Catalonia – The Corner https://thecorner.eu Business News & Financial News | Spain & Europe Thu, 30 May 2024 08:08:59 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.6.2 Amnesty negotiated by Sánchez with prosecuted Catalan pro-independence supporters to obtain their votes and become president to be approved today https://thecorner.eu/news-spain/the-amnesty-that-sanchez-negotiated-with-the-prosecuted-catalan-pro-independence-supporters-in-order-to-obtain-their-votes-and-become-president-of-the-government-will-be-approved-today/114837/ Thu, 30 May 2024 07:04:01 +0000 https://thecorner.eu/?p=114837 The Corner

Today, the Congress of Deputies is expected to approve the amnesty that Pedro Sánchez had branded as “unconstitutional” but which he finally negotiated with Carles Puigdemont to obtain in exchange the seven votes of Junts that he needed to be able to go to the presidential investiture after losing the elections on 23 July 2023. It is very possible that any of the judges who are forced to apply it...

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Puigdemont wants to go for investiture in Catalonia and replicate model by which Sánchez governs Spain after losing elections https://thecorner.eu/news-spain/spanish-politics/puigdemont-wants-to-run-for-investiture-in-catalonia-and-replicate-the-model-of-sanchez-who-governs-spain-after-losing-the-elections/114573/ Tue, 14 May 2024 07:20:20 +0000 https://thecorner.eu/?p=114573 The Corner

Despite the poor results of the pro-independence parties, far short of an absolute majority in Parliament, Junts believes it has a chance of governing. If this Sunday, former president Carles Puigdemont already suggested that he would make Pedro Sánchez’s dependence on JxCat’s seven deputies in Congress count, this Monday he has gone a step further and announced that he will try to opt for the investiture. “I can articulate a...

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Socialists win elections in Catalonia, pro-independence parties fail to add up… A difficult victory to manage https://thecorner.eu/news-spain/spanish-politics/the-socialists-win-the-elections-in-catalonia-and-the-independentistas-do-not-add-up/114550/ Sun, 12 May 2024 22:02:40 +0000 https://thecorner.eu/?p=114550 The Corner

Salvador Illa, the candidate of the Socialist Party of Catalonia (PSC), with 27.9% of the vote and 42 seats, has won the elections in Catalonia. Carles Puigdemont and Junts obtained 21.5% of the votes and 35 seats, but their great partner in the “procés”, Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (ERC), which until now had been in charge of the government of the Generalitat, has suffered a debacle and has been left...

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Dual-use votes in Catalonia https://thecorner.eu/news-spain/spanish-politics/dual-use-votes-in-catalonia/110662/ Mon, 28 Aug 2023 07:53:31 +0000 https://thecorner.eu/?p=110662 The Corner

Fernando González Urbaneja | The “alcaldada” of the Congress that must be approved this Monday to allow ERC and Junts to form their own parliamentary group, with the economic and parliamentary advantages it entails, will use on this occasion a cruder formula than the previous ones. On other occasions, the number of deputies of the pretender was completed in order to reach the number of deputies foreseen in the regulations...

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After eliminating the crime of sedition, the PSOE agrees with ERC to leave the embezzlement of pro-independence supporters unpunished https://thecorner.eu/news-spain/spanish-politics/after-eliminating-the-crime-of-sedition-the-psoe-agrees-with-erc-to-leave-the-embezzlement-of-pro-independence-supporters-unpunished/103797/ Tue, 13 Dec 2022 08:50:19 +0000 https://thecorner.eu/?p=103797 The Corner

The reform of embezzlement agreed on Monday between the PSOE and ERC leaves a way open for some pro-independence leaders to avoid prison. Specifically, around 30 defendants accused of the pro-Crime, still awaiting trial, could avoid prison with the new text. These are the group of ex-officials and businessmen close to pro-independence supporters prosecuted by the 13th Court of Instruction of Barcelona for the preparations for the illegal referendum of...

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Espionage By The CNI And The Dealings Between Catalan Nationalists And Putin’s Collaborators https://thecorner.eu/news-spain/spanish-politics/espionage-by-the-cni-and-the-dealings-between-catalan-nationalists-and-putins-collaborators/101597/ Mon, 09 May 2022 08:42:09 +0000 https://thecorner.eu/?p=101597 The Corner

Luis Alcaide | Espionage and misunderstandings between Catalan supporters of Esquerra and Spanish supporters of the PSOE. The Spanish state, like any other, is doing its duty in the face of possible aggressions against its integrity and the liberty of its citizens. The director of the CNI, Paz Esteban, explains herself in the Congress of Deputies. The pro-independence parties and the most left-wing leftists do not quite accept the arguments...

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