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Date: 09/03/2009
Thousands of demonstrators call for self-determination for Catalonia in the streets of Brussels
Between 3,000 and 12,000 people, according to different sources, have called for independence for Catalonia in the European capital · Nationalia offers links with videos and pictures on the rally · Two days before the march, members of the European Parliament met the organizers.
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Date: 09/03/2009
Cypriot leaders disagree on property of land after 1974 evictions
NEWS IN BRIEF. Leaders decide to put off the property issue and start dealing with the EU relationship issue instead
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Date: 06/03/2009
Peoples and nations today: Cornwall
DOSSIER. “It's not that Cornwall became part of England, it's just that the English forgot Cornwall was not part of their country”. This is how some Cornish illustrate the relations between such Atlantic stateless nation and neighbouring England. Cornwall, which celebrates Saint Piran as its national feast, is a Celtic nation that, unlike Scotland, Ireland and Wales, has not been able to turn its cultural and national specificity into an effective self-government system. But this could change soon, as more than half of the population demands an autonomous assembly along the lines of their Celtic neighbours.
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Date: 04/03/2009
Scottish Parliament debates on Salmond’s referendum for independence
Unionist parties stick together to block Scottish Prime Minister’s plans to hold a plebiscite in 2010 · The Scottish National Party, currently in power, has challenged its rivals to give free vote to their deputies after a Libe Dem MSP argued in favour of the referendum.
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Date: 03/03/2009
Platform 10Mil a Brussel·les to claim for a referendum on self-determination
It intends to present a popular legislative initiative to the Catalan Parliament to debate the issue · The platform was born to organize a pro-independence demonstration in Brussels next March 7 · Members of the European Parliament will meet a Catalan delegation made up of people from the civil society.
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Date: 02/03/2009
Banning of pro-independence parties has left void more than one hundred thousand votes and allows Spanish nationalist parties to form majority in the Basque Parliament for the first time · Ibarretxe’s party wins 8 seats more, while Socialists and Aralar gain 6 and 3 more · UPyD gets its first seat ever.
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Date: 02/03/2009
PP removes socialist and nationalist coalition from office in Galicia
The Popular Party (PP), led by Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has won its 5th absolute majority since the end of Franco’s dictatorship · PSdeG and BNG have lost one seat each to PP’s profit, which has obtained 39 seats · One of the first measures announced by Feijóo is the derogation of a decree on the use of Galician language in education.
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Date: 27/02/2009
Palestinian political parties to form a national unity government
Twelve political forces, headed by Hamas and Fatah, have agreed during a round of talks in Cairo to set up committees to look at forming a new government and rebuild Gaza · The new cabinet structure has not been decided upon.
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Date: 26/02/2009
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia clears Milan Milutinovic on the counts of crimes committed against Kosovo Albanians in 1999 and will be released · Other 5 accused, among which there is a Yugoslavia’s former Prime Minister and 2 Yugoslav army generals, have been accused of crimes against humanity.
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Date: 25/02/2009
Poland ratifies European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages
Warsaw identifies in the declaration 15 different “minority languages” spoken in the country · Poland makes the 24th State of the Council of Europe to back the Charter · France, Greece and Russia, among the countries which have not yet ratified or, in some cases, even signed the Charter in spite of their internal language diversity.
