05/03/2019
A delegation of 14 MEPs and MPs from several EU member states was in Madrid on the Thursday 28th of February to attend the trial of Catalan pro-independence leaders. The delegation was composed of a group of MEPs of the EU-Catalonia Dialogue Platform -José Bové (Greens-EFA), Mark Demesmaeker (ECR), María Lidia Senra (GUE/NGL), Jordi Solé […]
12/02/2019
Members of the EU-Catalonia Dialogue Platform have held a press conference in the European Parliament in Strasbourg to denounce the political trial against Catalan political and social leaders, that started today in Madrid. Ivo Vajgl, Ramon Tremosa, António Marinho e Pinto (ALDE), Matt Carthy, Eleonora Forenza, Barbara Spinelli, Marie-Pierre Vieu (GUE/NGL), Indrek Tarand, José Bové, […]
12/02/2019
On the occasion of the beginning of the 1rst October trial, starting this morning in Madrid, in which 12 Catalan leaders will be judged for having organized a self-determination referendum, members of the EU-Catalonia Dialogue Platform have published a joint opinion editorial denouncing this political trial in 8 EU Member States’ newspapers. The op-ed, entitled […]
16/01/2019
A group of MEPs from the EU-Catalonia Dialogue Platform protested on Wednesday during the address of Spain’s Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, in the European Parliament plenary. Martina Anderson (GUE / NGL), Izaskun Bilbao (ALDE), José Bové (Greens- EFA), Matt Carthy (GUE / NGL), Marc Demesmaeker (ECR), Tilly Metz (Greens- EFA), Antonio Marinho Pinto (ALDE), María […]
19/12/2018
This week the EU–Catalonia Dialogue Platform has sent a letter to His Holiness, Pope Francis, asking for his mediation in the Catalan crisis. The letter, signed by the chair of the Dialogue Platform, Mr Ivo Vajgl (ALDE), expresses the deep concern of the Members of the European Parliament that are committed to this Platform, “of […]
14/12/2018
The members of the EU-Catalonia Dialogue Platform have signed a manifesto supporting the former Speaker of the Catalan parliament, Carme Forcadell, calling for her “immediate release”. They are part of the more than 500 MPs and former MPs from 25 different countries that have backed the manifesto, including more than 30 Members of the European […]
04/12/2018
The EU–Catalonia Dialogue Platform, a group of 40 MEPs from 5 different political groups, expresses its solidarity towards the Catalan political prisoners in a hunger strike. Four of the nine Catalan political prisoners are in a hunger strike: Jordi Sànchez and Jordi Turull began on Saturday 1 December, and Joaquim Forn and Josep Rull yesterday […]
03/12/2018
Two MEPs members of the EU – Catalonia Dialogue Platform, Antonio Marinho Pinto (ALDE) and Miroslavs Mitrofanos (Greens/EFA), visited the former speaker of the Catalan Parliament Carme Forcadell, incarcerated in the Mas d’Enric prison, on Monday. “Spain is giving a very bad example to the world. Law can be a source of freedom and justice, […]
27/11/2018
A group of Members of Parliaments from United Kingdom, Denmark, Estonia and Flanders, together with the MEPs from the European Union-Catalonia Dialogue Platform, have established the Parliamentary Network of Friendship Groups of Catalonia. The members, as expressed in the founding manifesto, are “deeply concerned by the repressive response of Spain to the legitimate and democratic […]
09/11/2018
We, the members of the EU-Catalonia Dialogue Platform, want to express our deep concern about the request of the Spain’s prosecutor to demand a total of 177 years in prison for the Catalan pro-independence leaders, who have been in pre-trial jail for more than a year for having organized a referendum on self-determination on October […]