The politician who reconvened the Scottish Parliament after almost 300 years has been gifted the desk she sat at during the historic ceremony. The Scottish National Party’s Winnie Ewing opened the first meeting in 1999. The desk she sat behind became surplus to requirements when the parliament moved from The Mound to its new home.
Reuters reports that a leading Catalan nationalist politician has hit out against Madrid’s bid for the 2012 Summer Olympic Games after claiming the state has been trying to prevent the recognition of separate Catalan federations in international sports bodies. Josep Lluis Carod Rovira, the leader of the left-wing Catalan nationalist party ERC said, “anyone who
In the absence of any proof or evidence to show there was a link between the newspaper Egunkaria and ETA, each of the lawyers of the seven people charged in the summary proceedings relating to the closing down of the paper have filed appeals against the indictment to request that the examining judge drop the
The Scottish Parliament has resolved the issue of which flags to fly outside the new building in Edinburgh. The Saltire, the Union and the European Union flags will fly at all times. When the Queen visits the Royal Standard will be flown and a fifth flagpole will be erected when a foreign dignitary is at
L’Armée du peuple corse (APC) a menacé de passer à l’action “dans un mois exactement” contre des cibles déjà “verrouillées” si l’Etat ne s’engage pas en faveur du “regroupement” des prisonniers et de “l’arrêt des poursuites” contre les “combattants du peuple corse”, dans un communiqué authentifié transmis lundi à l’AFP. Lisant un texte, qui s’adresse
Lo 06 de julhet de 2005, lo Comitat Olimpic Internacional causirà la vilà qu’aculhirà los Jòcs olimpiques e paralimpiques de 2012. París se portèt candidata e demandèt a las 34 000 comunas de la Republica de li porgir un sosten financièr en crompant « un ensems de materials de comunicacion que permetrà de mobilisar lo
The chairman of Federación de Futbol Argentina (AFA), Julio Grondona, announced through Catalunya Ràdio broadcasting station, that the National Argentinian team will meet the Catalan one at Christmas, exactly on December 29, at Camp Nou (the play-field of Barcelona Futbol Club). On the Argentinian side, the match will be played by the main non-injured stars,
Nationalists are seeking to block the sale of a house built on the site where Scots hero Rob Roy MacGregor was reputedly born. Glengyle House, by the shores of Loch Katrine, is described by owner Scottish Water as “the jewel in the crown”. Scottish National Party MSP Richard Lochhead urged Environment Minister Ross Finnie to
In honour of Lisa Simpson taking up the Cornish cause and shouting ‘rydhsys rag Kernow lemmyn’ (Freedom for Cornwall now), Warlinenn is dedicating a page to the yellow-skinned girl from Springfield. This event will occur on Channel 4 on Christmas Day while the Queen of England is spouting on the BBC. I know what I
L’Association des Elus Municipaux Bretons, section de Loire-Atlantique, se félicite du vote unanime (83 membres) par le Conseil régional de Bretagne de la résolution en faveur de la réunification de la Bretagne. L’A.E.M.B. regrette la réaction de M. Auxiette, notamment ses propos en ce qui concerne une soit-disante « annexion » de notre département. Si
Anders Eriksson, the chairman of the separatist Ålands Framtid (Åland’s Future) party, is to be removed from the delegation that the semi-autonomous province has in the Nordic Council. Åland, a group of islands situated between Sweden and mainland Finland, are a part of Finland, but enjoy wide-ranging autonomous powers. At a session of the Nordic
Gaelic campaigners claim Scotland’s native tongue should be given equal status with English in schools in a bid to ensure its survival. MSPs were told the Gaelic Language Bill would not protect its future and urged to make it compulsory for councils to provide Gaelic language education. Comann nam Pàrant, a Gaelic support body, told
A Patagonian man at the centre of a row over his visa has chosen to return home from Wales despite being told he could stay another week. Luis Austin, who speaks only Welsh and Spanish, had been told to leave the UK at short notice for failing to say he was staying with his girlfriend.
Most of the political parties in the Basque Country, except the Government of Navarre and the PP, acknowledged yesterday that the Basque nationalist left had taken a new step forward through the proposal presented by Batasuna on Sunday. On the whole, despite slight differences one way or the other, most of the political parties plus
Institut d’Estudis Catalans (IEC), in its endeavours to apply new technologies to its scientific pursues, introduces today, November 16, a new web supplying every scientific magazine published in the Catalan area. According to IEC, the greatest publisher of scientific books in Catalan, the institution is making a ‘titanic effort’ to keep Catalan as a living