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Parliament’s President to testify before the court on 16 December
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Supreme Court to proceed with case against Parliament’s President for disobedience
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Rally against judicialisation of politics "empowers Catalan institutions" to go ahead, says Catalan Government
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Catalan Supreme Court to proceed with case against Forcadell
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Catalonia’s Public Prosecutor accuses Forcadell of “wrecking Spain”
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Spanish Prosecutor urges to file complaint against Forcadell for disobedience
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Catalan Government and Parliament receive Constitutional Court suspension of pro-independence roadmap
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TC urges to open a criminal case against Catalan Parliament President
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Parliament’s President: “Catalonia will be what its people want to be”
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The EU “will have to stop looking the other way” about Catalonia, says Puigdemont
The Catalan President, Carles Puigdemont, said in an interview with the CNA that the European Union will have to intervene in the Catalan conflict. “At some point, probably not now, the EU will have to stop looking the other way. It will need to recognise that there is a political problem that requires some decisions to be taken” in Brussels, he stressed. Amid growing political tensions between Catalan and Spanish institutions over independence and threats of suspension or even prosecution against the Catalan Parliament President, Carme Forcadell, Puigdemont warned that political problems require “political solutions”. According to the Catalan President, however, it is now “understandable” for the EU to stay away from the Catalan issue and to describe it as an “internal matter”. “They do not want to create a conflict between member states”, he pointed out, adding that this will change in the future if someone asks Brussels to intervene. “Then the EU will not be able to refrain from” answering, he said.
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ANC urges Parliament to call a binding referendum on independence this autumn
The president of the civil society organisation Catalan National Assembly (ANC), Jordi Sánchez, stated on Sunday that the process towards independence has to be completed and a binding referendum needs to be called by the Catalan Parliament this autumn. Otherwise, he admitted, Catalan independence supporters might not achieve their goal. “We either start to complete this process (towards independence) or it will finish us off”, he said, admitting a certain fatigue amongst pro-independence groups. The ANC, together with Omnium Cultural and other civil society organisations in Catalonia, have for many years been organising massive pro-independence demonstrations every 11th of September, the Catalan National Day. In 2013, for example, they made a human chain from the North to the South of the country inspired by the Baltic Way, and in the last two years more than 1.5 million people demonstrated in Barcelona. The ANC is planning a new rally in 2016, this time with five different events across Catalonia.
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Spanish Constitutional Court suspends pro-independence roadmap
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Spain wants to claim criminal liability against Parliament’s President
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