Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont, who spearheaded Catalonia’s 2017 bid to break away from Spain, said today he will retire from local politics if he fails to be elected president of the region in May. “I can’t do active politics if I don’t have the responsibility of the presidency (…) It wouldn’t make sense to … Read more
After eleven o’clock this morning, the Mossos d’Esquadra arrested Alex BG, the 27-year-old man of Spanish nationality who also injured the mother last morning and fled from his home in Bellcaire as the alleged murderer of his 5-year-old son. d’Empordà (Girona), a small town of just over 700 inhabitants. The two victims had stab wounds. … Read more
Sumar proposes Estrella Galán, general director of CEAR, as head of the list for the Europeans The general director of the Spanish Commission for Refugee Assistance, Estrella Galán, will be Sumar’s number one in the next European elections, as the party has proposed, elDiario.es has advanced and this newspaper has confirmed. Galán is an expert … Read more
The PP will propose an institutional clash between the Senate and Congress over the processing of the amnesty law, in what is an unprecedented scenario. The latest report from the Senate lawyers doubts that the pardon measure is constitutional, but denies that its parliamentary development can be blocked by the Upper House Table. Also remember … Read more
The PP will propose an institutional clash between the Senate and Congress over the processing of the amnesty law, in what is an unprecedented scenario. The latest report from the Senate lawyers doubts that the pardon measure is constitutional, but denies that its parliamentary development can be blocked by the Upper House Table. Also remember … Read more
The Government of Pere Aragonès wants to control all the taxes paid in Catalonia. Manage and collect them and, later, transfer a part of the resources to the State, similar to the Basque concert but also including resources for a solidarity fund with “communities with less fiscal capacity.” That is the basis of the proposal … Read more
One day after making public the content of the Generalitat’s proposal for Catalonia to have “singular financing” and already in the middle of the electoral pre-campaign, the president Pere Aragonès explained its content this Wednesday in Madrid. The Republican leader also recalled at an informative breakfast organized by Europa Press the good figures of the … Read more
The PP candidacy in Catalonia has been shaken six days after the announcement of the electoral advance. The national leadership faces two complex scenarios: the election of its candidate, under the shadow of an internal conflict, and the negotiation with Ciudadanos to run on a single list on May 12, which has become complicated in … Read more