CIRSD

Catalan independence – article by Vicent Partal

The crisis between Spain and Catalonia is not new, as there has been a political and institutional conflict between the two nations since at least the eighteenth century. During this …

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The Catalan National Assembly appears as a witness before the Catalan parliament’s Committee of inquiry into the Catalangate affair

Assemblea’s President  Dolors Feliu denounced that six members of the organization are victims of the Catalangate espionage for their pro-independence activism, and recalled the repeated failure of the dialogue table …

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The Catalan National Assembly brings together dignitaries from unrepresented peoples and nations worldwide in an event on self-determination and independence in Barcelona

The Catalan National Assembly organised an event on self-determination and independence in the modernist Hospital de Sant Pau complex in Barcelona last week, that counted with the expertise of members …

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Catalan News

Prosecutors request prison sentences for former senior pro-independence officials

Ex vice president’s right-hand-men face up to seven years behind bars while current culture minister could be disqualified

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Iridia

Statement on police infiltration in social movements in recent years in Barcelona

88 organisations declare their support for the five activists bringing legal action over the infiltration of social and labour movements by a police officer from the Spanish National Police Corps in …

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Vilaweb

New Bank of Spain board member resigns after accusation of supporting Catalan professor and exiled minister Clara Ponsatí

Antonio Cabrales was appointed with the support of the PP. He resigned six hours later after a media campaign by Spanish nationalists.

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El Nacional

Spanish government celebrates that Catalonia’s referendum is still punished by justice

Spokesperson Isabel Rodríguez considers that Supreme Court ruling responds to a will to “penalize” the events of October 2017

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Catalan News

Supreme Court lifts bans from public office for half of pardoned referendum leaders

Heads of mainstream pro-independence parties Turull and Junqueras still disqualified until 2030 and 2031

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Vilaweb

Llarena’s Boomerang: The Constitutional Turn of the CJEU’s Decision

This is a first step –now national courts must make use of the space provided by Luxembourg. But it is an important step, and certainly not the one Pablo Llarena …

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The European Court of Justice rules that judicial authorities may refuse to execute a European arrest warrant on the basis of deficiencies affecting the judicial protection of an “objectively identifiable group of persons”

The European Court of Justice (CJEU) has ruled that European arrest warrants can only be rejected when there is proof of a systematic failure of the judicial system or if …

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