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L ast Monday the new Spanish President Pedro Sánchez and the President of the Generalitat of Catalonia Quim Torra met in Madrid for the first time after the establishment of the…
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O n 1st June 2018, for the first time in the history of Spain, the government was dismissed by the opposition. The prime minister Mariano Rajoy was forced to leave his…
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I t is not easy to appal people in a country where the Ministry of Defence decrees the flags must fly at half-mast during Easter to commemorate the death of Jesus…
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I n a determined attempt to maintain the unity of the Kingdom, not altered since 1976, Spanish Government and High Courts continue to explore new mechanisms to fight Catalan separatist ideology.…
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D uring the last Catalan crisis, Spain's National Audience charged two civil society leaders with sedition. They along with thirteen members of the abolished regional government and the President of Parliament…
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B efore the Eastern Partnership (EaP) Brussels Summit (November 2017), there were many polemics associated with competing language of the summit’s declaration on unresolved conflicts and the new EU-Azerbaijan agreement. The…
A fter the alleged interference into the US presidential elections in 2016 and in the French general elections in the past spring, Russian online propaganda has tried to influence the recent Catalan referendum. This…
T he Catalan government is determined to go through with its plans to hold an independence referendum. With the country on the verge of a constitutional crisis, a negotiated solution becomes crucial.
On 1 October,…
3.8 million refugees and immigrants arrived in the EU in 2014. The migratory flow is expected to stay at 1.5 million people/year until 2036.
Besides language and cultural barriers, the migrant population suffers…
I n Perry Anderson’s magisterial book on the European Union, The New Old World, he sums up what has become a perennial conundrum of the soon-to-be 27-member union’s future:
“Democratisation can still be deferred. But…