The chips on the Spanish political board received a new shakeup this Wednesday from Catalonia, and not because of something already volcanic, such as the amnesty law, which is being voted on this Thursday in Congress. In a new unforeseen turn, the president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, called early elections for May 12 after … Read more
Above the legal negotiation on the amnesty law, which was very complicated to close, there was an underlying political decision. Junts had to clarify if it wanted to burst the legislature by forcing the machine with the law beyond where the PSOE could reach. The socialists had set a final red line, after crossing others: … Read more
Above the legal negotiation on the amnesty law, which was very complicated to close, there was an underlying political decision. Junts had to clarify if it wanted to burst the legislature by forcing the machine with the law beyond where the PSOE could reach. The socialists had set a final red line, after crossing others: … Read more
Santos Cerdán and Carles Puigdemont at their meeting at the Junts offices in the European Parliament in Brussels at the end of last October. What wears out the Government the most? Amnesty or Koldo case? There are no univocal or unanimous answers. The strength of the government cabinet will be marked by the development and … Read more
Miguel Ángel Revenga, professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Cádiz, estimates that the reference that has been introduced in the law to the European directive “in no case affects the scope of the Spanish Penal Code to delimit the scope of what is punishable.” Now, he warns that “contrasts and interpretative disagreements between … Read more
The European Parliament is going to request, at the request of the European People’s Party, the appearance of the European Commissioner for Justice, Didier Reynders, before the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (Libe) of the European Parliament to debate the case opened by terrorism in the Spanish Supreme Court against former president … Read more
Miguel Ángel Revenga, professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Cádiz, estimates that the reference that has been introduced in the law to the European directive “in no case affects the scope of the Spanish Penal Code to delimit the scope of what is punishable.” Now, he warns that “contrasts and interpretative disagreements between … Read more
The parties that have negotiated the amnesty law proposal – the PSOE, Junts and ERC – affirm that the latest version of the text, approved this Thursday, includes the recommendations made by the Venice Commission, a consultative body of the Council of Europe whose draft opinion on the law was known last Friday. These new … Read more