6,000 expected to travel to Strasbourg for EU Parliament protest
Around 6,000 people are expected to travel to Strasbourg for a protest on Tuesday 2 July, to coincide with the first plenary session of the new...
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Supreme Court initiates proceedings to ask EU court about Junqueras immunity
The Spanish Supreme Court has opened the door to asking the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) whether Oriol Junqueras, one of the jailed...
Tajani: ‘It’s Spain’s problem’ that MEP seats not filled
Antonio Tajani, the president of the European Parliament, has said that ‘it is Spain’s problem’ that some of their seats have been not been filled after...
All Spanish MEPs able to take oath in Madrid … except three
The 54 MEPs-elect in Spain were summoned to take the constitutional oath on Monday in the Spanish Congress in Madrid, a step made compulsory by...
Supreme Court maintains arrest warrants for Puigdemont, Comín
Following their election as MEPs, the defence teams of exiled former Catalan president, Carles Puigdemont, and his former health minister, Toni Comín, called on the...
Court bars Oriol Junqueras from taking up seat as MEP
Spain’s Supreme Court has denied the jailed pro-independence leader Oriol Junqueras permission to leave prison in order to take the necessary steps in Madrid that...
EU Parliament VPs ask Tajani to clarify Puigdemont access
Three of the 14 European Parliament vice presidents have questioned the decision to deny access to the chamber of former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont, who...
76 Catalan MPs protest EU Parliament’s ‘arbitrary’ accreditation
Catalan Parliament representatives of the three pro-independence parties Junts per Catalunya (JxCat), Esquerra Republicana (ERC) and CUP – as well as the Catalunya en Comú party – have all...
Update: Puigdemont files complaint against EU Parliament
The former Catalan president and now MEP-elect, Carles Puigdemont, has filed a formal complaint to the president of the European Parliament, Antonio Tajani, and the...
Junqueras: ‘They’ve suspended us in Spain, but won’t be able to in EU’
On the eve of the EU elections and municipal elections in Spain, the decision by the committee of the Spanish Congress on Friday to suspend...
