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Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has said regional elections next month in Catalonia will help end "separatist havoc" in the north-eastern region. He addressed a campaign event on his first visit there since imposing direct rule on the region a fortnight ago.more

More than 2,000 businesses representing nearly one-third of the GDP of Spain's restive Catalonia region have fled it due to political uncertainty, according to Catalan entrepreneurs visiting Brussels.more

The court had initially suspended implementation of the secession declaration last month while it studied its legality following a challenge by the Spanish government.more

Catalonia's deposed leader Carles Puigdemont and four former advisers have turned themselves in to Belgian police, says a prosecutors' spokesman.more

Spanish judge's move comes day after former members of Catalan cabinet remanded in custody over independence push.more

Estimates by the Spanish government shows that Spain's GDP will decline between €4 billion and €30 billion in 2018.more

Madrid reasserted control on Monday over the breakaway region of Catalonia, taking over the police and government ministries with ease as Spanish prosecutors levelled charges of sedition and rebellion against the regions ousted leaders.more

In one of the most momentous days in recent Spanish history, Spain fired Catalonia's regional government and dissolved its parliament Friday after a defiant Catalan declaration of independence that flouted the country's constitution.more

Senate in Madrid set to vote on imposing direct rule after Catalan government refuses to abandon drive for independence.more

Catalonia's regional parliament will hold a plenary meeting on Thursday, a lawmaker with the ruling Catalan separatist coalition said Monday.more

THE President of the European Parliament has dealt a blow to Catalans wanting secession from Spain, by saying: "Nobody in Europe would recognise the independence of Catalonia".more

Spain's ruling conservatives and main opposition Socialists have agreed to force fresh elections in Catalonia in January in response to the Catalan leadership's threat to secede from Spain, according to Socialist politician Carmen Calvo.more

Spain's top court has officially ruled that Catalonia's disputed independence referendum was illegal because a regional law that backed it was against Spain's constitution.more

The president of the autonomous Spanish region of Catalonia has failed to clarify whether he has declared independence, in a letter to Madrid.more

Both sides' stances are ambiguous enough to buy time to cool political temperature, writes today "Financial Times" about situation in Spain.more

Catalonia's president has called to 'suspend effects of independence declaration' - potentially upsetting both sides of debate.more

Catalonia will apply a referendum law, which calls for a declaration of independence if a referendum shows a majority in favor, Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont says in a television program to be broadcast later on Sunday.more

Urns to vote smuggled at night in France, hidden first at homes and secretly transported to the polling stations under the noses of the police - so the American agency AP described preparing for illegal Catalan elections on October 1.more

Catalonia's parliament will press ahead and debate a unilateral declaration of independence in defiance of a court order banning the hearing, the region's foreign affairs minister said.more

Spain's Constitutional Court has suspended next Monday's session of the Catalan parliament, in a bid to pre-empt a possible push for independence. The court said such a move would be "a breach of the constitution".more

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy called on Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont on Thursday to abandon plans to unilaterally declare the region's independence from Spain "to avoid greater evils".more

Catalonia's pro-independence leader has said that the region will declare independence from Spain "in a matter of days".more

A union of Spain's Guardia Civil called on Tuesday for urgent reinforcements in Catalonia, accusing the government in Madrid of "abandoning" them to "harassment" it said had reached the level of ETA's heyday.more

EU Council President Tusk appeals to Spain to "find ways to avoid further escalation and use of force" .more

Many papers in the normally insular British press led with Catalonia. "Spain torn apart as 850 hurt in referendum riots," led the Times. Using the same picture of a riot policeman, the Telegraph reported: "EU crisis over Catalan poll violence." The Guardian - also with the same picture - led with "Hundreds hurt as Catalonia descends into violence."more