Catalonia

It was not the Zagreb Summit anyone had envisioned. The presidents of the EU institutions, along with 25 of the bloc's 27 national leaders, convened via videoconference late Wednesday afternoon for a summit with their Western Balkan counterparts that had been scheduled to take place in the Croatian capital, and…

The Oxford Handbook of Spanish Politics, comprising 41 chapters by renowned scholars and edited by Diego Muro and Ignacio Lago, makes a hugely valuable contribution to understandings of the country through its consistent analysis of contemporary Spanish politics and governance in a comparative European context, rather than in isolation. The…

There are two things a quarantined European will reliably find when he goes online for news in this age of the coronavirus: first, the clucking of local pundits at how the Trump administration has managed the epidemic in the United States; second, unmistakable evidence that every one of the major…

It is 15 years to the day that arguably football's greatest-ever player scored his first senior goal for Barcelona.Lionel Messi announced himself at the Nou Camp with a beautiful chipped finish against Albacete on May 1, 2005 and has gone on to have a stunning career for the Spanish giants.On…

Chief Ralph UwazurikeBy Chidi Nkwopara It has been jubilation galore since Biafra Independence Movement, BIM, received information that the people of Biafra have been officially admitted as the 46th member of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation, UNPO. The protagonist of Biafra Independence Movement, BIM; and Movement for the Actualization…

BARCELONA (Reuters) - Catalan separatists have used the coronavirus crisis as a fresh motive to argue for independence from Spain, some bluntly saying the pandemic would have caused fewer deaths had the wealthy northeastern region been on its own. FILE PHOTO: Catalan pro-independence demonstrators attend a protest to call for…

BARCELONA (Reuters) - Catalan separatists have used the coronavirus crisis as a fresh motive to argue for independence from Spain, some bluntly saying the pandemic would have caused fewer deaths had the wealthy northeastern region been on its own.But with mistakes by both national and regional authorities, the separatists' strategy…

BARCELONA (Reuters) - Catalan separatists have used the coronavirus crisis as a fresh motive to argue for independence from Spain, some bluntly saying the pandemic would have caused fewer deaths had the wealthy northeastern region been on its own. FILE PHOTO: Catalan pro-independence demonstrators attend a protest to call for…

BARCELONA (Reuters) - Catalan separatists have used the coronavirus crisis as a fresh motive to argue for independence from Spain, some bluntly saying the pandemic would have caused fewer deaths had the wealthy northeastern region been on its own. FILE PHOTO: Catalan pro-independence demonstrators attend a protest to call for…

TODAY: In 1938, George Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia is published.“Underneath all the trappings of talking animals and fairy godmothers are tough stories about people who are marginal,  undervalued, and isolated.” Rebecca Solnit on how life inside this strange new fairytale doesn’t have to be lonely. | Lit Hub Life in a Pandemic How did writers…