Possible Clues:

• At least one of two leaders in really autonomous principality
• Mountainous country with soldiers and gunmen
• What Hollande is co-prince of
• An artist having to accept party runs microstate
• Microstate since 1278
• Mountain enclave with soldiers and gunmen
• Tiny neighbor of Spain
• Site #2
• Only country in which Catalan is the official language
• Gossip surrounds party on Republican right in state