Exit polls show that separatist parties are winning a majority of the votes in Catalonia’s regional elections. The local elections are described as a quasi-referendum on separation from Spain. The potential victory for the pro-independence parties in the regional parliament will be setting the region on a collision course with Spain’s central government over independence. The main secessionist... 

A Spanish Radio program which said Jews were promoting Satanism recently raised the ire of Israelis. One of the program’s episodes says Jews “propagated the cult of Lucifer” and even used black magic to “call on the powers of darkness.” The controversial episode dubbed ‘From the Inferno-The Jewish People: Propagator of the Satan Cult’ appeared in the ‘A la Carta’ radio program aired... 

Workers installing tents at Zaragoza Air Base, Spain, for NATO’s massive Exercise Trident Juncture due to be held in September 2015. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has launched massive military drills across Europe, in what is seen as a move to deter alleged threats from Russia in the region. According to reports on Tuesday, Germany, Italy, Bulgaria and Romania are currently hosting... 

Scotland says it will ban genetically modified crops on its soil. According to officials, the move will protect the environment. They are also taking advantage of new EU laws, allowing member states to decide whether they want to grow the crops or not. Although the EU imports large quantities of GM crops from abroad, it is less sure about growing them on their own soil. Some environmental groups are... 

The cost of global war in the year 2014 reached $14.3 trillion, or 13.4 percent of the global gross domestic product, a report by the Institute for Economics and Peace says. Last year, the cost of global conflict equaled the combined economies of Britain, Germany, France, Brazil, Canada, and Spain, according to a recent report by the Australia-based group. The statistics mark a 15.3-percent spike... 

Eight decades after George Orwell was wounded by a fascist bullet while defending a Spanish Republican trench, his son Richard is attempting to save the Civil War-era fortifications. After visiting the trenches in which his socialist father fought fascism, Richard Blair is calling for the Spanish government to rescind policies that have seen them fall into disrepair, and instead preserve them for... 

An 8-year-old boy has been crammed into a suitcase and smuggled across the border from North Africa, Spanish police say. The Ivory Coast boy named Abou was discovered on Thursday, when police at Ceuta, a Spanish enclave next to Morocco, put the roller luggage bag through an X-ray scanner and found the silhouette of a young boy curled up inside the suitcase. “When they put the suitcase through the... 

In the last few years, hundreds of thousands of African and Arabic illegal immigrants have been pouring into Italy and Spain. This “state emergency” is increasingly upsetting the native White Italians, who have staged protests and strikes. Recently, the Italian government has told regional governments that they must make room for African and Middle Eastern immigrants, but the country is starting... 

In June 2014 the National High Court of Spain deemed illegal the layoff of 1200 workers in Coca Cola’s bottling plant in Madrid. 9 months have gone by and Coca Cola still has not complied with the law. Moreover, the National Court has also condemned the multinational company for denying its workers the right to strike. The trade unions claim that Coca Cola never had an intention to negotiate. The... 

Debt and (not much) deleveraging, McKinsey Global Institute The entire world is in debt, huge debt… a debt of 199 trillion dollars, 18 of which is own just by America alone, but the question is, to whom do we owe such a vast unimaginable sum of money? To companies? To a small 1%? Maybe communism had it right with its economic equality after all. How did the world end up in this hellhole anyway?... 

Madrid wants to see changes made to the treaty governing the visa-free Schengen area, which would allow Spain to introduce border controls to stem the tide of Islamic militants returning from the Middle East, the country’s interior minister has said. “We are going to back border controls and it is possible that as a consequence it will be necessary to modify the Schengen treaty,” Interior... 

Anti-abortion supporters try to display a banner with air balloons reading “Every life matters” during a march in Madrid. Tens of thousands of people have held a rally in the Spanish capital city of Madrid, calling on the government to revive a plan to limit women’s access to abortion. The protesters from across the country marched through the city on Saturday and waved white flags... 

Artur Mas, the president of Catalonia is seen casting his ballot to vote in a symbolic referendum in Barcelona on Catalonia’s independence from Spain, November 9, 2014. Spain’s chief prosecutor is set to launch a lawsuit against Catalonia’s President Artur Mas as well as other local officials over the autonomous region’s recent symbolic referendum on independence from Spain. Eduardo Torres-Dulce... 

Newly elected president of Romania 2014, Klaus Werner Iohannis of German descent. Romania has finally come to its senses and elected Klaus Werner Iohannis as its next president, the current mayor of former cultural capital of Europe, Sibiu, which is of German descent. Romania is one of the most poorest and corrupted nations in Europe alongside with the likes of Bulgaria, Albania and Moldova, competing... 

Spain’s Deputy Prime Minister Soraya Saenz de Santamaria. Spain’s Deputy Prime Minister Soraya Saenz de Santamaria says the Catalan region cannot be granted the right to self-determination. The Spanish official made the remarks in parliament on Tuesday, a day after more than two million people took part in an independence vote in Catalonia. “The right to self-determination that you demand...