Politico
European Parliament ex-president broke law by barring Catalan separatists, top court adviser says
Antonio Tajani refused to admit MEPs-elect Carles Puigdemont and Toni Comín for 8 months after the 2019 European election.
Politico
The Catalan National Assembly, over sixty representatives of European civil society, MEPs and former MEPs, appeal to Von der Leyen and Sassoli to denounce the waiver of parliamentary immunity for Catalan MEPs
65 representatives of civil society, as well as former and current MEPs across Europe have co-signed a letter spearheaded by the Catalan National Assembly to appeal to the European Institutions …
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 …
Vilaweb
MEP Clare Daly: “It is very clear that a lot of people here do not want to hear about Catalonia”
The rapporteur of a European Parliament report on fundamental rights in the Union, Clare Daly, has denounced being barred from mentioning the situation of the Catalan political prisoners in the report. …
Catalan News
EU parliament protesters unfurl banner that saw Catalan president banned from office
Fifteen MEPs gathered in front of the European Parliament to unfurl a banner in support of the jailed Catalan pro-independence leaders, the same one that saw the ousted Catalan president Quim Torra …
Politico
20 MEPs to watch in 2020
The European Parliament is younger, more diverse — and more divided — than ever. It has also increasingly been flexing its muscles in EU decision-making, and many MEPs are expected …
El Nacional
Catalan independence at the UN: how the legal battle at Geneva is being waged
With the Supreme Court verdict in the Catalan independence trial pending, and expected to be emphatic, and with the more than obvious discrediting of Spanish justice recently, especially with regard to its handling …
Vilaweb
Court of Justice admits appeal of Puigdemont and Comín to be recognised as MEPs
The European Court of Justice, based in Luxembourg, has accepted the procedure only four hours after the lawyer of exiled president Carles Puigdemont and his former minister Toni Comín presented …