BARCELONA, Spain-- The prime minister of Spain is taking a dramatic step to assert authority over Catalonia after the regional parliament voted to secede from Spain on Friday. Spanish Prime Minister ...

There are good reasons for Catalonia to become independent. This region of Spain, with a population of 7.5 million, has its own language and traditions. It has a long history of semi-detachment from ...

Catalonia's pro-independence party Junts has decided to withdraw support from Spain's leftist government, complicating budget passage. Expected to be ratified by members, this move jeopardizes Prime ...

Spain dismissed Catalonia’s president and Cabinet, and dissolved its Parliament on Friday hours after lawmakers in the autonomous region defied Madrid and voted to declare independence. Spanish Prime ...

The only reasonable way out of Spain’s current crisis over Catalonia is a new constitution. Recognizing both the right to self-determination and the principle of territorial integrity would lay the ...

The man at the center of the political crisis ripping apart Spain has just attempted to pull off the impossible: both declaring that his native Catalonia has the right to secede from Spain and then ...

BARCELONA, Spain — The governments of Spain and its Catalonia region opened a highly anticipated series of negotiations on Wednesday about the future of Spain’s wealthy — and rebellious — northeastern ...