Catalan Independence Archives

Rally against Catalan amnesty, ahead of Feijóo facing ‘doomed’ investiture vote

News Desk24th September 202327th September 2023

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Tens of thousands of supporters of Spain’s current opposition right-wing People’s Party (PP), led by Alberto Núñez Feijóo, rallied in Madrid on Sunday against the possible plans

Spain must wait to see if EU will accept Catalan, Basque & Galician as official languages

News Desk19th September 202329th September 2023

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Spain’s demand for Catalan, Basque and Galician to become official EU languages faced opposition on Tuesday as the bloc’s member states fear any such move

Puigdemont demands ‘amnesty’ for all independence activists as ‘precondition’ for Sánchez’s investiture

News Desk5th September 202312th September 2023

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The exiled former president of Catalonia, Carles Puigdemont, demanded on Tuesday an amnesty for hundreds of activists facing legal action over a failed 2017 independence

Spanish police arrest four for alleged sabotage of Catalan stage of La Vuelta cycling race

News Desk29th August 20234th September 2023

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The Spanish National Police said on Tuesday that they had arrested four men suspected of plotting to sabotage a stage of the Vuelta a España cycling

Socialist candidate Armengol elected as parliament speaker – seen as step to Sánchez securing re-election

News Desk17th August 202325th August 2023

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Francina Armengol, the candidate proposed by Spain’s PSOE socialist party, was elected by MPs as the parliament’s new speaker on Thursday morning, which has been

Spain’s Constitutional Court rejects hearing Puigdemont’s appeal against arrest warrant

News Desk11th August 202322nd August 2023

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Spain’s Constitutional Court has rejected hearing an appeal lodged by the former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont and ex-health minister Toni Comín against the warrants for

Spain’s public prosecutor requests new EU arrest warrant for Carles Puigdemont

News Desk25th July 20231st August 2023

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See end of report for update. Spain’s public prosecutor has asked the Supreme Court to issue a new European Arrest Warrant for former Catalan president

Outcome of 23 July election could raise Catalan independence tensions again

News Desk14th July 202327th July 2023

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Spain’s right wing, in power under former pemier Mariano Rajoy during Catalonia’s failed 2017 independence bid, is trying to regain ground in the vote-rich region

Puigdemont claims PSOE offered him a pardon in exchange for surrendering to Spanish justice

News Desk6th July 202314th July 2023

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Former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont has revealed in a radio interview with Catalan station RAC1 that ‘people from the PSOE’, the socialist party led by

Catalan MEP Clara Ponsatí released after being detained on returning to Spain

News Desk29th March 20234th April 2023

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UPDATED – 29 March at 8am Clara Ponsatí was finally released on Tuesday night at around 11pm, after declaring before a Barcelona judge following her

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