While Europe struggles to find a common way forward, some regions are looking for ways to go it alone. In Spanish Catalonia people are set to go to the polls to elect a regional government, which could see a referendum on its independence.

Calls for Catalonian independence from Spain have reached a pitch that Madrid is finding impossible to ignore. The pro-independence movement in the wealthy region has gathered steam as Spain's economy declines and a regional election next month is...

In a groundbreaking development, Scottish voters will choose in a 2014 referendum on whether to break away from the UK and become independent. The vote was agreed to yesterday by British Prime Minister David Cameron and Scottish National Party lea...

Pro-independence supporters launched the campaign they hoped would convince their fellow Scots to vote yes to independence in the upcoming referendum on the issue. The British government is opposing the move and is braced for a bitter battle to ke...