Puigdemont returns to Belgium before Sardinia extradition hearing on 4 Oct
Final update on Sun 26 Sept at 19h. Former Catalan president and MEP Carles Puigdemont, detained by Italian police on his arrival to Sardinia on Thursday evening
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Sánchez and Aragonès resume talks, despite ‘radically different’ views
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez met with the Catalan President Pere Aragonès in Barcelona on Wednesday – at the start of resuming ‘dialogue’ between the two governments on resolving the Catalan
Over 100,000 rally in Barcelona for Catalan independence on the ‘Diada’
Over 100,000 people took to the streets in Barcelona on Saturday afternoon, marking the 10th year in a row that a huge pro-independence rally has
Scottish court dismisses extradition case of Catalan MEP, Clara Ponsatí
A court in Scotland has dropped the extradition case of Clara Ponsatí, a Catalan pro-independence politician wanted by Spain for ‘sedition’, stating it no longer
Puigdemont, Comín and Ponsatí lose immunity again
Former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont, together with two of his former ministers, Toni Comín and Clara Ponsatí, have again lost their parliamentary immunity after the European
Sánchez: there will ‘never’ be an independence referendum for Catalonia
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez insisted on Wednesday that there will not be an independence referendum in Catalonia because his socialist PSOE party ‘will never, ever
Catalan leaders walk free from prison – first reactions
The nine Catalan leaders and activists, jailed for their roles in the October 2017 independence referendum, walked free from prison on Wednesday, following the pardons granted
Pedro Sánchez announces pardons for jailed Catalan leaders
#LATEST update on Tuesday at 14.15h – Spain’s cabinet has unanimously approved the pardons for the nine jailed Catalan politicians and activists, following a four hour
Council of Europe calls on Spain to release jailed Catalan leaders and drop extradition proceedings
The Council of Europe (COE) has officially called on Spain to release Catalonia’s nine jailed pro-independence leaders and withdraw the extradition requests for those who are in
25,000 rally in Madrid against imminent pardons for jailed Catalan leaders
Protestors and politicians gathered in the Plaza de Colón in Madrid on Sunday to rally against the proposed pardons for the jailed Catalan pro-independence leaders. The