The National

Scotland desperately needs its own National Assembly like Catalonia’s

IT’S six years since Catalonia held its referendum on self-determination. At the time, I, as chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Catalonia, and other parliamentary members – including Hywel Williams …

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Catalan News

‘Scotland and Catalonia have inalienable right to self-determination’

Catalonia’s pro-independence camp voices support for Scottish counterparts after UK supreme court rules against new referendum

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Communiqué on the British judiciary blocking of a second independence referendum in Scotland

Yesterday, the Supreme Court  in London  ruled that the Scottish Parliament does not have the power to call a new independence referendum without the consent of the British government. The …

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The National

ANC leader: Catalonia should take note of indyref2 strategy

THE Scottish Government’s strategy for a second independence referendum should act as an example for Catalonia, according to the president of one of the country’s largest pro-independence organisations.

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Assemblea consolidates bonds with Scotland’s pro-independence movement

The President of the Catalan National Assembly, Elisenda Paluzie met with representatives of the Scottish civil society, worker unions, members of the Scottish National Party and the Scottish Green Party, …

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Euronews

How Scots and Catalans are looking to each other to ease their independence woes

The Saltire and the Estelada flags are almost always found together at marches in support of independence, be they down the Royal Mile, Edinburgh’s medieval thoroughfare, or along Barcelona’s tree-lined …

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The Irish Times

The Irish Times view on Scottish independence: SNP raises the stakes

Westminster should engage constructively and imaginatively on nature of Scotland’s place within UK. The Belfast Agreement stipulates that if “at any time it appears likely” to a secretary of state …

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The Guardian

Sturgeon: SNP will hold Scottish independence vote if it wins in May

Nicola Sturgeon has said she will hold an advisory referendum on independence if her Scottish National party wins a majority in May’s Holyrood elections, regardless of whether Westminster consents to …

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The National

Revealed: Spain’s secret dossier on Nicola Sturgeon’s speech

An official from the Spanish embassy followed last year’s SNP conference in Glasgow and, as well as reporting on the First Minister’s address, highlighted a tribute to former Catalan education minister Professor Clara Ponsati – The …

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Financial Times

The Catalan independence campaigner in political exile in Scotland

Clara Ponsatí’s rented house in St Andrews is a far cry from her art-filled flat in Barcelona but she risks arrest if she returns there.

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