News from El Punt Avui

Call to fund trial observers

ITALY

Mayors rebel against “racist, repressive” law

GERMANY

Centenary of Rosa Luxembourg’s assasination

According to the Linke party, thousands of well-wishers attended the centenary memorial service, for Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, assassinated in 1919 by ultra right-wing extremists. A march of...

GREECE

Chaos as Greek ruling coalition breaks apart

The unlikely union between anti-establishment party Syriza, and the Euro-sceptical right-wing populists of the Greek Independence party is over. Minster of Defense Pammos Kammenos announced his party could...

TELEVISION

Hit TV3 comedy back on the small screen tonight

The most surreal family on Catalan TV screens is back, for a second series, tonight at 10pm. Benvinguts a la família, a series created by Pau Freixas and Ivan Mercadé, was one of the highlights of Catalan...

BREXIT

May makes desperate appeal for her Brexit deal

Theresa May made a last ditch attempt to galvanise deputies of the British Parliament around her Brexit deal, which will be voted upon this week, writing in the newspaper Sunday Express that they must...

In the news

WHAT HAPPENED IN DECEMBER

A year of elections

Protest in Badalona against energy poverty

“It’s not a fire it’s murder” was one of the slogans shouted by 300 protestors in Badalona, according to the local police, who took part in a demonstration to remember the fatalities in an apartment...

Pedro Sánchez’s monologue