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18.06.2013 - 10.44 pm The Catalan Government raises the tax on second-hand real estate sales to earn an additional €150 million The Wealth Transfer Tax, which is levied on sales of second-hand housing units and any other used real estate, will be raised from 8% to 10% as from...	11.06.2013 - 10.16 pm The President of the Catalan Government aims to stay in office regardless of the self-determination vote Artur Mas, President of the Catalan Government, presented the Government Plan for 2013-2016 on Tuesday, emphasising that he aims to complete the four...	28.05.2013 - 10.23 pm Political parties agree on a common strategy to face the Spanish Government's Education Law against the Catalan language The parties defending the current Catalan school model, which represent 80% of Catalonia’s Parliament, met on Tuesday to discuss how to face the...	17.05.2013 - 09.53 pm Madrid to oblige the Catalan Government to pay for a privately-owned school if a pupil wants to study in Spanish The Spanish Government has approved its Education Reform, which aims to make Spanish a teaching language in Catalonia and reduces the Autonomous...
16.05.2013 - 10.16 pm The Spanish Government's Delegate in Catalonia pays tribute to Hitler's soldiers María de los Llanos de Luna, from the People’s Party (PP), gave a diploma to a brotherhood of the ‘Divisón Azul’, a division of Spanish volunteers...	14.05.2013 - 10.18 pm The Catalan Government adapts the budget extension guidelines to a provisional 1.2% deficit As it was announced on Monday, the Catalan Government has adapted its budget extension guidelines to a higher deficit target, while it is waiting to...	08.05.2013 - 10.47 pm The Spanish Constitutional Court temporarily suspends the Catalan Parliament's Declaration of Sovereignty The Catalan Parliament replies by approving the creation of a parliamentary commission on Catalonia’s right to self-determination with 79.3% of yes...	06.05.2013 - 11.28 pm The political summit for Catalonia's right to self-determination decided to include civil society However, the participating political parties could not agree on a plan to organise a self-determination vote: some would like to combine the...
26.04.2013 - 10.06 pm The Spanish Government raises the deficit target for the Autonomous Communities from 0.7% to 1.2% for 2013 The deficit target for Spain’s entire public sector has also been raised from 4.5% to 6.3%. The Spanish Government has kept 81% of the deficit for...	24.04.2013 - 10.56 pm Rajoy's measures against linguistic immersion questioned by Brussels and the Spanish State Council The European Commissioner for Education, Culture and Multilingualism, promised Catalan Euro MPs to ask the Spanish Government – chaired by Mariano...	11.04.2013 - 09.38 pm Catalan Euro MPs ask European institutions to take up a stance regarding Catalonia's school model Four Members of the European Parliament representing three Catalan parties have asked the European Commission and the European Council to declare...	10.04.2013 - 09.11 pm Catalonia’s Supreme Court asks for Spanish to be made a teaching language in schools if a single pupil requests it The Catalan Education Minister will appeal the decision to the Spanish Supreme Court and meanwhile will not follow the petition of the Catalan...
03.04.2013 - 10.20 pm The Catalan President insists on talking to the Spanish Government about the self-determination claims Artur Mas, the President of the Catalan Government and leader of the Centre-Right Catalan Nationalist Coalition (CiU), is sceptical about the Spanish...	19.03.2013 - 09.57 pm The 'number 3' of the governing Centre-Right Catalan Nationalist Coalition (CiU) is indicted for influence peddling The Supreme Court of Catalonia (TSJC) has indicted Oriol Pujol, who is the ‘number three’ of the CiU – who run the Catalan Government – over a case...	13.03.2013 - 10.05 pm 77% of the Catalan Parliament supports Catalonia’s right to self-determination through a legal citizen vote The Catalan Parliament has approved the same declaration that the Spanish Parliament rejected 2 weeks ago with 104 votes out of the 135 MPs. The text...	07.03.2013 - 08.30 pm Euro MPs ask the European Commission about the respect for the independence of judicial power in Spain Earlier this week the Director of the Public Prosecution Office of Catalonia, Martín Rodríguez Sol, was pushed to resign by his boss at a Spanish...