EU Observer
Russia humiliates Borrell in Moscow
“Palm Trees in the Snow,” EU top diplomat Josep Borrell said to Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow on Friday (5 February). “Huh?”, Lavrov said.
EU Observer
Conter
The Catalan Organizing Model and Scotland: Lessons from the ANC
This weekend Now Scotland, a membership organisation for the Scottish independence movement, will be launched. It draws inspiration in part from Catalonia. We can learn a great deal from the …
The Irish Times
The Irish Times view on Scottish independence: SNP raises the stakes
Westminster should engage constructively and imaginatively on nature of Scotland’s place within UK. The Belfast Agreement stipulates that if “at any time it appears likely” to a secretary of state …
The Guardian
Sturgeon: SNP will hold Scottish independence vote if it wins in May
Nicola Sturgeon has said she will hold an advisory referendum on independence if her Scottish National party wins a majority in May’s Holyrood elections, regardless of whether Westminster consents to …
Elnacional.cat
MEPs call out Spain’s self-interest in reform proposal for EU arrest warrants
The pressure from Spain to amend the European Arrest Warrant (EAW) system and introduce the possibility of automatic extradition for crimes against the constitutional integrity of states which involve violence has today prompted …
Assemblea’s position on the issue of a call for amnesty and its international implications
In December 2020, the Catalan National Assembly’s National Board passed a resolution restating that both the causes against the pro-independence movement and all open court cases arising from the protests …
BBC News
Villarejo: The rise and fall of the Spanish state’s secret fixer
Many intrigues and scandals have gripped Spain in recent years, from alleged royal corruption to ministerial dirty tricks against political rivals, yet in all that complexity one character seems to …
The National
Lluis Puig: Spanish bid to extradite Catalan former minister refused
AN appeal court in Brussels has upheld a ruling rejecting an extradition request from Spain for a former Catalan minister over his involvement in the indyref three years ago. Lluis …
Global Committee For The Rule of Law "Marco Panella"
Conversation with Carles Puigdemont on Parliamentary Immunity
On 9 December, Carles Puigdemont, MEP and former President of Catalonia, talked online from his residence in Waterloo, close to Brussels, with Matteo Angioli about the lifting of his parliamentary …
The EU Court of Justice hears the Catalan National Assembly and the Council for the Catalan Republic following the EU Commission’s veto on their European Citizens’ Initiative
This Thursday at 9:30h, the first hearing of the appeal filed by the Catalan National Assembly and the Council for the Catalan Republic before the Court of Justice of the …