Socialist politician Salvador Illa was inaugurated as president of the Catalan regional government in a ceremony in the government palace in Barcelona on Saturday. "By taking office today, I am also ...

Catalonias deposed president Carles Puigdemont vowed Saturday to "defend the just cause of the Catalan people" as he returned to Belgium. Four months after he was detained in Germany at Madrid's ...

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Police launched a manhunt in Barcelona on Thursday for ex-Catalonia leader and fugitive Carles Puigdemont, a celebrated campaigner for Catalan independence who made a ...

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy announced Saturday he’ll dissolve Catalonia’s government and exercise direct control over the region of 7.5 million people. The announcement is intended to stop ...

From the 1960s, a modern kind of nationalism (neo-nationalism) arose. Little by little, Catalan people began to recover their prohibited forms of culture, such as the language and literature. Certain ...