War of interpretations between the Government and the PP on the Venice Commission | Spain

The final report of the Venice Commission this Friday endorsed the essence and spirit of the amnesty law. But the advisory and non-executive body of the Council of Europe then lists a series of criticisms against the norm approved this Thursday in Congress, such as its urgent processing or the extension of the temporal scope … Read more

Political day of March 13, 2024 | Aragonès: “The parties that have caused these Budgets to not come out must assume their responsibility” | Spain

Aragonès: “The parties that have caused these budgets to fail must assume their responsibility” The acting president of the Generalitat of Catalonia, Pere Aragonès, has assured that he has been negotiating with all the Catalan political groups to move forward with the Budgets, which were finally not approved this morning in the absence of a … Read more

Reynders demands “political will” from the PP and the Government to unblock the Judiciary: “It is difficult, but it is possible” | Spain

The deck has not been broken. The European Commissioner for Justice, Didier Reynders, has summoned the Government and the PP to a new meeting in Madrid before the end of March to try to unblock the renewal of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ), which the Popular Party has kept stalled for some time. … Read more

The Government approves the law that replaces single-person courts with lower courts | Spain

This Tuesday, the Council of Ministers approved the organizational efficiency bill, the third pillar of the transformation plan for the Administration of Justice on which the Government has been working since the last legislature. The electoral advance of July 23 left the so-called efficiency laws in limbo and the Executive chose to approve almost in … Read more

The Government approves the law that replaces single-person courts with lower courts | Spain

This Tuesday, the Council of Ministers approved the organizational efficiency bill, the third pillar of the transformation plan for the Administration of Justice on which the Government has been working since the last legislature. The electoral advance of July 23 left the so-called efficiency laws in limbo and the Executive chose to approve almost in … Read more

The Government spends a year creating the state anti-corruption office that it wants to take outside of Madrid | Spain

Corruption has returned to the agenda and the political dispute these days with the Koldo case and one of the instruments planned to combat it, the law approved just a year ago to regulate the protection of people who report these types of infractions and the creation of a state office with independent authority to … Read more

A meeting in Switzerland put the pact launched by the legislature on track | Spain

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

A meeting in Switzerland put the pact launched by the legislature on track | Spain

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