Semiconductor company to hire 150 high-qualified employees with €12m investment in Catalonia
Automotive, computer, and mobile sectors to benefit amid global shortage of chips
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Call for amnesty in Catalonia backed by over 250 lawmakers in European and American parliaments
Letter sent to Spain’s president demands release of jailed leaders and for charges against pro-independence supporters to be dropped
12 French MPs want 'climate of opinion' to resolve Catalan political conflict
Elected members of France's National Assembly meet parliament speaker Roger Torrent
52 French MPs call for end of ‘repression’ against independence leaders
National Assembly speaker contradicts them and expresses “respect and trust” for Spain’s constitutional framework
Jailed leaders suspended as Spanish MPs
Congress bureau acts on the advice of parliamentary lawyers three days after taking office
Ministers and MPs fast for 24 hours to support jailed leaders on hunger strike
Action also aims to reject Spanish constitution on its 40th anniversary on the grounds that "it blocks exercise of fundamental rights"
Danish MPs to look into joining international observers of independence trial
"If Catalan society calls on us, we will be there," say parliamentarians from Denmark visiting jailed political leaders
Court orders suspension of six jailed and exiled leaders as MPs
Politicians prosecuted for rebellion, including former president Puigdemont, told to give up seats until verdict
Indictment for pro-independence leaders confirmed
This could mean imprisoned officials will be suspended as MPs
“I will never stop denouncing the situation of jailed and exiled MPs,” says Parliament speaker
Torrent responds to the Barcelona Bar Association members who walked out when he criticized the existence of “political prisoners”
Puigdemont does not rule out attending Parliament debate
"I’m working to be there in order to start a debate with the rest of the representatives, in order to start a dialogue with the Spanish authorities," says the Catalan leader
Catalan Parliament opening session underway
Jailed MPs ask to vote by proxy, while pro-independence representatives in Brussels will not take part remotely
British MPs accuse Rajoy of breaching freedom of speech by prosecuting Forcadell
The APPG group on Catalonia, created last March in the British Parliament by MPs from the main parties in Westminster, have sent a letter to Spain’s President, Mariano Rajoy, expressing their “concern” over the prosecution of the Catalan Parliament’s president, Carme Forcadell, who faces court “for simply permitting the debate” on independence in the Chamber. The signers consider it “a clear breach of the fundamental democratic right to free speech” and “urge” the Spanish Government “to drop the prosecution”. Forcadell was brought before the court in December accused of disobedience for allowing the pro-independence roadmap to be put to vote among the Catalan MPs on the 27th of July and will face trial again on Monday for the same case.