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Spain-France summit in Barcelona met with protests for Catalan independence

News Desk19th January 202326th January 2023

19th January 202326th January 20232471

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez met with French President Emmanuel Macron in Barcelona on Thursday, in a Spain-France summit designed to strengthen relations between the...

Spain drops sedition charge against former Catalan president Puigdemont

News Desk12th January 202319th January 2023

12th January 202319th January 20232488

A Spanish judge has dropped sedition charges against former Catalan President Carles Puigdemont for his role in the region’s illegal secession push in 2017 that...

Spanish MPs vote to reform penal code amid constitutional controversy

News Desk16th December 202221st December 2022

16th December 202221st December 20223341

Spanish MPs voted on Thursday in favour of a controversial criminal code reform that changes the crime of sedition to ‘aggravated public disorder’, in a move...

Spain to update sedition law to become ‘aggravated public disorder’

News Desk13th November 202216th November 2022

13th November 202216th November 20222480

The coalition government of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is introducing a bill to reform the criminal code by updating the offence of ‘sedition’, bringing...

JxCat party vote to quit Catalan coalition government led by ERC

News Desk8th October 202213th October 2022

8th October 202213th October 20222516

Catalonia has found itself in a situation of political uncertainty again after the Junts per Catalunya (JxCat) party decided to pull out of the pro-independence...

Catalan President, Pere Aragonès, sacks his vice-president, Jordi Puigneró

News Desk29th September 20224th October 2022

29th September 20224th October 20222499

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Amid political in-fighting, Catalan independence takes to the streets again for ‘La Diada’

News Desk12th September 202219th September 2022

12th September 202219th September 20222853

While the local police in Barcelona calculated that 150,000 people attended a mass pro-independence rally in the city on Sunday, coinciding with ‘La Diada’ (the...

UN human rights committee says Spain at fault for suspension of Catalan MPs

News Desk31st August 20227th September 2022

31st August 20227th September 20222757

Independent human rights experts working with the United Nations have said that Spain violated the political rights of members of the Catalan government and parliament by...

EU court restores immunity for Puigdemont, Ponsatí & Comín

News Desk26th May 202230th May 2022

26th May 202230th May 20222258

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has decided to provisionally restore the parliamentary immunity of three Catalan pro-independence MEPs who fled Spain fearing arrest over...

‘CatalanGate’: politicians, activists accuse Spain of ‘huge & illegal’ spying

News Desk19th April 202225th April 2022

19th April 202225th April 20223783

Catalan pro-independence politicians and activists have accused Spain of spying on dozens of its leaders’ cell phones with Pegasus spyware, after details came to light...

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