European Parliament president gets prize from unionist group
The Catalan Civil Society (SCC) frontally rejects the idea that there are political prisoners in Spain, and is strongly opposed to independence
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Catalan civil organizations launch campaign to go international
Topics covered by institutions include Catalan language, law, pacifist movement, mountaineering and scouting, among others
Call for the European Parliament to withdraw the European Citizen 2014 award from 'Societat Civil Catalana'
Many MEPs and different entities urged the European Parliament to withdraw the European Citizen 2014 award from 'Societat Civil Catalana', a Spanish unity association which has been repeatedly linked with extreme right organisations. Recent investigations also connected SCC's president, Josep Ramon Bosch, with Francoist Fascism and Nazism and Bosch himself has been called to Court accused of threatening pro-independence Catalan figures via a fake Facebook profile. The associations, organisations and public figures signing the 'Manifesto: Catalan civil society, for dignity' accuse SCC of "appropriating themselves of the common term ['Societat Civil Catalana'] which refers to the host of civic, cultural and social entities in Catalonia characterised not only by their diversity but also by their defence of democratic principles, Catalan culture and society as a whole".