"We remain inside the Italian nation with more autonomy while Catalonia wants to become the 29th state of the European Union. We, no. Not for now." He speaks of Catalonia as a competitor in some ...

Some three decades later, as secessionist tensions erupt in Catalonia, the soaring dream of that folkloric Italian state has, well, not come fully crashing down but largely evaporated. The party ...

Puigdemont headed Catalonia's regional government at the time of a plebiscite on independence that Spanish courts say was illegal. Italian police arrested the 58-year-old on Sept. 23 after he flew ...

Three weeks after Catalonia held its sensational referendum on independence from Spain, two regions in northern Italy will ask their own people how they want to be governed. Coincidence? Well... yes.

Leonid Bershidsky, formerly Bloomberg Opinion’s Europe columnist, is a member of the Bloomberg News Automation Team. He recently published Russian translations of George Orwell’s “1984” an ...

MILAN (Reuters Breakingviews) - Italy's wealthy north can teach Catalonia a lesson in demanding self-rule. Voters in Lombardy and Veneto, which together make up around 30 percent of Italian gross ...

MADRIDMADRID — Italian rider Sonny Colbrelli collapsed and had to be rushed to a hospital after the first stage of the Catalonia Volta on Monday. Team Bahrain Victorious said Colbrelli was in ...

CALELLA, Spain (AP) — Davide Cimolai of Italy won the opening stage of the Tour of Catalonia by less than a wheel on Monday. The FDJ rider pushed his wheel just in front of Nacer Bouhanni as the ...

MILAN, Italy (Reuters) - As nervous investors retreat from Catalonia, afraid the wealthy region may secede from Spain, another European region whose politicians once campaigned for independence is ...