Spain’s public prosecutor requests new EU arrest warrant for Carles Puigdemont
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...
Junts per Catalunya (JxCat)
Spain’s right-wing PP win the election, but not a majority, even with far-right Vox
With over 98% of the votes counted, Spain’s right-wing People’s Party (PP) led by Alberto Núñez Feijóo won the biggest share of votes and seats...
Socialist Jaume Collboni becomes the new Barcelona mayor
Jaume Collboni, the Catalan socialist (PSC) candidate for the city of Barcelona in the 28 May local elections, has become the mayor of Spain’s second city, despite...
Former mayor Xavier Trias wins in Barcelona, but can he become mayor again?
Trias per Barcelona, the Catalan pro-independence group of former Barcelona mayor, Xavier Trias, won 11 seats in the city’s council elections on Sunday, ahead of the Catalan Socialists (PSC)...
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 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...
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...
JxCat party vote to quit Catalan coalition government led by ERC
Catalonia has found itself in a situation of political uncertainty again after the Junts per Catalunya (JxCat) party decided to pull out of the pro-independence...
Amid political in-fighting, Catalan independence takes to the streets again for ‘La Diada’
While the local police in Barcelona calculated that 150,000 people attended a mass pro-independence rally in the city on Sunday, coinciding with ‘La Diada’ (the...
