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Amnesty law: Constitutional, international and criminal law jurists rule out a clash between the Spanish Penal Code and the European directive | Spain

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

Amnesty law: Constitutional, international and criminal law jurists rule out a clash between the Spanish Penal Code and the European directive | Spain

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 amnesty, a law approved urgently despite the notice of the Venice Commission | Spain

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