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Catalonia’s symbolic independence referendum: What it means and why it would be wrong to ignore it

November 10, 2014

UPDATE (1:00pm) – As promised, here’s an update on the results of Catalonia’s symbolic independence referendum now that all votes have been counted.Turnout: 2,305,290 people (around 37% of those eligible to vote)Votes in favour of independence: 1,861,7…

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Catalan government calls off independence referendum, but it’s not the end of the story

October 14, 2014

UPDATE (10:55am): Catalan President Artur Mas has just been speaking to the press. His remarks were broadly in line with the blog analysis we published earlier (see below).Two key points from the presser:The planned independence referendum will n…

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Catalan President calls non-binding independence vote: legal battle with Madrid looms

September 27, 2014

The signature of Catalan President Mas on today’s decreeThe die is cast in Barcelona. Catalan President Artur Mas has just signed the decree calling an independence vote on 9 November. The Spanish government will hold an emergency cabinet meeting on Mo…

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Scotland votes, Catalonia waits: Will there soon be another independence referendum in Europe?

September 18, 2014

FC Barcelona supporters waving Scottish flags at Camp NouThe world is watching Scotland today, and the Catalans will watch closer than most.Spanish news sites are featuring pictures of FC Barcelona supporters waving Scottish flags during their team’s C…

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Artur Mas, catalonia, consulta, IndyRef, Rajoy, referendum, scotland, Spain

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Belgium’s general election: Will we see another 541 days without a government?

May 23, 2014

This Sunday, on the same day as the European Parliament elections, Belgium will hold a general election, electing both new federal and regional assemblies to govern 11 million people. The key question is how strong the Flemish nationalist N-VA, which i…

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If EU law is followed, Scotland will join the EU just before Serbia

February 17, 2014

Our Director Mats Persson writes on his Telegraph blog:The UK must be the first country, with the forthcoming Scottish and EU referenda, to simultaneously have an intense political debate about the difficulty or otherwise of both joining and leaving th…

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Alex Salmond, barroso, catalonia, enlargement, EU accession, EU enlargement, EU law, eu membership, euro, euro opt out, scotland, Scottish independence, Scottish referendum, Spain

Not what London or Madrid want to hear

October 17, 2013

According to the Scotsman, Professor Dr Roland Vaubel, who is an adviser to Germany’s economics ministry, has written the following for the journal Economic Affairs:The opinion of the European Union institutions that Catalonia and Scotland…

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catalonia, EU enlargement, Independence referendum, scotland

Spain back under the spotlight soon?

January 22, 2013

We haven’t blogged on Spain for a bit, but a couple of interesting developments have caught our attention today. Spain will presumably disclose its final deficit figure for 2012 shortly, and everything seems to suggest that Madrid will let its eurozone…

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catalonia, deficit, ECB, eurozone, OMT, Rajoy, Spain, Spanish bank bailout, spanish regions

The Catalans have voted: for what exactly?

November 26, 2012

It does not happen very often, but the final result of yesterday’s Catalan elections was almost completely unpredicted by polling. Artur Mas (in the picture) and his centre-right Convergència i Unió (CiU) party were always going to win – an…

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Artur Mas, catalan elections, catalonia, eurozone, eurozone crisis, Rajoy, Spain

Spanish regional elections: Why the victory for Rajoy’s party in Galicia should not be overplayed

October 23, 2012

Following the latest round of regional elections in Spain on Sunday, the foreign media clearly seem to have focused their attention on the victory of Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy’s Partido Popular (PP) in Galicia (see, among others, this articl…

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catalonia, eurozone crisis, Rajoy, Spanish bailout, Spanish bank bailout, Spanish regional elections, spanish regions

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