New US tariff could have €26m impact on Catalan food and drink exports
Government to meet next week to study 25% levy on American sales of products such as cheese, olive oil and wine
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Library of US Congress boasts over 10 million documents in Catalan
Institution has begun to digitize recordings by score of major writers from Catalonia, reports Catalunya Ràdio
Democrat and Republican US congressmen meet with Catalan president
American civil rights leader John Lewis among officials who talk to Quim Torra at Capitol, Washington DC
President goes to US to give talk at Martin Luther King Institute
Quim Torra will also meet business leaders, while ERC party holds meeting in Geneva with exiled secretary general
‘Medium’ credibility alert of terror attack in Barcelona
Catalan police passes information on local officers, as US consulate issues message telling citizens to “heighten caution” in La Rambla area
Catalan foreign minister contacts Native American officials to 'dissociate' himself from Spanish counterpart
Josep Borrell saying "four Indians" were killed during US independence shows "heartlessness and insensitivity," says Alfred Bosch
Catalan president walks out of US reception calling Spanish ambassador’s speech 'offensive'
Quim Torra calls for high-ranking diplomat’s resignation and demands explanation from Spanish government
Torra in Washington pledges to work until Republic is “internationally recognized”
“We have political prisoners and victims of repression again,” says president during Catalonia America Council inauguration
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High school team from Girona awarded in international competition
Government suspects Spanish pressure behind US Embassy statement on Catalan independence
The Catalan Government believes that the communiqué published by the US Embassy in Spain in relation to Catalonia was “a request of the Spanish Government motivated by the success of Puigdemont’s recent meetings with US representatives”. Puigdemont’s agenda in the US included a private meeting with former US President, Jimmy Carter, after which the institution said in a memo that “neither he nor The Carter Center could be involved” in the negotiations for the referendum. The Catalan executive told the CNA that the US Embassy's statement, published only in Spanish, which described Catalonia’s push for independence as an internal matter of Spain, “shows that the Catalan question is part of the political and diplomatic agenda and therefore is not an internal matter”.
Puigdemont denies having paid for meeting Carter and accuses Spain of embarrassing its own diplomats
The Catalan branch of the Conservative People’s Party (PPC) accused the Catalan Government of having paid for the Catalan President, Carles Puigdemont to meet with former US President, Jimmy Carter, last Friday in Atlanta. “This is not only false but indecent,” said Puigdemont in an interview with Catalunya Ràdiothis Monday. Such accusations, made by PPC’s leader Xavier García Albiol and supported by the main opposition party in the Catalan Parliament, Spanish unionist ‘Ciutadans’, prove Spain’s mindset, which “insists on treating Catalonia as a colony,” he added. Puigdemont also criticized the aim of the PP and Spanish Government to spread the idea that the Catalan executive “does not have the right”to explain its situation abroad. He said that some Spanish diplomats “feel uncomfortable”with the Spanish executive’s directions, which include “having to criticize”the Catalan Government and “blocking”events and meetings.