Catalonia-Spain Relations

14.06.2013 - 05.51 pm Barcelona Chamber of Commerce accuses the Spanish Government of owing €4 billion for investments in Catalonia According to the current legislation, the Spanish Government has to invest 18.9% of its total transport infrastructure budget in Catalonia between...	10.06.2013 - 09.51 pm Brussels' main think-tank CEPS recommends that Spain and Catalonia name "an external mediator" In an interview with ACN, the Head of the EU Foreign Policy Unit of the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Steven Blockmans argued that “the...	21.05.2013 - 10.42 pm Catalonia contributed with 8.5% of its GDP to infrastructures and services in the rest of Spain in 2010 On Tuesday, the Catalan Government posted the so-called fiscal balances for 2010, showing the difference between the money paid by Catalans in taxes...	03.05.2013 - 10.53 pm 33.7% of Catalan citizens support independence according to a Spanish Government survey The CIS – the Spanish Government’s public opinion survey institute – has indicated that 55.1% of Catalans would like a Catalan state, either...
09.04.2013 - 10.05 pm The Spanish Socialist Party backs a constitutional reform but rejects allowing Catalonia’s self-determination vote The leader of the Spanish Socialist Party (PSOE), Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, and the President of the Catalan Government, Artur Mas, secretly met on...	04.03.2013 - 10.46 pm The Director of the Public Prosecution Office in Catalonia will be fired for supporting a legal self-determination vote The boss of all public prosecutors in Spain, Eduardo Torres-Dulce – appointed by the Spanish Government – announced on Monday that he is starting the...	26.02.2013 - 10.15 pm The Spanish Parliament rejects two petitions to negotiate for allowing a self-determination referendum in Catalonia For the first time since 1982, the Catalan Socialist Party (PSC) has voted differently to the Spanish Socialist Party (PSOE), to which is federated....	21.02.2013 - 10.41 pm 54.7% of Catalans would support independence from Spain in a referendum according to a poll The latest political poll issued by the Catalan Survey Centre (CEO), published every three months, shows that 54.7% of those interviewed would vote “...
08.02.2013 - 10.34 pm The Spanish Government is considering taking the Catalan declaration of sovereignty to the Constitutional Court Following a report by its own legal services, the Spanish Government is considering appealing against the ‘Declaration of sovereignty and the right...	05.02.2013 - 09.52 pm Catalan economists want the Spanish Government “to talk without prejudgements” on Catalonia’s self-determination The Cercle d’Economia, the main Catalan economic forum open to businesspeople and academics, has published an opinion note on the political context...	29.01.2013 - 10.41 pm The Catalan Government announces it will increase its external relations action as it is “more needed than ever” The Catalan Government criticised the Spanish Executive’s obstacles to Catalonia’s own external relations action, as “in a globalised world” this “is...	23.01.2013 - 09.51 pm The Catalan Parliament approves the ‘Declaration of sovereignty and the right to self-determination by the people of Catalonia’ The Parliament of Catalonia has approved an historical declaration of sovereignty claiming the right to self-determination by the Catalan people. The...
23.01.2013 - 05.35 pm The Barcelona Bar Association claims that self-determination is an inalienable right of Catalonia The association’s People’s Rights Commission defends the celebration of a referendum and the unilateral independence declaration if the Spanish...	08.01.2013 - 10.54 pm The Catalan Finance Ministry has been restructured in order to develop Catalonia’s own treasury The Catalan Government has created a Treasury Secretariat within its Finance Ministry, which will be in charge of managing revenue, with the...	28.12.2012 - 08.49 pm Rajoy accepts the Catalan President’s offer to talk but rejects any modification of the 0.7% deficit target for 2013 The Spanish Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy, has accepted the offer sent by the new Catalan President to talk about Catalonia’s claims, while keeping...	19.12.2012 - 10.49 pm Mas: “We had a clear electoral mandate and the message was we had to work together” Artur Mas, the leader of the Centre-Right Catalan Nationalist Coalition (CiU), and Oriol Junqueras, President of the Left-Wing Catalan Independence...