President to give talk on self-determination in Lisbon on Friday

President Quim Torra will go to Portugal this Friday to give a talk on Catalonia's self-determination at the invitation of a university institution in the capital, Lisbon.

'Catalonia and the right to self-determination: an international perspective' is the name of the talk that the president will give in English at the ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon (IUL).

After the talk planned for Friday afternoon, the president will then take part in a debate with Portuguese political experts on the current situation in Catalonia and Spain.

Taking part will be historian and former vice president of the European Parliament, José Pachecho Pereira, and ISCTE political researcher and author of the book, Espanha e Catalunha. Choque de nacionalismos, Felipe Vasconcelos Romão.

The debate will be moderated by professor and ISCTE-IUL researcher, André Freire.

Ciutadans complains again about yellow ribbons

Meanwhile, Torra will be the object of another complaint from the Ciutadans (Cs) party for failing to remove a yellow ribbon symbol from an interior patio in the government HQ.