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VilaWeb: Nissan closes its factories in Catalonia and puts 20,000 jobs at risk

May 28, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Over 3,000 people work in the factories of Japanese carmaker, which moves out after 40 years of activity. Read here

VilaWeb: Spain misused European arrest warrant against rapper Valtònyc

March 3, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

EU court rules that Spain should not have used a penal code passed three years after the events he is accused of Read here

Vila Web: Spain’s judicial crackdown on Catalonia’s pro-independence protests: over 600 new indictments in six months

February 24, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Alerta Solidària reports stepped-up repression in the wake of the protests that followed the announcement of the verdict against the leaders of the 2017 independence bid Read here

Vila Web: Tabula rasa or the end of the European Free Alliance (EFA)?

February 13, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Germany’s neo-liberal Greens are already corrupting the centre-left in the EU. Read here

VilaWeb: Puigdemont and Comín withdraw request to join the Greens/EFA group

January 29, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

It was the Greens, not the EFA who do not want them. People will have to learn that beyond the environment the Green Movement, especially in Germany, is neo-liberal and socially conservative. Read here

Vila Web: Human Rights Watch includes Catalonia in its annual report

January 16, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

So, Eu nations, those paragons of justice and democracy, there among the dictatorships. The report highlights the high sentences for ‘non-violent acts’ related to the Catalan referendum Read here

VilaWeb: Catalan president on trial over yellow ribbon

November 18, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

It is tragic to see how the EU, as its liberal-democratic political elite loses its grasp, descends ever further towards fascism. The proceedings at Spanish courts towards Catalan leaders reminds one of the Nazi courts […]