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 …
CIRSD
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 …
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 …
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
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 …
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.
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
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
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 …
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 …