Outcome of 23 July election could raise Catalan independence tensions again
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...
Catalan Independence
Puigdemont claims PSOE offered him a pardon in exchange for surrendering to Spanish justice
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
UPDATED – 29 March at 8am Clara Ponsatí was finally released on Tuesday night at around 11pm, after declaring before a Barcelona judge following her...
Supreme Court maintains misuse of funds & disobedience charges against Puigdemont
Spain’s Supreme Court has upheld its decision to indict former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont for the crimes of misuse of public funds and disobedience. The...
Supreme Court maintains public office ban for 4 Catalan pro-independence leaders
Four Catalan pro-independence leaders will remain banned from holding public office, Spain’s Supreme Court said on Monday, despite a legal reform pushed through by Spain’s...
Spain’s right and far-right parties lead mass protest against Sánchez in Madrid
Thousands protested in Madrid on Saturday against Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s coalition government in a rally held in a key election year that was predominantly...
Spain-France summit in Barcelona met with protests for Catalan independence
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
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
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’
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...
