Spain takes Catalunya Parliament websites offline
SPAIN'S government has deactivated Catalunya regional Parliament's websites after sacking the president and his ministers.
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Puigdemont 'flees to Belgium' with five ministers, reports claim
CARLES Puigdemont and five of his now-ex ministers have reportedly fled to Belgium to seek political asylum in the only European country where EU nationals can do so.
ANC leader's 'fed up' cellmate asks to move: “He keeps banging on about independence”
CATALUNYA National Assembly (ANC) leader Jordi Sànchez's prison cellmate has asked to move as he is 'fed up' with the campaigner 'banging on about independence'.
“Puigdemont could seek political asylum in Belgium,” says Flemish nationalist minister
A BELGIAN minister in favour of Flemish independence has tentatively offered Catalunya's regional president Carles Puigdemont political asylum.
Junqueras' team said secession 'not viable' a month before referendum
TAPPED telephone conversations have revealed the right-hand man of Catalunya's deputy president Oriol Junqueras (pictured) thought the region's independence was 'not viable' as much as two months before...
Over a million protest against 'declaration of independence'
AN ESTIMATED 1.1 million people have hit the streets of Barcelona today (Sunday) to protest against the now-ex Catalunya regional government's unilateral declaration of independence.
Catalunya's government sacked, but Puigdemont refuses to leave
SPAIN'S president Mariano Rajoy has sacked the regional leader of Catalunya, Carles Puigdemont, and his government.
Senate votes to trigger Article 155
BARELY half an hour after Catalunya's regional Parliament voted to declare independence, the Senate at national government level has given its mandate for president Mariano Rajoy to trigger Article 155 of the...
Catalunya's Parliament votes to declare independence
CATALUNYA regional Parliament has voted to issue a unilateral declaration of independence (UD) with 70 votes in favour, 10 against and two blank.
Puigdemont may call regional election for December 20
CATALUNYA regional president Carles Puigdemont may call an election for December 20 in light of the threat of the national government triggering Article 155 of the Spanish Constitution, which would strip the north...
Puigdemont may call elections, but this will not stop Article 155, says Rajoy
CATALUNYA regional president Carles Puigdemont is considering calling an election now to try to stop Article 155 of the Spanish Constitution being triggered, which would place the north-eastern territory under State...
Puigdemont may speak in Senate ahead of Article 155 vote
CATALUNYA regional president Carles Puigdemont is considering speaking in the Senate on Friday when its members vote on whether to trigger Article 155 of the Constitution, which would place the north-eastern territory...