The French government is telling citizens to stay away from the Catalonia region of Spain which has seen a sharp rise in COVID-19 cases. The French government is ... That includes 1,062 new ...

Petroc Trelawny reports from the French village of Laroque des Alberes, where many locals identify themselves as Catalan.

Nationalist gains at the ballot box in Corsica may have earned the French island comparisons with Catalonia, but even its hardcore separatists admit that breaking away is a distant dream. The ...

Catalonia's former president Carles Puigdemont, who has been living in self-exile since a failed independence bid seven years ago, believes his party is "neck and neck" with Spain's ruling ...

MADRID (Reuters) - The parliament of Spain's Catalonia region is set to elect a new leader this week, although the event may be upstaged by the return of its former leader from self-imposed exile ...

But after the French beat Spain at the Battle of Dunkirk in 1658, a treaty ceded the northern parts of Catalonia to the French crown, and the area has remained under the control of Paris ever since.