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• Date: 09/05/2011

  Scotland to call a referendum on independence

  

  Impressive majority in Scottish Parliament election gives the SNP the capacity and legitimacy to call the vote · Alex Salmond thinks of organizing the referendum in the second half of the term · The UK government has announced that it will not block the vote · No party had achieved an overall majority in Holyrood since 1999, when the Parliament was established

• Date: 06/05/2011

  Bildu allowed to contest elections after new ruling of Spanish Constitutional Court

  Judges consider there is no reason enough to bar the coalition from the elections · Bildu leaders thank Basque society for its pro-democracy mobilization

• Date: 03/05/2011

  Huge blow for Bloc Quebecois in Canadian federal election

  

  Gilles Duceppe. / Photo: Louperivois

  Pro-independence party only gets 4 seats, their worst result ever · The New Democratic Party obtains 58 out of 75 contested seats in Quebec · BQ leader Gilles Duceppe resigns · The Conservatives get an overall majority in the House of Commons

• Date: 02/05/2011

  Spanish Supreme Court bars Bildu from elections

  

  Bildu leaders.

  The ruling says that some members in the pro-independence coalition are linked to outlawed Batasuna · Bildu denies the charges and will appeal to the Spanish Constitutional Court · EA and Alternatiba, both coalition members, have always opposed ETA violence

• Date: 28/04/2011

  Independence referendum regains momentum in last phase of Scottish election campaign

  

  Opinion polls predict that the pro-independence SNP and Greens could gather an overall majority in next week's vote · Labour asks Salmond “not to hide” his plan “for independence” · SNP leader predicts that Scotland could achieve statehood in 2018

• Date: 27/04/2011

  Hydroelectric dam in Ethiopia threatens 300,000 indigenous people in Omo river

  

  Seasonal flooding allowing river bank cultivation may disappear if the dam is completed · Southern area in the region was recognized as World Heritage Site · Mounting pressure has prevented the European Bank from financing the project

• Date: 20/04/2011

  Dispersed Hungarians, united by Europe

  EDITORIAL. The new Constitution of Hungary (recently passed by the Magyar legislature) has been accused of being too nationalistic and going back to 19th century Kingdom of Hungary. It is indeed true that Hungarian politics are now affected by the appearance of some fearful facts, such as the rise of Jobbik party. But, president-emeritus of CIEMEN Aureli Argemí thinks, this should not distract us from the fact that issues regarding Hungarian ethnic minorities in neighbouring countries have not yet been settled.

• Date: 18/04/2011

  Valencians march in the tens of thousands for Catalan television

  

  The demonstration in Valencia. / Photo: ACPV

  Demonstrators protest against TV3 broadcast cut ordered by the Valencian government · The cultural organization ACPV, who formerly secured the reception of the Catalan channel, needs money to pay a fine of 800,000 euros

• Date: 11/04/2011

  Majority of voters in Barcelona back an independent Catalonia in non-binding referendum

  

  The “yes” vote reach about 90% of the ballots, with a turnout of 21,37% · The results are successful, claims the organizing committee · In total, more that 800,000 Catalans have voted for independence in popular consultations

• Date: 05/04/2011

  Salmond's SNP turning opinion polls around

  

  Alex Salmond is campaigning

  Signs appearing that Labour will not head May 5th vote in Scotland · Disenchanted Liberal Democrat voters who refuse Cameron-Clegg pact may turn to SNP