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…...

2+ day, 19+ hour 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…...

2+ day, 16+ 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…...

2+ day, 17+ 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…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (424+ words) The European Commission’s new Affordable Housing Act creates a legal framework for Catalonia to restrict speculative home purchases, EU Housing Commissioner Dan Jørgensen told the Catalan News Agency (ACN) on Wednesday, while stressing that any new measures will have to…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (656+ words) Latest update: September 9, 2026 04:02 PM The Catalan government has lifted travel restrictions and the suspension of non-urgent healthcare activities in the five counties where the measures were imposed amid forecasts of severe storms: Alt Penedès, Baix Penedès, Garraf, Baix Llobregat and…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (478+ words) On Tuesday, the PISA results were published, giving a benchmark of reading, mathematics, and science comprehension of students around the world. However, this year, Catalonia's results are invalid, after an error in the testing was revealed some months ago. Nevertheless,…...

5+ day, 17+ 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…...

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,…...

1+ week, 3+ 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,…...