Ten years on from the ruling on the Catalan statute
<p dir="ltr"><span>On June 28, 2010, Spain’s Constitutional Court issued a long-awaited ruling on Catalonia’s attempts to renew its Statute of Autonomy—the most important set of political principles and laws along with the Spanish constitution.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>The significance of the 1978 constitution and the original statute from 1979, both agreed upon in the wake of a 40-year long dictatorship, went far beyond any legal considerations: it was a political pact.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>Whether, and to what extent, this pact is up for revision has become one of Spain’s most controversial political arguments.</span></p>
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