Foreign Affairs
Spain Digs Up Its Past
Franco died. Francoism didn’t.
Foreign Affairs
Catalan News
Court chamber trying pro-independence leaders ‘controlled’ by PP, show leaked chats
Spain’s People’s Party (PP) will “control from the behind the scenes” the trial prosecuting Catalan leaders for organizing a referendum on independence, according to leaked chats from the party’s spokesperson …
Daily Mirror
Pep Guardiola in prison visit to meet Catalan pro-independence leaders
The Manchester City boss used the international break to meet the jailed leaders at Lledoners Prison just outside Barcelona.
The Assemblea Denounces the Political Bias of an Event Organized by the Spanish Cultural Institution, the Instituto Cervantes, in Frankfurt
ANC Deutschland has denounced the Instituto Cervantes, a Spanish public organization funded with public money, for holding a political event in Frankfurt-am-Main. The event next Friday, 16 November, will take …
The Conversation
Catalonia: a year on, political prisoners go unnoticed by the rest of the world
After an unofficial referendum in October 2017, the pro-independence political parties in the Catalan parliament unilaterally declared independence from Spain. In response, the Spanish government invoked Article 155 of the …
Taipei News Network
Jordi Cuixart: I Am A Political Prisoner In Spain! (OP-ED)
For a year now I have been locked up in a cell and I look at the sky through bars. For a year now I have seen my 18-month old …
Catalan News
Former Catalan officials ordered to pay €4.9m for 2014 vote on independence
Artur Mas and other leaders are one step closer to lose properties worth some 2 million.
Daily Mirror
Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola reveals why he feared he could have been jailed
Guardiola has been a staunch supporter of the activists who were imprisoned following the Catalan referendum.
El Nacional
MEPs warn that prosecutors have “destroyed any hope of meaningful negotiation” on Catalonia
The EU-Catalonia dialogue platform, comprised of MEPs who support a negotiated solution between Spain and Catalonia, say that prosecutors’ application for a total of more than 177 years in prison for …
Catalan News
Danish MPs to look into joining international observers of independence trial
“If Catalan society calls on us, we will be there,” say parliamentarians from Denmark visiting jailed political leaders”If Catalan society calls on us, we will be there,” say parliamentarians from …