"The most dangerous part of the 'procés' is hatred, Hispanophobia and victimism”. The application of the laws is associated with repression. If...
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Javier Cercas, the committed citizen, winner of Planeta prize 2019
I feel neither particularly Spanish nor particularly Catalan; or perhaps I feel both, and of course in my house Catalan and Castilian are spoken, as...
Barcelona High Court unblocked one of the last obstacles to trying the organisers of the ‘procés’.
The Barcelona High Court considers that investigation into the "process" external expenses should be tried together with the case on the preparations...
New coup d’état techniques: the case of Catalonia
Neo-violence adopts novel, subtle, even sophisticated forms, which is why it is difficult to typify it in penal codes that do not incorporate these...
But all this positive baggage of the current Government does not prevent us from considering that this coalition is radically harmful to Spain for...
The Supreme Court warns that the elimination of sedition leaves non-violent secessionist processes unpunished
The court reinterprets the reform of aggravated embezzlement for 1-O and maintains Junqueras' disqualification until 2031. Magistrates believe that...
Harbinger: divide and rule. Separatism and left-wing in Spain.
Symbiosis from the pro-independence perspective, whose aim is to split from the Spanish nation by breaking up its state: divide and rule. The...
Financial Times analyses how Barcelona lost “direction and energy”.
The independence referendum and all the political turmoil it generated, as well as the policies of Mayor Ada Colau, are the ones that take the brunt...
The drama of this society also lies in the refusal of many to accept each other in their plurality. The inability of one part of Catalonia to talk to...
Three keys to understanding the CJEU ruling on Llarena’s Euro-orders
The CJEU points out that a refusal of a European arrest warrant must be exceptional in nature. And here the CJEU introduces the reason for this...