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Tag: Catalonia
Catalan Elections: The Ghosts That Won’t Go Away
Yesterday’s election victory for Catalan separatists, including humiliating losses for the ruling center-right Partido Popular, denotes yet another setback for the grand project of European
Kashmir – The Independence Movement Much More Dangerous Than Catalonia’s
At the moment everyone is pitching in on the situation in Catalonia as the real story. Having held a referendum on independence, in defiance of
Catalan Independence is Not Worth Dying For
Catalan independence is not worth dying for. The region is not suffering oppression nor is it colonized. The Catalan independence movement is being driven by
Catalonia in Limbo
Things are in unchartered waters, crisis conditions a long way from resolved. Both sides have polar opposite values. Pro-independence Catalans want their democratic rights upheld.
‘Long-Desired Step’: Catalan Parliament Declares Independence from Spain
Following a secret ballot, MPs in the Catalan parliament declared independence from Spain, with the regional leader Carlos Puigdemont saying the people had completed “a
Is Liberalism a Dying Faith?
Asked to name the defining attributes of the America we wish to become, many liberals would answer that we must realize our manifest destiny since
The Spanish Civil War, Revisited
Call it theatre of the absurd – with a lethal subtext. Under pressure from all corners – even Donald Tusk, president of the EU Council
