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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El Nacional

Spanish Constitutional Court consummates its challenge to Sánchez and halts judicial reform

A divided Court agrees on the interim measures demanded by the opposition PP and halts judicial reform bill in upper house

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El Nacional

Saskia Bricmont, MEP: “Spain tried to silence the victims of Catalangate”

Greens MEP on the Pegasus committee criticizes Spain for its refusal to explain the espionage on Catalan independentism

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Vilaweb

Amnesty International concerned by Spain’s proposal of public order crime redifinition

Amnesty International has issued a statement criticizing some aspects of the reform of the Spanish penal code agreed between the Spanish government and ERC.

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Catalan News

‘Scotland and Catalonia have inalienable right to self-determination’

Catalonia’s pro-independence camp voices support for Scottish counterparts after UK supreme court rules against new referendum

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Vilaweb

Spain to replace crime of sedition with aggravated public disorder

Catalonia’s pro-independence camp is far away from convinced by the reform, except for ERC

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Vilaweb

Marcel Kolaja: “The main political groups are doing all they can to thwart a fact-finding mission to Spain”

An interview with Marcel Kolaja, a Czech MEP, a member of the Bureau of the European Parliament and the Pegasus Commission, on Catalangate’s impact in Brussels

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