Arrimadas to ‘remind’ Puigdemont ‘republic doesn’t exist’
Inés Arrimadas, the leader of the Ciudadanos (Cs) party in Catalonia (Ciutadans), is to travel to Belgium on Sunday to remind the former Catalan president,...
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Catalan Trial: Day 6 summary
On the sixth day of the trial of the Catalan independence leaders, the former business minister, Santi Vila, said that the 2017 independence referendum became ‘a...
Catalan Trial: Day 5 summary
Spain’s Constitutional Court ‘lacks moral authority’, according to former Catalan minister, Josep Rull, who testified on Wednesday, the fifth day in the trial of Catalan independence...
Catalan Trial: Day 4 summary
Former Catalan minister, Jordi Turull, argued in Spain’s Supreme Court today, the fourth day of the Catalan trial, that the government followed the wishes of...
Mariano Rajoy to testify on 26 Feb in Catalan trial
Spain’s former prime minister Mariano Rajoy, who was in power when Catalonia’s executive tried to secede in 2017, will testify in the high-profile trial of...
Catalan Trial week 2: what to expect
The trial of the Catalan pro-independence leaders enters its second week on Tuesday. After the preliminary questions and the testimonies of two of the prosecuted...
Hundreds of thousands march against Catalan trial
Over 200,000 people marched through Barcelona today against the high-profile trial of Catalan independence leaders that started this week, according to Barcelona’s Guàrdia Urbana police....
EU cancels Puigdemont event citing ‘security threats’
The European Parliament has cancelled an event that was to be attended by former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont, as well as the current president, Quim Torra,...
Pedro Sánchez calls general election for 28 April
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has announced a general election for 28 April – the third in less than four years, after his draft budget was...
Catalan Trial: Day 3 summary
‘I see myself as a political prisoner,’ was how the jailed former Catalan vice president Oriol Junqueras began his testimony in the Supreme Court on Thursday,...
