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21.03.2013 - 10.41 pm The Spanish Government will relax the Autonomous Communities’ deficit targets and is open to setting them on individual basis The Spanish Finance Minister, Crístobal Montoro, confirmed that if Brussels relaxes Spain’s total deficit target for 2013, he will share this...	14.03.2013 - 07.09 pm The Catalan Government posts a debt of €50.95 billion at the end of 2012 The Catalan Finance Minister, Andreu Mas-Colell has announced that the Catalan Government had a public debt of €50,948 million on the 31st of...	14.03.2013 - 09.05 am The Mortgage Platform has been fighting to stop house evictions in Spain The Popular Legislative Initiative promoted by the Platform is pending debate in the Spanish Parliament. The Mortgage Platform was founded in...	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...
12.03.2013 - 09.15 pm The Spanish Government admits that the report accusing the Catalan President of corruption is not official A few hours earlier, the Swiss bank Lombard Odier stated that the Catalan presidents Artur Mas and Jordi Pujol do not have any relationship with the...	11.03.2013 - 10.11 pm The Catalan Finance Minister stated it is "impossible" to draft a budget with a deficit of 0.7% Andreu Mas-Colell, the Catalan Government’s Finance Minister, emphasised that a 0.7% deficit objective means implementing an additional budget...	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...	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...
01.03.2013 - 09.36 pm The Spanish Government aims to “centralise” the external action services of the Autonomous Communities The Spanish Government has presented its project to approve an External Action Law aiming to “centralise services” and to have the Autonomous...	01.03.2013 - 08.49 pm The Spanish Government challenges the Catalan declaration of sovereignty before the Constitutional Court The President of the Catalan Government, Artur Mas, accused the Spanish Government of “not having the true will to talk” about Catalonia’s self-...	21.02.2013 - 09.36 pm The Catalan Government posts a 2% deficit for 2012, correcting the previous preliminary figure A month ago, the Catalan Government issued a preliminary deficit figure for last year of 2.3%. Now, the Catalan Finance Minister, Andreu Mas-Colell,...	18.02.2013 - 09.47 pm Barcelona-based Abertis believes Bolivia will pay “adequate compensation” after nationalising Sabsa The Catalan company Abertis, which owns 90% of Sabsa, denies the accusation stated by the President of Bolivia, Evo Morales, that they made a poor...
15.02.2013 - 10.13 pm Catalonia defends its exclusive power to manage local councils and notes that 90% of Catalan councillors do not earn a salary The Catalan Government and most of the political parties have criticised the Spanish Government’s project to reduce local powers. Furthermore, the...	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...	31.01.2013 - 08.58 pm The Catalan Government asks the European Commission to guarantee the “fairer” distribution of deficit targets within Spain Andreu Mas-Colell, the Catalan Finance Minister, has sent a letter to the European Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs, Olli Rehn, to...