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Nearly ten years after the 1 October 2017 referendum, a major step towards ending the judicialisation of the Catalan independence process has been taken. The application of the Amnesty Law to embezzlement offences paves the way for the return of exiled Catalan leaders and marks a new stage in overcoming the legal consequences of the…

Wildfires across Southern Europe are no longer exceptional events: they are becoming a structural feature of our climate reality. This summer, fires affected regions across Europe, including areas that had rarely experienced such events before. Increasingly frequent and severe fires are exposing not only environmental vulnerabilities, but also deep-rooted territorial, economic and governance imbalances. As…

The judgment confirms the law’s compatibility with EU law, but EFA stresses that the amnesty remains incomplete until it is fully implemented  The European Free Alliance (EFA) welcomes today’s ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), confirming that the Amnesty Law for Catalan independence leaders and activists complies with EU law. The judgment marks an…

On the 11th of September, National Day of Catalonia, more than 600.000 people took the streets of Barcelona demanding independence and the right to decide on their own future , as well as the release of all Catalan political leaders and activists facing pre-trial detention since the referendum of October 2017. The demonstration “showed once…

EFA party has increased its number of seats to a record 15 in the Spanish Parliament, bringing EFA member Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (Republican Left of Catalonia) to a historic victory: with six more seats than in last general election in 2016, it is the first time that ERC has come first in a state…