Thousands march for independence in Majorca

Around 5,000 people, according to the organizers, participated this Sunday, December 30th, at the traditional demonstration claim framed in the acts of the Day of Majorca. The rally remembers the Catalan conquest of the city in 1229. The manifestation, very colorful, with the participation of the leaders of the main sovereign...

Read more »

Sicilian independentists commemorate the last battle of the EVIS (Voluntary Army for the Independence of Sicily) in 1943

On December 30th it was commemorated in Monte San Mauro (Caltagirone) the last battle of the EVIS (Voluntary Army for the Independence of Sicily), commanded by Concetto Gallo and referred to the 73th anniversary. The event, organized by the Sicilian National Front - Free Sicialia (FNS-SL), also attended 'Siciliani Liberi' and...

Read more »

Saami Council confound by Norway’s disrespect of CERD’s request to suspend construction of power plant on traditional Sami territory

On 21 December 2018, Norway officially announced that it ignores a request by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) to suspend the construction of a power plant within the traditional territory of the indigenous Åerjel Fovsen Sijte Sami reindeer herding community. The request was enacted by the Committee...

Read more »

Flemish Minister N-VA predicts a Flemish Republic

Ben Weyts, N-VA Flemish Minister predicts a Flemish Republic in 30 years. The Flemish Minister presented his wishes on Thursday in a video in which the N-VA Minister for Mobility and Animal Welfare imagines Belgium in 2048. The politician having taken some wrinkles installed in his chair, the newspaper "De Beste Standaard" in hand. While...

Read more »

The General Assemblies of Biscay approve the detachment of Basque society of the constitution and that the monarchy is an "historical and democratic anachronism"

The Spanish monarchy is an "historical and democratic anachronism". The General Assemblies of Biscay (Bizkaia Batzar Nagusiak in Basque) approved on December 26th a EAJ-PNV (Basque Nationalist Party) proposal which shows the detachment of Basque society by the constitutional pact and the need for the figure of the head of state to be elected periodically. EAJ-PNV, PSOE, EH Bildu and Podemos had each presented their own proposal...

Read more »

29 Venetian people processed for tax disobedience dennounce Italian "fiscal depredation"

On December 19, a judicial process began in Vicenza against 29 members of the Comitato Liberazione Nazionale Veneto (CLNV) founded in 2014. They are accused of promoting the instigation of tax evasion. They are being asked 5 years in prison. The pro-independence activists, led by Patrizia Badii and Ruggero Peretti, defended their right...

Read more »

Norwegian law threatens Sami lands where reindeer are a way of life

Reindeer herding is not a job for many Sami, an indigenous people of fewer than 140,000 who inhabit mostly the northern reaches of Sweden, Norway, Finland and Russia. It is a way of life. Jovsset Ante Sara, a boyish-­looking 26-year-old, knows his section of the tundra as if it were a city grid, every hill and valley familiar,...

Read more »

Mebyon Kernow denounces that Cornish people to be denied a tickbox on the 2021 census

“The Cornish are recognised as a national minority through the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities, just the same as the Irish, Scots and Welsh. It is scandalous that the UK Government and Office of National Statistics consider it acceptable that the Cornish will be the only UK national minority to be denied...

Read more »

The Chairman of the Council of the Frisian Movement resigns

Geart Benedictus resigned to the Presidency of the Council of the Frisian Movement (Ried fan de Fryske Beweging) this month. His function is now observed by Pier Bergsma. On the large general membership meeting with all annexed organizations in 2019 the Ried will choose called a new chairman. Benedict, who has many other functions, had...

Read more »

Scotland does not need Tory approval for a referendum

We are getting to the crunch point of what my colleague and friend Michael Russell calls the “Brexit bourach”. As we do, I admit to becoming utterly scunnered with Tory MPs and ministers seeking to justify all the costs and pain of Brexit by saying: “In my constituency, 60+% voted Leave and I am determined that Brexit will be delivered...

Read more »

Thousands of Flemish march in Brussels against U.N. migration pact

Thousands of people marched in Brussels on Sunday against a U.N. pact aimed at fostering cooperation on migration, eclipsing a smaller demonstration in support of the deal, the signing of which brought down Belgium’s government last week. Police said some 5,500 people marched in the bigger protest, organized by Vlaams Velang and Flemish...

Read more »

Human rights activist and former liberal joins the Flemish N-VA

The human rights campaigner and former Francophone liberal councilor Assita Kanko is set to stand for the Flemish nationalists at the elections next May. Ms Kanko campaigns against female circumcision and other women’s rights issues and was a councilor for the Francophone liberals in the Brussels municipality of Elsene. Ms Kanko explained...

Read more »

Adam Price, new Plaid Cymru leader, advocates for a "reformed Europe" taking more account of the smaller nations

Reform should be the dominant message for any campaign for staying inside the EU, Plaid Cymru’s leader Adam Price declared in a passionate address to the European Policy Centre in Brussels last week. “This should be the centrepiece of EU economic and social strategy,” Price said. “That would give meaning to the shared solidarity...

Read more »

Edmond Simeoni, the "father" of contemporary Corsican national movement, dies

Edmond Simeoni, the "father" of contemporary Corsican nationalism and father of the Executive Council of the Corsican Assembly Gilles Simeoni, died on December 14th at the age of 84, the most outstanding Corsican political figure of the past fifty years, both founders of islandationalism, environmental activist before the hour and sometimes...

Read more »

On the withdrawal of the N-VA from the federal government: The text of that Compact is not only at odds with our vision of migration, but also with what the general population actually wants

The N-VA is no longer part of the Belgian federal government. On Sunday December 9th, the N-VA ministers and secretaries of state resigned after it became clear that Prime Minister Charles Michel would follow through on his intention to show his support for the UN Compact for Migration in Marrakech. On Saturday morning, N-VA chairman...

Read more »

Tribute to Sepp Kerschbaumer and the South Tyrolean Liberation Committee

Sepp Kerschbaumer (9 November 1913 – 7 December 1964) was a leading member of the South Tyrolean Liberation Committee (Befreiungsausschuss Südtirol, BAS). In 1961, the BAS staged the so-called Feuernacht (Night of Fire), the destruction of 37 electricity pylons, which escalated the South Tyrol conflict. Large parts of the South Tyroleans...

Read more »

A thousand people claim for Brittany's reunification in Rennes

The rally was organized by the Democratic Breton Coordination on December 8th. Last September the same civical movement attracted 4,000 people in Nantes. The demonstrators claimed for a Democratic Referendum to decide if the southern Loire Atlantique region wants to unite, again, with the rest of Brittany. For the last 77 years, Brittany...

Read more »

5th International Meeting of Young Independentists in Sardinia Ends

Scida Assòtziu thanked everyone for Atòbiu2018 - 5th International Meeting of Young Independentists. This year they had guests in Casteddu delegations from Catalunya (Marc Casanova from Jovent Republicà), Galicia (Argantael Baxter from Galiza Nova), Euskadi (Denis Ugarte Arzak, militant of Basque independentist left) and Veneto...

Read more »

Flemish N-VA quits the Belgian government

In a move that hasn’t been seen in Belgium since the 1970s, the federal government’s largest party, N-VA (New Flemish Alliance), has switched to the opposition. Previously sitting in the majority with Open VLD, CD&V and the French-speaking MR, N-VA will now join the other parties in the opposition, creating a ruling minority coalition.With...

Read more »

Frisian National Party form coalition with liberals and christian democrats

The Fryske Marren will be ruled by CDA, christian democrats, FNP,  Fryske Nasjonale Partij,  and VVD, liberals. Together they have 19 of the 31 board seats. The current group of aldermen will be able to continue his work and VVD member Jos Boerland will be included. In the past four years the CDA and the FNP formed the coalition...

Read more »

N-VA: We won’t quit government or back UN pact

The Flemish New Alliance (Nieuw-Vlaamse Alliantie, N-VA) won’t quit the government but voted against signing an international migration agreement. The government is formed by rightist Walloon MR party, wich is the only French-speaking one in a precarious coalition with three Flemish parties. The imbalance appears to be made greater still...

Read more »

Police hit severely Catalan demonstrators in Girona; 19 wounded, 1 detained

The police clashed with a group of Catalan antifascist demonstrators in Girona, northern Catalonia, on Thursday, coinciding with the 40th anniversary of the Spanish Constitution. The rally was aiming to protest against an event to mark the constitution's jubilee in the city, supported by parties including the far right Vox...

Read more »

Galician National Block rally against the Spanish constitution

The Galician Nationalist Bloc (BNG) gathered at the square of Obradoiro, in Compostela, demanding self-determination on December 6th. The Galician national movement has denounced the centralization of Spain and recalled that in the 40 years of the Spanish constitution Galicia has lost 3% of the population and its GDP has fallen from 6% to...

Read more »

Thousands rally for a Basque Republic and against Spanish Constitution

On the 40th anniversary of the Spanish constitution, thousands filled the streets in Bilbao, to claim for a Basque Republic In front of the autocratic framework that Spain imposes to its peoples, Basques, Catalans & Galicians must build their own Republics. The Basque coalition EH Bildu convoked the rally 40 years after the Spanish...

Read more »