The agreement on the amnesty law reached this week between the PSOE and the Catalan independence parties has caught the president, Pere Aragonès, in the midst of negotiations to approve the accounts of the Generalitat, in his last year of legislature. At the head of a Government in a minority in the Parliament, he maintains … Read more
The political agreement for the approval of the amnesty law has aroused mixed feelings among some of the people investigated or tried by the process Catalan independence movement. The beneficiaries of this exceptional measure move between the hope of leaving their judicial problems behind and the skepticism generated by the foreseeable resistance that its application … 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
Two years later, Félix Bolaños, Minister of the Presidency, Justice and Relations with the Courts, appeared this Tuesday before the Constitutional Commission of the Senate to explain the general lines of his department. He has done so at his own request, and in a week in which the PSOE and Junts are about to agree … Read more
After an intense month of negotiations, PSOE, ERC and Junts have closed the agreement on the amnesty law that consolidates the legislature and opens the door to the Budgets. The three groups announced this Wednesday an agreement for an amendment that will once again modify the rule that is being voted on this Thursday in … Read more