With elections over, yellow ribbon banner returns
With the local and European elections now over, it has taken less than 24 hours for Catalan president Quim Torra to put back a controversial...
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Quim Torra in court over yellow ribbons controversy
Catalan President Quim Torra appeared in a criminal court in central Barcelona on Wednesday, as part of an investigation into possible civil disobedience over his...
Former speaker declines civil award over Twitter row
The former Catalan Parliament speaker, Núria de Gispert, has declined the Creu de Sant Jordi (Cross of St.Jordi/George) awarded to her last week, due to a...
Catalan president summoned to court over yellow ribbons
The Catalan president, Quim Torra, has been summoned to appear before Spain’s High Court in Catalonia on 15 May over the yellow ribbon controversy. Torra failed...
Puigdemont appeals ban on standing in EU elections
The Junts per Catalunya (JxCat) party is appealing the decision by Spain’s electoral authority (JEC) to bar former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont, and his former ministers...
General Election focus: the Vox party
Spain has its own version of the far-right and the populist turned mainstream, part of a wave that has been surging through Europe: Vox, a...
Catalan government files lawsuit against ‘mock execution’
The Catalan government has decided ‘unanimously’ to file a lawsuit against the act held in the southern Spanish town of Coripe during Easter, during which...
Clash over Catalonia in election TV debate
The Catalonia crisis and independence was at the centre of the Spanish election’s first televised debate, on the public TVE channel on Monday evening. No Catalan...
Andalusian village ‘executes’ figure of Carles Puigdemont
Citizens in Coripe, a tiny village in Andalusia, ‘executed’ an effigy of former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont on Sunday, as part of their Easter parade...
Cs want obligatory school lessons on ‘Spanish Constitution’
The Spanish Constitution should be a new ‘obligatory’ subject in schools, according to the head of Spain’s Cuidadanos (Cs) party, Albert Rivera. ‘We will introduce a...
