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Media groups uncover alleged illegal investigation of Catalan independence groups by Spanish government led by Rajoy

News Desk16th January 202424th January 2024

16th January 202424th January 2024951

A recent inquiry conducted by Spanish media outlets La Vanguardia, El Diario and El Nacional has exposed the alleged illegal use of the country’s national police

Rally against Catalan amnesty, ahead of Feijóo facing ‘doomed’ investiture vote

News Desk24th September 202327th September 2023

24th September 202327th September 20231494

Tens of thousands of supporters of Spain’s current opposition right-wing People’s Party (PP), led by Alberto Núñez Feijóo, rallied in Madrid on Sunday against the possible plans

Spain’s opposition leader admits he can’t speak English, ‘but will study it’

News Desk1st June 20239th June 2023

1st June 20239th June 20232207

Alberto Núñez Feijóo, the leader of Spain’s main opposition party, the right-wing People’s Party (PP), whom polls suggest could be Spain’s next prime minister after

Senate approves law that bans support for Franco and seeks to bring ‘justice’ to victims

News Desk6th October 202210th October 2022

6th October 202210th October 20223577

Spain’s Senate house has approved a landmark bill that will ban expressions of support for the former dictator Francisco Franco, and seek to bring ‘justice’ to the victims

All Spain’s regional presidents attend conference – except Quim Torra

News Desk2nd August 20208th August 2020

2nd August 20208th August 20203063

The 21st Conference of Regional Presidents of Spain was held in situ in the town of San Millán de la Cogolla (La Rioja) on Friday –

ECHR rules Spain did not violate Human Rights with immediate deportations

News Desk16th February 20208th March 2020

16th February 20208th March 20202064

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled on Thursday that Spain did not violate the European Convention on Human Rights when it immediately deported two

Trial of former Catalan police chief, Josep Lluís Trapero, starts

News Desk19th January 202020th January 2020

19th January 202020th January 20202609

The trial of Josep Lluís Trapero, former head of the Catalan police (the Mossos d’Esquadra) starts at Spain’s National Court in Madrid on Monday. Trapero is

Pedro Sánchez voted in as PM of Spain’s first ever coalition government

News Desk7th January 202010th January 2020

7th January 202010th January 20202898

Socialist (PSOE) leader Pedro Sánchez has been officially voted in as Spanish Prime Minister on Tuesday, after a second round vote gave him 167 votes

Clara Ponsatí’s lawyers seek to summon Sánchez and Rajoy to Edinburgh court

News Desk12th December 201913th August 2020

12th December 201913th August 20201937

The defence team for Clara Ponsatí, the former Catalan education minister now living in Scotland and fighting extradition to Spain for her role in the 2017 Catalan

Basque Country Opinion Spotlight

Opinion: Will the Basques be next?

Ben Wray9th November 201914th August 2020

9th November 201914th August 20208286

Ask Basques about whether they were shocked by the scale of the police brutality and judicial repression of the Catalan independence movement in recent weeks,

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