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High school, college and university students gathered in Barcelona in the Plaza de la Universidad as part of a mass demonstration organised by the campaign group Universitats per la República, whose spokesman Jordi Vives says the strikes and lock-ins in every campus in Catalunya were 'huge'.
“It's been massive, even at private universities,” he said.
Students marched carrying giant Catalunya regional flags, the Estelada, with some wrapping them around themselves like capes.
The protest was peaceful, although far from quiet – the students turned it into a street carnival – and ended outside Sants station in the square opposite, the Plaça dels Països Catalans ('Catalán nations') as a symbolic gesture of their support of the independence referendum.
Barcelona Autonomous University (UAB) students blocked the AP-7 motorway, causing 10-kilometre tailbacks in the southbound carriageway and three-kilometre gridlocks on the B-30 south, the knock-on effect of which led to queues of eight kilometres on the C-58 interchange with the AP-7.
KING Felipe VI's annual Christmas Eve speech once again included a covert appeal to secessionist politicians, as well as raising concerns about young adults' struggle to afford housing and violence against women.
'BRAVE' servicemen and women who will spend Christmas overseas are 'making Spain proud', president Pedro Sánchez assured them during his annual festive message via video-call.
NEWLY sworn-in national president Pedro Sánchez is now starting the challenging task of building his cabinet among a very divided coalition, although several names from his previous tenure are tipped to be returning to...
A NEW and limited-edition €2 coin will be in circulation in Spain until the end of this year to mark the country's Council of Europe presidency 'shift', the Royal mint has revealed.