Trial focus: ‘It’s Oriol Junqueras’s moment’
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,...
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Trial focus: ‘popular prosecution has no equivalent elsewhere in EU’
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...
Government celebrates failure of ‘rage of the right’
The Spanish government has celebrated the ‘failure’ of Sunday’s rally against its Catalonia policy in Madrid, according to executive sources. For them, the low number of...
Spain’s right and far-right unite at Madrid rally
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’
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...
Catalan trial focus: ‘In the end, they are judging all of us’
With vigils and concerts outside prisons, Catalan independence supporters for months have shown their backing for 12 leaders who go on trial on Tuesday over...
Catalan trial: controversy over ‘rebellion’ and violence
The trial of 12 Catalan pro-independence leaders involved in a bid to secede from Spain that plunged the country into crisis starts on Tuesday under...
One dead, four injured in train collision
A train driver died and four people were seriously injured in Catalonia on Friday when two trains collided head-on outside Barcelona, the rail company and...
Madrid, Catalans accuse each other of ‘stalled’ talks
Spain’s socialist government and the Catalan pro-independence parties have accused each other of breaking off negotiations aimed at easing the secession crisis. The mutual accusations...
Sánchez a ‘felon, illegitimate, traitor’ for Catalan ‘rapporteur’
Spain’s prime minister has been called a ‘felon,’ ‘illegitimate’, ‘traitor’ and ‘compulsive liar’ by the opposition head Pablo Casado after the government’s concession to Catalan pro-independence parties....
