalan Parliament president Carme Forcadell

The Catalan president and his ministers in Belgium to testify one day before the electoral campaign starts

President Puigdemont says his candidacy aims to continue ‘road to independence’

Major parties running in December 21 election hold events just days before campaign officially kicks off

“Explicit instructions” from Spain’s foreign office ordered “all staff” to be fired on November 30 under application of Article 155

Spain's Attorney General to maintain request of preemptive imprisonment without bail for ministers and civil society leaders

Program’s host spoke of jailed political leaders and others abroad, and criticized Spanish takeover of Catalonia's self-rule

Eight ministers and two civil society leaders imprisoned for their role in Catalonia’s push for independence appear before judge Pablo Llanera

‘You have to leave prison, you should never have been there in the first place,’ says the Catalan president from Belgium