By Robert Hart Spain is in the grip of its most serious constitutional crisis in years, with the government of the north-eastern region Catalonia, the wealthiest and most powerful of the country’s 17 autonomous regions, staging a fresh bid for full independence. The...
As Europe frets about the impact of the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union and the world fidgets over the unpredictability of President Donald Trump in Washington, few countries are facing the immediate future more nervously than Spain. Demonstrators...
By Léa Surugue Patrick Roca never used to consider himself a rebel. But times have changed. “We Catalans do not reject Spain, but we feel very disillusioned,” said Rocca, who was born in France of parents from Spain’s Catalan region. Rocca is one of...