All seven CDR activists held on terrorism charges now released on bail
Spain’s National Court in Madrid has now released on bail the remaining two out of seven activists linked to the pro-independence Committees in Defence of the Republic...
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Supreme Court asks EU Parliament to suspend Puigdemont and Comín immunity
Pablo Llarena, the Spanish Supreme Court judge, has now asked the European Parliament to suspend the MEP immunity of Carles Puigdemont and Toni Comín. He is also maintaining...
Supreme Court rejects suspending JEC decision on Torra’s disqualification
Spain’s Supreme Court rejected on Friday to immediately suspend the decision of the country’s Electoral Authority (JEC) ordering that the Catalan president Quim Torra be disqualified from his...
Judge refuses to release Junqueras after family file for ‘Habeas Corpus’
A judge at the local court in Manresa (Barcelona) has refused to release the jailed Catalan independence leader Oriol Junqueras, after the politician’s family filed a petition on...
Supreme Court rules to keep Junqueras in jail, denying MEP immunity
The Spanish Supreme Court has now formally denied Catalan jailed leader Oriol Junqueras parliamentary immunity, and will not free him to receive his accreditation as an...
Supreme Court rejects suspending JEC ruling that prevents Junqueras becoming MEP
The Spanish Supreme Court has rejected suspending the decision of Spain’s Electoral Authority (JEC) that prevents Oriol Junqueras taking up his seat as an MEP. The Catalan pro-independence...
Pedro Sánchez, Quim Torra finally speak – and will meet in coming days
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, officially re-elected on Tuesday, has held a telephone conversation of approximately seven minutes with the Catalan president Quim Torra, and they...
Oriol Junqueras elected president of EFA group in EU Parliament
Oriol Junqueras, the jailed former Catalan vice-president, has been elected president of the European Free Alliance (EFA) group in the European Parliament. Alongside former Catalan president Carles...
Pedro Sánchez voted in as PM of Spain’s first ever coalition government
Socialist (PSOE) leader Pedro Sánchez has been officially voted in as Spanish Prime Minister on Tuesday, after a second round vote gave him 167 votes...
Puigdemont, Junqueras, Comín now officially recognised as MEPs
Former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont, his former jailed vice president Oriol Junqueras, and former minister Toni Comín, have all been officially recognised as MEPs by...
