The聽Spanish Socialist Workers' Party/Unidas Podemos聽coalition government has聽launched its 2021 draft budget to great fanfare, writes Dick Nichols.
Dick Nichols
The Spanish state's relentless pursuit of Catalan independence activists suffered a big hit when the National High Court found the former Catalan police chief聽and his three fellow defendants not guilty on all charges, reports Dick Nichols.
A COVID-19 blog by 91自拍论坛's European correspondent Dick Nichols, who is based in Barcelona.
With Spain in lock down, Federico Fuentes spoke to 骋谤别别苍听尝别蹿迟 European correspondent Dick Nichols, who is聽based in Barcelona, about the grim reality on the ground and how, among the sorrow, examples of people鈥檚 solidarity are shining through.
Whenever supporters of Catalan sovereignty and independence have been asked to travel far from home to champion their country鈥檚 democratic rights, they have always rallied to the cause, writes Dick Nichols from Barcelona.
Capitulation to the Spanish state has blown apart Catalonia's pro-independence alliance and forced an early election, writes Dick Nichols from Barcelona.
By the narrowest of margins (167 votes to 165 with 18 abstentions), the 350-seat Spanish Congress invested a coalition government of the social-democratic Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) and the more radical Unidas Podemos (UP) on January 7.
No Spanish prime minister has ever been elected by so low and so close a vote: eight of the parliament鈥檚 eighteen parties voted in favour, eight against and two abstained.
On November 12, largely in reaction to the rise of the right-wing Vox, Socialist Workers' Party leader Pedro S谩nchez and Unidas Podemos' Pablo Iglesias stitched up a pre-agreement for government in less than 48 hours, writes Dick Nichols.
The final act in a week of protest in Catalonia, against the vindictive jail terms imposed on nine Catalan leaders by the Spanish Supreme Court on October 14, was a general strike and vast demonstration in the capital, Barcelona.
Infuriated by the verdict, frustrated with the strategy of the established independence movement (seen as 鈥済etting nowhere鈥), and most of all, outraged by police violence, young Catalans, who had never been on a barricade in their lives, decided that 鈥渄irect action鈥 was the only solution, writes Dick Nichols.
After the Spanish Supreme Court sentenced nine political and social Catalan leaders on October 12 to a total of 99.5 years jail for organising the October 1, 2017 independence referendum, the struggle for the country鈥檚 right to self-determination entered a new phase.
Denmark鈥檚 Red-Green Alliance (RGA) held its 30th congress in Copenhagen on October 5-6, in a political context that contrasted strongly with that of its previous congress.
Eighteen months ago the party鈥檚 300-plus congress delegates were preparing for a general election they hoped would lift the RGA into the role of main challenger to the Social Democrats for hegemony over what is called the 鈥渞ed bloc鈥 in Denmark.
Former metalworker S酶ren S酶ndergaard, who represents the outer Copenhagen electorate of Gladsaxe in the Danish parliament, has a long history in radical left politics.
In the 1980s, he was part of the leadership of the Socialist Workers Party, one of the three founding organisations of the Red-Green Alliance (RGA), known in Denmark as the Unity List 鈥 the Red-Greens.
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