General Election focus: the JxCat party
The Junts per Catalunya (JxCat) (‘Together for Catalonia’) party led by exiled former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont was forced to forge its own path for the...
Carles Puigdemont
Catalan government files lawsuit against ‘mock execution’
The Catalan government has decided ‘unanimously’ to file a lawsuit against the act held in the southern Spanish town of Coripe during Easter, during which...
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...
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...
Catalan Trial: Day 27 summary
Juan Carlos Molinero, the second-in-command of the Catalan police (the Mossos d’Esquadra) during the 2017 independence referendum, began his testimony in Spain’s Supreme Court on...
Catalan Trial: Day 26 summary
Former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont pledged to declare independence if the 2017 independence referendum led to ‘incidents’, according to Ferran López, the then second-in-command of...
7 arrests, 5 injuries in anti-fascist demo in Barcelona
Police arrested 7 anti-fascist demonstrators on Saturday in Barcelona after some threw stones and eggs at a security cordon that separated them from a far-right...
Puigdemont revisits Neumünster, criticises EU ‘double standards’
Former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont has requested an ‘independent report’ to compare the legal decisions by German and Spanish courts on the Catalan referendum case. He announced...
Catalan Trial: Day 18 summary
Week 6 and the 18th day of the Catalan trial started on Tuesday morning with the testimony of Felipe Martínez, the deputy secretary of the Spanish...
Catalan Trial: Day 16 summary
Day 16 of the independence trial started at 10am with the testimony of Jaume Mestre, the man in charge of the Catalan government’s public information department...
