Minister slams 'biased' EU mission on Catalan language immersion policy
Fact-finding visit to evaluate system is facing strong criticism
Fact-finding visit to evaluate system is facing strong criticism
Vote on making Catalan, Basque and Galician official EU languages pulled after concerns from several member states
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Request made over a year ago after deal between Catalan and Spanish governments
Far from certain that former president will be handed over to Spain as Belgium has rejected all previous European arrest warrants for Catalan leaders
Calls for jailed leader's "immediate" freedom following ECJ ruling, while unionist insist he is still a "criminal"
Thursday sees the European Court of Justice rule on whether the jailed independence leader has the right to take up his seat in the EU chamber
Ex-Catalan officials elected in the EU election denied access until they are "effectively registered" as MEPs
Alfred Bosch asks how Brussels can be "so strict with those applying to enter the Union, and not so strict with member states"
Spain will have “last say” in whether former Catalan president can be confirmed as MEP, according to European sources
The Catalan flamenco fusion artist won the Music Moves Europe Talent Awards in the RnR/Urban category
As Ernest Maragall hands over to Alfred Bosch, his department will launch plan to recover Catalonia's lost influence in EU
Spain closed more than a hundred websites in the run-up to the independence referendum
Two Catalan researchers, Gemma Galdon and Isabel Trillas were amongst the finalists at EU Prize for Women Innovators 2017, an initiative promoted by the European Commission's Directorate General for Research and Innovation together with the European Parliament's Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality. Galdon is a policy analyst working on the social, ethical and legal impacts of data-intensive technologies while Trillas is full Professor at the Faculty of Biology at Universitat de Barcelona and developed a pesticide based on a natural microorganism to control crop diseases. The ceremony, held on Women’s International Day at the European Parliament, awarded four European researchers for their outstanding contribution. They were Michela Magas, Petra Wadström, Claudia Gärtner and Kristina Tsvetanova.