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Council of Europe highlights Spain’s failures in fight against corruption

A new rebuke for Spain in Europe, this time over its weak response in the fight against corruption. The Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption (Greco) has asserted that the …

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Education sector protests against 25% of classes in Spanish quota

Some 7,500 teachers and students went on strike on Wednesday to urge the Catalan education ministry not to impose a ruling by Spain’s Supreme Court. The court decision confirmed 25% of …

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Catalonia criticizes Spain’s new stance on Western Sahara

All of Catalonia’s pro-independence parties – Esquerra, Junts, CUP, and PDeCAT – agreed on Saturday to request that Spain’s prime minister Pedro Sánchez answer questions in Congress regarding his decision …

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Spain’s Constitutional Court annuls vast majority of Catalan rent cap law

Spain’s Constitutional Court has annulled the vast majority of the Catalan rent cap law on Thursday. The legislation came into effect in September 2020 and affected up to 61 cities …

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Catalan News

Ex-parliament speaker to face trial for allowing vote on independence and anti-monarchy motions

he former Catalan parliament speaker Roger Torrent will face trial for allowing votes on resolutions on independence as well as the Spanish monarchy two years ago. Together with three other former …

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Pro-Ukraine and anti-war protests take to the streets in Barcelona

The impact of the Ukraine conflict is still present in Barcelona with protests in support of the invaded country on a daily basis. On Wednesday afternoon, Ukrainians gathered again for the seventh …

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Catalan News

Hundreds attend Meridiana Resisteix pro-independence protest, defying ban

Undeterred by a lack of authorization to gather and a heavy police presence, hundreds of pro-independence protesters cut off traffic on Barcelona’s Avinguda Meridiana on Saturday evening, far more than those usually …

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Spain downgraded to a ‘flawed democracy’ by The Economist index

Spain has been downgraded from a “full democracy” to a “flawed democracy” by The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) index, a sister company of British The Economist newspaper, published on Wednesday reviewing …

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PP chairperson interrupts as MEPs try to speak Catalan in European Parliament

The European Commission has, for the third time, refused to endorse the arguments of those who want to impose Spanish language in Catalan schools, and has indicated that it has no competence …

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Exposing the fallacy of Spain’s “full democracy”

Every year numerous media outlets report on indices such as those published by The Economist, which rank Spain as a “full democracy”, scoring higher than countries like France and Belgium. …

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