Catalan leaders ask to be released after Strasbourg ruling on jailed Kurdish MP
Human Rights court calls on Turkey to end Selahattin Demirtas’ pre-trial detention
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European Court of Human Rights rules Spain violated Basque leader’s right to fair trial
Pro-independence figure Arnaldo Otegi was incarcerated for six and a half years for allegedly following orders of ETA organization
Strasbourg court backs Spain: ETA prison sentences in France should not be deducted
European Court of Human Rights rules against members of Basque terrorist group
Pro-independence group to challenge MPs suspension in Constitutional Court
The Catalan National Assembly aims to take case to UN Human Rights Committee after exhausting legal recourses in Spain
MEPs wear yellow to demand release of Catalan leaders from jail
41 Members of European Parliament from some 15 member states wore yellow T-shirts in the chamber vote
'Abandonment' of minority language by Spain denounced at EU
The Aranese Academy of the Occitan Language delegation said so speaking at the European Parliament
Catalan Ombudsman tells Council of Europe: 'There are political prisoners in Spain'
Rafael Ribó meets Commissioner for Human Rights Dunja Mijatovic to discuss political situation and fundamental rights in Catalonia
EU ‘sometimes’ lacks ‘courage’ to ‘protect infringed rights’, says daughter of jailed leader
Anna Forn places “hope” in European courts to solve issue of deposed officials in prison
Jailed Catalan leaders ‘victims of revenge,’ relatives tell European Parliament
“I married a pacifist and now he is in jail accused of rebellion,” says deposed minister’s wife
Irish Prime Minister calls on Madrid to open dialogue with next Catalan government
Leo Varadkar believes it is “only solution” to ongoing political crisis
Catalan leaders' imprisonment 'unique situation in Europe,' says MEP
Renate Weber, former ad hoc judge for the Human Rights Court, urges Spain to negotiate with pro-independence parties
Imprisonment of Catalan leaders ‘unique situation in Europe,’ says former ad hoc judge for Human Rights court
MEP Renate Weber urges Spain to negotiate with pro-independence parties, stating that judicial means won’t necessarily solve political problems
Dilma Rousseff condemns the imprisonment of Catalan officials as ‘not a good idea’
The former president of Brazil defends the right to self-determination when done ‘with respect to democracy’
The European Parliament urges the Spanish government to reduce “the unacceptable number of evictions”
A wake up call from the European Parliament to the Spanish government regarding the evictions and the ‘preferential shares’ scandal, which offered high rates of return but ended up with thousands of savers unable to recover their money four years ago. MEPs approved this Thursday a resolution which urged Spain to “drastically” reduce “the unacceptable number of evictions” and to “supervise” whether the communitarian legislation in relation to mortgage loans is correctly applied in order to “solve the current problems and prevent abusive practices”. This resolution was approved on the same day that Spain’s Constitutional Court accepted the Spanish government’s appeal to stop the Catalan law which would fine the owners of empty flats and deal with the situations of housing emergency.
Spanish King to the European Parliament: “I’m European because I’m Spanish”
Philip VI, the Spanish Monarch, defended this Wednesday “a united Spain” at Strasbourg’s plenary. “Europe has been built on the basis of adding rather than deducting, of uniting rather than dividing and the ability to share and be supportive” he stated. The EU can count “on a united Spain, which is proud of its diversity” and “respectful of the rule of law”, he emphasised. The Spanish King praised the Constitution and described it as “the great agreement” which “protects the regions in Spain in the exercising of their diverse cultures and traditions, languages, and institutions”. Spanish alternative-left Podemos MEP Pablo Iglesias criticised Philip VI’s role regarding Catalonia’s push for independence and stated that “the king shouldn’t interfere in issues that have to be democratically solved by the citizens”.