16/10/2018
Around 15 MEPs of the EU – Catalonia Dialogue Platform have taken part in a protest action in front of the European Parliament the day of the first anniversary of the imprisonment of Jordi Cuixart and Jordi Sànchez, the two presidents of pro-independence civil society organizations who are in pre-trial detention. Current Permanent Delegate of […]
11/10/2018
Representatives of the Basque Country, Catalonia, Scotland, New Caledonia and the Faroe Islands speak in a conference organized by the EU – Catalonia Dialogue Platform While exercising the right to self-determination is denied to nations such as Catalonia or the Basque Country in Spain, it is perfectly feasible in other European Union (EU) states, such […]
03/10/2018
41 Members of the European Parliament wore yellow T-shirts today in the Strasbourg plenary session demanding the release of Catalan pro-independence leaders, who have been in pre-trial imprisonment for almost a year for organizing a referendum on self-determination in Catalonia The MEPS, representatives from 15 different member states and 4 parliamentary groups, wore yellow shirts, […]
27/09/2018
A group of members of the EU – Catalonia Dialogue Platform participated in the campaign “A people imprisoned” that took place outside the EU institutions in Brussels last Tuesday. Pro-independence organizations ANC and Omnium set-up a reproduction of a prison cell in order to focus international attention and highlight the clear democratic deficit of Spain […]
07/09/2018
A delegation of 13 MEPs, 12 of which are members of the EU – Catalonia Dialogue Platform, travelled to Catalonia and visited all nine Catalan political prisoners on Friday 7th of September 2018. The group was formed by Martina Anderson, Lynn Boylan, Lidia Senra, former MEP Josu Juaristi and Marie-Pierre Vieu (GUE/NGL), Izaskun Bilbao, Ramon […]
10/07/2018
On today’s meeting of the EU-Catalonia Dialogue Platform, MEPs have counted with the presence and testimony of three out of the seven exiled Catalan politicians; Meritxell Serret, Toni Comín and Lluís Puig. All of them are exiled in Belgium since the Spanish State is persecuting them due to the organisation of a referendum in Catalonia. […]
03/07/2018
After Brussels, Barcelona and Berlin, EU-Catalonia Dialogue Platform, formed by more than forty MEPs from different groups and countries, has been presented in the National Assembly of France, in Paris. The spokesman of the platform, MEP and former Slovenian Foreign Minister Ivo Vajgl, highlighted that the meeting has been done the same day that some […]
07/06/2018
Here you can read the report MEPs Access to Penitentiary Centres and Inmates in the European Union: country-by-country report and key indicators that the EU-Catalonia Dialogue Platform have elaborated, after the events of December 2017 when seven MEPs of the Platform were denied to access the prison in Estremera (Spain). The report basically concludes that […]
18/05/2018
The platform, composed by 40 MEPs, claim the release of the political Catalan prisoners and the end of the direct rule in Catalonia Today, a delegation of the EU-Catalonia Dialogue Platform has visited Berlin to meet Carles Puigdemont, the Catalan President in exile. The members that have attended to this mission are Lynn Boylan, Bodil […]
17/05/2018
The EU-Catalonia Dialogue Platform, a group of 40 MEPs from 5 different political groups, considers that the election of a new Catalan President, Quim Torra, brings a new opportunity to start dialogue between the Government of Catalonia and the Government of Spain. We welcome Mr Torra’s call for dialogue and the apparent will of President […]