Clash over Catalonia in election TV debate
The Catalonia crisis and independence was at the centre of the Spanish election’s first televised debate, on the public TVE channel on Monday evening. No Catalan...
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Andalusian village ‘executes’ figure of Carles Puigdemont
Citizens in Coripe, a tiny village in Andalusia, ‘executed’ an effigy of former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont on Sunday, as part of their Easter parade...
Catalan issue continues to set General Election agenda
With two TV election debates on Monday and Tuesday this week, Catalonia continues to be a major issue for all parties running in the Spanish general election,...
Political tension ahead of TV electoral debates
The president of Spain’s People’s Party (PP), Pablo Casado, has said that the Spanish prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, ‘is only right when he amends’ previous decisions,...
Oriol Junqueras holds press conference from prison
The leader of the Esquerra Republicana (ERC) party, Oriol Junqueras, has held a press conference from prison for the first time since his imprisonment in...
Jordi Sànchez: ‘Nothing we’ve seen in our trial justifies prison’
The main candidate in the forthcoming elections for the pro-independence Junts per Catalunya (JxCat) candidacy, Jordi Sànchez, one of the defendants in the on-going Catalan trial, has...
Catalan Trial: Day 33 summary
Day 33 of the Catalan trial at the Supreme Court in Madrid saw several more Spanish National Police officers giving their testimonies. They all answered questions about...
PP candidate: ‘Do you really say yes, yes, yes until the end?’
The People’s Party (PP) candidate in Catalonia, Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo, sparked a controversy with her comments on sexual consent during a Spanish TV election debate....
NGO ship released for aid mission but not refugee rescue
The NGO ship Open Arms has received permission to leave Barcelona, where it had been forbidden to set sail from the port for more than...
Catalan Trial: Day 32 summary
On day 32 of the Catalan trial at the Supreme Court in Madrid, more Spanish National Police officers began testifying from 10am. Catalan Trial: click...
