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Court of Auditors grants amnesty to Puigdemont and 34 others over independence campaign spending

News Desk14th October 202614th October 2026

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Spain’s Court of Auditors has applied the controversial amnesty law to former Catalan presidents Carles Puigdemont and Artur Mas and dozens of other former officials, extinguishing their...

Puigdemont cleared to return to Spain as judge lifts arrest warrant after amnesty ruling

News Desk6th October 202618th October 2026

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Spain’s Supreme Court has lifted the national arrest warrant against former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont, opening the way for his return from Belgium after the...

Spanish Supreme Court refuses to grant Puigdemont amnesty despite EU court ruling

News Desk15th September 202621st September 2026

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Spain’s Supreme Court has again refused to apply the country’s controversial amnesty law to former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont over the alleged misuse of public funds...

Yolanda Díaz ‘looks for democratic solutions via dialogue’ with Puigdemont in Brussels

News Desk4th September 202315th September 2023

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Spain’s acting deputy prime minister and labour minister, Yolanda Díaz, who is also the head of the left-wing Sumar group of parties, went to Brussels...

Spain’s Constitutional Court rejects hearing Puigdemont’s appeal against arrest warrant

News Desk11th August 202322nd August 2023

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Spain’s Constitutional Court has rejected hearing an appeal lodged by the former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont and ex-health minister Toni Comín against the warrants for...

Spain’s public prosecutor requests new EU arrest warrant for Carles Puigdemont

News Desk25th July 20231st August 2023

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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...

Puigdemont claims PSOE offered him a pardon in exchange for surrendering to Spanish justice

News Desk6th July 202314th July 2023

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Former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont has revealed in a radio interview with Catalan station RAC1 that ‘people from the PSOE’, the socialist party led by...

Supreme Court maintains misuse of funds & disobedience charges against Puigdemont

News Desk21st March 202328th March 2023

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Spain’s Supreme Court has upheld its decision to indict former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont for the crimes of misuse of public funds and disobedience. The...

Spain drops sedition charge against former Catalan president Puigdemont

News Desk12th January 202319th January 2023

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A Spanish judge has dropped sedition charges against former Catalan President Carles Puigdemont for his role in the region’s illegal secession push in 2017 that...

EU court restores immunity for Puigdemont, Ponsatí & Comín

News Desk26th May 202230th May 2022

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The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has decided to provisionally restore the parliamentary immunity of three Catalan pro-independence MEPs who fled Spain fearing arrest over...

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