talks

Esquerra wants JxCat to support their candidate within two weeks, as no agreement before May 26 would mean fresh election

Pedro Sánchez warns of “electoral noise” ahead of resumption of talks that were halted during the health crisis

Friction among governing pro-independence parties as Supreme Court might oust president and Congress to vote on JxCat MP's immunity

Spain denies need for intermediary figure saying "all citizens" would be witnesses to negotiations

Parties signed up to bilateral summit also reject former minister Ponsatí's accusation that dialogue between governments is a "con" 

Joint statement released with a commitment to ensuring that any agreements reached are "within the framework of legal certainty"

Catalan government laments absence of Puigdemont, Junqueras and others due to 'prison and exile'

Spain is even closer to snap election after Sánchez’s second failed congressional vote

Spanish Congress speaker: 'Only people who are physically able to attend can be selected by their parties to do so'

Jordi Sànchez, suspended Spanish MP, wants permission to take part in round of talks led by monarch

Torrent starts round of talks with party leaders to set date for choosing president “as soon as possible”

Catalan President, Carles Puigdemont, responded to the report published this Wednesday by the newspaper ‘La Vanguardia’ revealing that Puigdemont and Spanish President, Mariano Rajoy, met secretly on the 11th of January. “There are no negotiations and they are not expected either”, he stated during the plenary session. The Catalan President added that “as soon as such negotiations happen to take place” the Parliament “will have all the information required”. Rajoy has neither confirmed nor denied that such a secret meeting between the two representatives took place. The report came after the delegate of the Spanish Government in Catalonia, Enric Millo, unleashed the controversy by assuring that the Spanish and the Catalan governments have held meetings “at all levels” and that some of them “were not made public”.

Catalan President Carles Puigdemont called once again for the Spanish Government to lay their proposal for Catalonia on the table, in the case that they have one. “We do have a concrete proposal, which is clear and has been endorsed by the citizens”, he said this Monday in Toulouse, after meeting with the MEDEF Occitanie, a French businessmen’s association. “If the Spanish State has any proposal which we are not aware of, we call them to put it on the table”, he added and emphasised that Catalonia has long been willing to negotiate. The “problem”, he lamented, is that there is no one to negotiate with. Puigdemont’s statements came after the delegate of the Spanish Government in Catalonia, Enric Millo, assured that the dialogue between both governments “exists at all levels” and that the Government in Madrid “is working to find a way out” of the political situation in Catalonia.

Delay aims to provide more scope for action on talks between Arabs and Palestinians