Resignations intensify crisis in Ciudadanos (Cs) party
Despite a number of high profile resignations in recent days, Spain’s Ciudadanos (Cs) party insists it will not change direction, while its leader Albert Rivera...
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Jailed leaders to start journey back to Catalan prisons
Nine Catalan pro-independence leaders will be transferred back to Catalan prisons by Wednesday after sitting in the dock for four months for the Catalan trial...
Lawyer seeks ‘motion of censure’ against Spain at UN Human Rights Council
Ben Emmerson, the prominent international Human Rights lawyer representing jailed Catalan leaders Oriol Junqueras, Jordi Sànchez and Jordi Cuixart, has made a formal request to refer...
Supreme Court rejects release of jailed leaders
The Spanish Supreme Court has ruled that the nine imprisoned Catalan leaders will have to remain in detention until the verdict is out. It has...
‘Wolf Pack’ verdict overruled: gang receive 15-year sentences
Spain’s Supreme Court has overruled the ‘La Manada’ (wolf pack) case’s controversial verdict, charging five men with rape, not sexual abuse, and increasing their prison...
50 arrests in police raid against drug trafficking in Barcelona
Over 500 officers from the Catalan police (the Mossos d’Esquadra), the local city police, as well as Spain’s National Police took part on Thursday in...
Spain declares Puigdemont’s MEP seat vacant
Three European Parliament seats won in the recent EU election by jailed and exiled Catalan pro-independence leaders are vacant, including that of former president Carles...
Manuel Valls slams Ciudadanos party as ‘dangerous, wrong’
‘Dangerous, wrong’ and linked to ‘reactionary, anti-European’ parties. This is how Manuel Valls described the Ciudadanos (Cs) party on Wednesday, two days after the unionist political...
Tajani: ‘It’s Spain’s problem’ that MEP seats not filled
Antonio Tajani, the president of the European Parliament, has said that ‘it is Spain’s problem’ that some of their seats have been not been filled after...
All Spanish MEPs able to take oath in Madrid … except three
The 54 MEPs-elect in Spain were summoned to take the constitutional oath on Monday in the Spanish Congress in Madrid, a step made compulsory by...
