Les Halles Vauban  NOW OPEN The long-awaited €1.5 million project is set to be unveiled in the centre of Perpignan. The Halles du quai Vauban, a privately-funded covered food market, will bring together 24 vendors,…

From January to September 2017, the gendarmes recorded 4,000 speeding offences with mobile speed traps, 18 000 offences with the ‘nouvelle génération’ roadside radars, and a massive 68,456 tickets were issued after being flashed by fixed radars.

The declaration of Independence for Catalonia was suspended for the time being by Catalan president Carles Puigdemont conditional on talks with the Spanish government in Madrid in a bid to resolve what must be Spain’s worst political crisis for 40 years.

The European Commission has confirmed that the Catalan independence referendum was “not legal” according to Spanish law, and described aggressive beating of peaceful protesters by the Spanish riot police as an “internal matter”.

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