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Spain’s image campaign to counteract ‘baseless attacks’

SiE Newsdesk / AFP / Agencies
The trial starting of 12 Catalan leaders over their role in Catalonia’s failed independence bid will be fought between Madrid and pro-independence supporters in the...

Trial focus: Spanish judiciary also on defensive

AFP
As 12 Catalan independence leaders prepare to go on trial in Madrid, Spain has been forced to defend the independence and impartiality of its courts....

Trial focus: ‘It’s Oriol Junqueras’s moment’

SiE Newsdesk / AFP / Agencies
It’s been a tumultuous few years for Oriol Junqueras, the Catalan professor who became vice-president of a government that tried to break away from Spain,...

Trial focus: ‘popular prosecution has no equivalent elsewhere in EU’

AFP
Far-right Spanish party Vox is on track to get a global soapbox as it takes part in the much-hyped trial of Catalan pro-independence leaders as...

Spain’s right and far-right unite at Madrid rally

SiE Newsdesk / AFP / Agencies
Tens of thousands of people waving Spanish flags joined a rally today in Madrid called by right-wing and far-right parties against Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez...

Ada Colau to EU: trial can affect EU ‘political stability’

SiE Newsdesk / ACN / Catalan News
The Barcelona mayor Ada Colau has warned Brussels that the trial against independence leaders can affect the European Union ‘political stability’. In a letter to Jean-Claude...