Corruption
El Nacional Cat. – Spain: Can former King Juan Carlos be tried for corruption?
Spain’s endemic corruption seems to have no limits. Read here
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EU politics
El Nacional Cat:European Parliament vice-presidents call on Tajani to explain Catalan MEPs-elect decision
Virtually all top positions in the EU institutions are now held by conservative politicians linked to the right-leaning EPP group. Two of these, the EU Parliament’s president, Antonio Tajani (Italy), and its secretary-general, Klaus Welle […]
EU politics
El Nacional CAT – Puigdemont and Comín enter the European Parliament
Puidgedemont has been kissing arses in Brussels for a year and now this farce. Is this the man to lead an independent Catalonia? And why are Catalonians still set on remaining in the EU? Read […]
EU politics
El Nacional Cat.: Puigdemont and Comín stopped by European Parliament from getting credentials as MEPs-elect
Puigdemont has been kissing arses in Brussels for a year now and this is what he receives in return. Like Syriza, the Catalans do not have a Plan B with regard to the EU and […]
EU politics
El Nacional Cat.: Main Spanish parties ask European Parliament to ban Puigdemont from speaking
With Centrists like this, who need populist fascist parties. The EU is arrving at its predestined neo-liberal goal: the end of democracy in Europe. No surprise to see the Social Democrats in the forefront. Read […]
EU politics
El Nacional.Cat: Catalan independence movement, fully mobilized for arrival of Sánchez on Friday
After months in a kind of stand-off, the Catalan independence movement will return to the streets this Friday. The holding of a Spanish cabinet meeting in Barcelona – planned weeks ago – comes at a […]
EU politics
El Nacional Cat – Ponsatí: “The streets will end up forcing the institutions”
The political situation in Catalonia has reached an impasse, which has more to do with the political leadership than the Catalans themselves. This is the danger when independnce is the goal, not a better society […]
EU politics
El Nacional.cat: Strasbourg finds against Spain again over a human rights violation
Nothing new in the Spanish justice system. Read here
EU politics
El Nacional Cat.: Spain withdrew billions of euros from Catalan banks after referendum
The day after the Catalan independence referendum, so on 2nd October 2017, the Spanish state quietly removed the money public companies and authorities held in the two largest Catalan banks, Banc Sabadell and CaixaBank. Read […]
EU politics
El Nacional.Cat – Anwar: “Talking to Spain now is like sitting down with a gangster holding hostages”
“I’ve now become a student of Catalan politics and I have realised that the socialist party is the same side of the coin as Rajoy’s party. One lot are conservatives and the others socialists but […]