Barcelona Without the Tourists
Barceloneta beach isn’t packed. You can actually go for a stroll on La Rambla.
Analysis and commentary about the independence crisis in Catalonia by Nick Ottens (based in Barcelona) and Ainslie Noble (an expert in Basque and Catalan identity issues).
Barceloneta beach isn’t packed. You can actually go for a stroll on La Rambla.
Streets that were full of life a week ago are deserted.
Separatists are divided over the parliamentary status of Catalonia’s regional president.
Quim Torra is ordered to resign. Oriol Junqueras is not allowed to take his seat in Europe.
The Republicans should take it.
Oriol Junqueras and Quim Torra hear opposite decisions but are victims of the same unjust system.
Far from reining in the independence movement, Spain has radicalized it.
Spain’s Pedro Sánchez has the support of the left. Now he needs to woo Catalonia’s separatists.
Spain has prevented three former Catalan ministers from taking their seats in the European Parliament.
Why are the Catalans upset? How many want independence? How can this end?
Hands off didn’t work. Repression didn’t work. How about listening to the Catalans for a change?
Former members of the regional government have been found guilty of sedition against the Spanish state.
In neither case can partisans agree on the facts.
The center-left and center-right can no longer govern on their own. They need to compromise.
The same court that will decide the fate of jailed Catalan independence leaders just sided with the family of Francisco Franco.