The leadership of Junts per Catalunya has demanded this Thursday that the Constitutional Court address the protection appeals of the independence leaders that have been on its desk for a year and resolve them “before going on vacation” following the endorsement of the Amnesty law by the European justice system.
The president of Esquerra Republicana, Oriol Junqueras, has celebrated the endorsement of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) for the Amnesty law. In the words of the republican leader, it is a “great political victory for the independence movement and democrats.” After the European court’s ruling, Junqueras called on the Spanish courts to apply the law “without further delay”: “There are no more excuses. Rights must be restored, exiles must return, and it is necessary for the State to close this chapter after almost 10 years.”
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has endorsed this Thursday the Amnesty law approved by the Congress in 2024 in response to the preliminary questions raised about criminal oblivion by both the Court of Auditors and the National Court, regarding the possibility of amnestying embezzlement crimes, on the one hand, and terrorism, on the other. The CJEU must indicate whether the rule approved by the Congress in 2024 is compatible with the EU legal framework.
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) endorses the amnesty law by considering that it does not affect European interests nor is it contrary to the European directive on terrorism. This was announced in the reading of the ruling of a judgment that comes a year and a half after the Court of Auditors and the National Court submitted the preliminary questions to the court based in Luxembourg.
The United States Mint has already begun producing a new one-dollar coin in gold color featuring the ubiquitous face of President Donald Trump. This was announced by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent through a post on the social network X, in which he explained that the coin commemorates the 250th anniversary of the country’s independence. “With the image of President Trump, it celebrates the strength of American values and the promise of a nation dedicated to preserving freedom for all,” Bessent added.
History is written by the winners, and if there is anyone who doesn’t like to lose, it is Donald Trump.
Let’s avoid the sweats associated with bad news. We already have enough with the Egyptian summer we have to endure. Let’s cool down with an article of measured complacency with the Government. Watch out, do not confuse it with enthusiasm! Experience advises always taking the pill of…
The Catalan business fabric remains very strong and also very complex. For this reason, the organizations that aim to represent it live in a constant tension with interests that do not always align. Their confrontations resemble literary disputes, like those of the…
Division in the extraordinary plenary this Thursday at the Cambra de Comerç de Barcelona, which will experience one of the tensest votes of this last term. The executive committee, the highest governing body of the institution chaired by Josep Santacreu, approved last week an agreement to increase the so-called silver seats from 2 to 10, and now it is the plenary that must decide whether to accept this measure or not. What is at stake is the number of board seats linked to a voluntary financial contribution and that have historically been held by major corporations relevant to the Catalan economy. The pro-independence candidacy Eines de País – which won the 2019 elections and lost the 2023 ones against Santacreu – opposes it, as does the Catalan employers’ association Pimec.
Despite the efforts of the Argentine coach, Lionel Scaloni, to separate the football match from politics, some of the Albiceleste players celebrated the victory against England by displaying a banner that read: The Malvinas are Argentine, a sovereignty claim and a symbolic burden that marked the qualifier.