Catalonia, the small, ancient nation of seven million people in the northeastern corner of Spain, is living with an unheard of situation in the heart of democratic Europe. From February 6 to 10 ...

It is not an outright statement of independence, but parliament’s declaration insists that the Catalan people, in northeast Spain around Barcelona, have the right to self-determination.

For people in Catalonia, and Catalan people around the world, it's impossible to shake the image of a police officer grabbing a woman by the hair and throwing her downstairs, then using his baton ...

Catalan Independence Referendum Turns Violent In Spain on Sunday, ... VALLS: I would say that psychologically a lot of the Catalan people, a big majority of the Catalan people, ...

Only a few weeks ago, it seemed quite likely that Catalonia would declare itself independent from Spain. On October 1, the people of Catalonia voted overwhelmingly for independence (some 90 percent of ...

Catalan Separatist Leader Is Freed In Italy Until An Extradition Hearing Carles Puigdemont left a jail in Sardinia on Friday after a judge ruled that he could go free pending an Oct. 4 hearing on ...

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Police launched a manhunt in Barcelona on Thursday for fugitive Carles Puigdemont, a celebrated campaigner for Catalan independence who made a sensational return to Spain ...

Independence, in my reading, was not the Catalan people's first choice and is not now. Nor should it be. Based on all I have reviewed, autonomy within the frame of the nation-state is the correct ...

He said his friends spoke a mix of Spanish and Catalan. “People living in Barcelona don’t have strong feelings” about language, he said, adding, “It’s difficult for small countries. ...