Catalan National Assembly

Madrid eyes Catalan elections in January as solution to crisis

Warning of backlash against Spanish government decision to use direct rule

Jailing of independence leaders further fuels Catalan crisis

Conflict not between Catalonia and Spain but between ‘legality and illegality’, says Madrid

High security and a festive air as Catalans digest ‘independence declaration’

‘We’ve wanted this for a long time ... we’ve got our hopes up’

Catalonia’s independence referendum: How did we get to this?

Sunday’s vote caps decade of misunderstanding between Madrid and its restive region

Police action will weaker referendum plan, say Catalan leaders

Madrid deems vote illegal and has clamped down with arrests and seizure of material

Spain’s crisis sharpens as Catalonia referendum campaign begins

Madrid launches legal offensive to thwart October 1st vote for Catalan independence

Catalans take to the streets in support of independence vote

Thousands rally in Barcelona amid Spanish government threats over illegal referendum

Independence day in Catalonia as secession moves closer

The Catalan national day is dominated by four-year long drive to break away from Madrid

Spain tense ahead of Catalan election

If Artur Mas and allies win, they plan to have independent Catalan state by 2016 or 2017

Catalans to take to streets today over independence poll

The Spanish state has deemed a type of ‘referendum’ to be illegal

Thousands of Catalans form ‘human chain’ as part of push for independence

Echoing chain organised by Baltic states seeking to break from Soviet Union in 1989, Catalan one stretches 400km

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