"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Italian authorities acted on a European arrest ... after he led an unsuccessful attempt to establish an independent Catalonia. “He left this morning for Brussels,” said Mr. Puigdemont ...

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 ...