Spain: Pro-separatist protesters clash with police
February 21, 2019 GMTBARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Protesters backing Catalonia's secession from Spain clashed with police and blocked major roads and train tracks across the northeastern region on Thursday during a strike called to protest the trial of a dozen separatist leaders...
Does Catalan crisis threaten to make Spain ‘ungovernable’?
February 16, 2019 GMTBARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The secession crisis festering in Spain's northeastern corner of Catalonia has spread to the political heart of the European Union nation...
Spain to get 3rd gov’t in 4 years amid fragmenting politics
February 15, 2019 GMTMADRID (AP) — Spain will elect its third government in less than four years after Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's fragile socialist government acknowledged Friday its support had evaporated and called an early general election...
AP Explains: Polarized by Catalonia, Spain heads to election
February 15, 2019 GMTMADRID (AP) — Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has called a general election for April 28 after his minority government's budget proposal was rejected by lawmakers...
Catalan ex-official testifies he is a ‘political prisoner’
February 14, 2019 GMTMADRID (AP) — A former Catalan official accused by Spanish prosecutors of leading a violent rebellion to create an independent republic testified at a top court in Madrid on Thursday that he considers himself "a political prisoner...
Budget defeat puts Spain’s center-left government on ropes
February 13, 2019 GMTMADRID (AP) — Catalan separatist and right-wing lawmakers in the Spanish parliament's lower house rejected Wednesday the ruling Socialist government's 2019 budget plan, likely paving the way for Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez to call an early election...
Trial of Catalan separatists begins in Madrid amid protests
February 12, 2019 GMTMADRID (AP) — A politically charged trial of a dozen Catalan separatist leaders began Tuesday in Spain's Supreme Court amid protests and the possibility of an early general election being called in the country...
AP Explains: Catalans appear at ‘trial of century’ in Spain
February 12, 2019 GMTMADRID (AP) — It's being billed as Spain's "trial of the century": A dozen politicians and activists are in in the Supreme Court on Tuesday stemming from their involvement in Catalonia's push for independence in 2017...