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The Catalans can choose a new regional parliament of 135 seats on Thursday. It is already the fourth election in seven years time, but according to opinion pollers, the turnout seems to be going back by more than two years at around 80 percent. Then three-quarters of the voters came up. There is also a lot at stake in the shredded region, where fanatical separatists and pragmatic forces confront each other. The latter fear that independence turns out to be a disaster for the relatively prosperous Catalonia.

Barcelona Tens of thousands of separatist Catalans demonstrate on Thursday in Brussels for 'the Catalan case' and support their 'president' Puigdemont. Calculated on the Spanish 'Day of the Constitution' they left in cars, planes, buses, from Barcelona, ​​Girona and Taragona. Spain, which celebrated '34 years of democracy 'on Wednesday, is proud of its constitution, which also governs the agreements between regions and' Madrid '. But the Catalans in Brussels are the constitution and want their own constitution.

The five deposed Catalan former ministers who have fled to Belgium remain there 'for the moment.' Former Prime Minister Carles Puigdemont said on Wednesday in Brussels that they first want to make clear what happens when they return to Spain.

The Spanish police have detected € 210 million worth of cocaine between a shipment of bananas from Colombia. It is a huge six-ton ​​lot that was intercepted near the port city of Cádiz.

The international arrest warrant against, among others, the Catalan former Prime Minister Carles Puigdemont was withdrawn by the Spanish judicial authorities on Tuesday.

The deposed Catalan former prime minister Carles Puigdemont and four of his former ministers will be informed next Thursday whether Belgium will hand them over to Spain. Then the council chamber of the court in Brussels speaks out, the Public Prosecutor and the lawyers of the quintet report.

The Catalan political parties that strive for independence threaten to lose their majority in parliament during the regional elections on 21 December.

Seven ministers of the Catalan regional government are released on bail.

The court in Brussels will re-examine Monday the extradition to Spain of the deposed Catalan former prime minister Carles Puigdemont and four of his former ministers.

Prominent detained separatists from Catalonia, including ex-vice premier of the Oriol Junqueras region, recognize the Spanish authority in Catalonia on closer inspection. In a request for release they have promised the court to respect the Spanish constitution.

We can all remember it: the hilarity surrounding the unveiling of the first bust of star footballer Christiano Ronaldo. Now he gets one that does look like him.

The elections held by the Spanish government in Catalonia on 21 December will be a public opinion on Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy. That is what the deposed Catalan president Carles Puigdemont believes.

The police in the Spanish capital Madrid has been discredited by texts that have exchanged a WhatsApp group. In it, among others, Adolf Hitler was reviled and bad language was used on migrants.

Venezuelan opposition leader Antonio Ledezma Díaz arrived Saturday in Spain. The ex-mayor of Caracas had fled to Colombia from his home country a day earlier. He then boarded the plane to Europe.

The court in Brussels is considering Friday's extradition to Spain of the former Catalan Prime Minister Carles Puigdemont and four of his ex-ministers. They left Belgium at the end of last month after their government was deported because it had unlawfully declared independence.

The question of whether the Belgian justice will hand over the deposed Catalan Prime Minister Carles Puigdemont to Spain is probably not answered on Friday. This suspicion Spanish media. The Belgian judiciary has requested additional information from colleagues in Spain, including the accusations and the conditions in prisons in Spain.

The Catalan separatist politician Carles Puigdemont expressed himself in Brussels for 'another anchoring of Catalonia in Spain'.

The chairman of the Catalan government parliament, Carme Forcadell, 61, paid a deposit of 150,000 euros on Friday in Madrid. It will be released during Friday.

A judge of the Spanish Supreme Court ordered to release the president of the Catalan government parliament on bail. She comes free when the deposit of 150,000 euros has been paid, said a source at the court.

The Spanish Constitutional Court officially destroyed the independence declaration of the Autonomous Region of Catalonia Wednesday as expected. The court had already suspended the statement.

The Catalan ex-premier Carles Puigdemont and four of his former ministers are likely to hear Friday whether Belgium is sending them to Spain. The council in Brussels then meets behind closed doors to bend over the European arrest warrant issued by Madrid, according to the Brussels parquet.

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Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont does not travel to Madrid to make a statement for the Spanish Senate. He would go to the Spanish capital on Thursday or Friday to explain the Catalan aspiration of independence.