EU's top court upholds Spain's amnesty law for Catalan separatists
The court said EU law does not block the amnesty, but it rejected a two-month deadline for Spanish courts to end some proceedings.
- On Thursday, the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that Spain's 2024 amnesty law for Catalan separatists does not violate EU regulations, delivering a significant victory for Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez.
- Sanchez passed the measure to secure backing from Catalan separatist parties and remain in power after Spain's inconclusive 2023 election, while aiming to ease regional tensions following Catalonia's failed 2017 secession bid.
- The Luxembourg-based court wrote the law "seeks to reduce institutional and political tensions and to facilitate a scenario for reconciliation." However, judges opposed one aspect regarding the two-month timeline for lifting specific national court proceedings.
- This ruling may facilitate the return of Catalan separatist figurehead Carles Puigdemont, who currently resides in exile in Belgium and led Catalonia during the 2017 independence referendum that sparked the country's worst political crisis in decades.
- Spain's Constitutional Court is expected to rule in the coming months whether the amnesty applies to a separate embezzlement charge against Puigdemont, who continues to face potential arrest in Spain for that allegation.
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He considered that amnestiating those who used alleged public funds to organize the referendum on self-determination does not affect European finances.The ruling benefits former Catalan separatist president Carles Puigdemont, who fled Spain almost nine years ago to avoid being imprisoned.
The controversial amnesty law is compatible with EU law, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled.
The Spanish amnesty law for Catalan supporters of independence is compatible with EU law.
By Pau Mosquera, CNN en Español Two years ago Spain passed the controversial amnesty law to extinguish the criminal responsibility of those who promoted the independence process in Catalonia between 2014 and 2017. The regulation still has not been fully implemented. However, a ruling of the Court of Justice of The Post European justice upholds the Spanish amnesty law and facilitates the return of Puigdemont appeared first on KVIA.
The amnesty for Catalan separatists that Spain adopted in 2024 does not conflict with EU law, the Court of Justice of the EU has ruled. The law was adopted in 2024 by the government of Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, who thus secured the majority needed to govern.
What does the judgment of the EU Court of Justice (EUJ) say about the amnesty law that has been known this Thursday?
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