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Catalonia loses 59,500 jobs in August as unemployment rises
1+ week, 3+ day ago (470+ words) Employment in Catalonia fell by 59,500 people in August, a 1.48% drop that took the number of registered workers below 4 million. Despite the decline, Social Security membership rose 3% year-on-year to 3,965,220, a record for August, helped in part by the recent regularisation of…...
Catalonia heads into National Day amid amnesty delays and far-right tensions
3+ day, 35+ min ago (661+ words) Latest update: September 10, 2026 02:02 PM Catalonia heads into its National Day on Friday, September 11, with Spain's 2024 amnesty law still not fully implemented, the possible return of former president Carles Puigdemont looming over politics, and growing tensions over the rise of the…...
Catalan Afterwork invites international residents living in Barcelona to practice Catalan
2+ day, 21+ hour ago (149+ words) International residents who have moved to Barcelona will have an opportunity to practice Catalan and learn more about the language at an upcoming Catalan Afterwork session. The event, organised in collaboration with the Barcelona Linguistic Normalisation Centre, is designed to…...
20 years of Catalan culture online:.cat domain celebrates anniversary
2+ day, 22+ hour ago (199+ words) The.cat domain celebrated its 20th anniversary Wednesday at the Barcelona Maritime Museum. The event served to highlight the domain's journey since its creation and, at the same time, address the challenges posed by the digital era. Approved in 2005,.cat was…...
Three injured, two serious, in explosion at chemistry lab in Tarragona university
5+ day, 22+ hour ago (342+ words) Latest update: September 7, 2026 01:37 PM An explosion in the practical laboratory of the Faculty of Chemistry of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), on Marcel·lí Domingo Street in Tarragona, has caused three injuries on Monday morning. Two of them, a…...
Spain renews push for Catalan to become official EU language
1+ week, 3+ day ago (730+ words) The Spanish government has asked for Catalan, Basque and Galician to be added to the agenda of the EU General Affairs Council meeting on September 22, where the bloc's European affairs ministers will meet in Brussels. Spain has submitted the request,…...
Record-hot summer: Catalonia records 20 days above 40°C
1+ week, 4+ day ago (550+ words) This summer was the hottest ever recorded in Catalonia, with temperatures more than 3°C above the 1991-2020 average across 80% of the territory, according to the Catalan Meteorological Service (Meteocat). Meteocat stations recorded 20 days with temperatures above 40°C between June and August,…...
Chef Ferran Adrià and ALBA Synchrotron director Caterina Biscari awarded Catalonia's Gold Medal
1+ week, 4+ day ago (208+ words) Chef Ferran Adrià and physicist Caterina Biscari, director of the ALBA Synchrotron, will receive Catalonia's Gold Medal (Medalla d'Or) for their "extraordinary" careers and their contribution to "projecting Catalonia onto the world stage" in gastronomy, innovation and science. The Catalan…...
Catalonia welcomes nearly 2.4 million international tourists in July, up 0.8%
1+ week, 5+ day ago (408+ words) Catalonia received 2,374,497 international tourists in July, 0.8% more than in the same month last year, according to provisional data released on Tuesday by Spain's National Statistics Institute (INE). Year-on-year figures have risen for four consecutive months since April, reversing the slowdown…...
Catalonia's oldest woman turns 112: 'When I was little, there was only one man with a car in Olot"
2+ week, 5+ day ago (493+ words) Latest update: August 24, 2026 06:54 PM The oldest woman in Catalonia, Carme Noguera, celebrated her 112th birthday over the weekend. She was born on August 22, 1914, in Olot, during the earliest stages of the First World War. More than a century later, she still…...