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EUROPE

Bundestag may debate Catalan situation

German Bundestag deputy, Andrej Hunko has asserted that his party, Die Linke, will be pushing for a formal debate on the Catalan political prisoners and situation, on the floor of the German parliament....

Transfer dates set for political prisoners

The anguish of not knowing when their loved ones will be sent to Madrid ended yesterday, for the families of the nine Catalan political prisoners, as Magistrate Manual Marchenas, the president of the court...

POINT MADE

Lying to seed fear

Donald Trump is pouring effort into reinforcing the pillars of his campaign for re-election. He’s got to show he has fulfilled promises, and his border wall is what he promised. After the midterm elections...

Sworn in, but isolated

ECONOMY

56,000 ads for flats to be taken down

economy

Unions organize protest against 2012 labour reform

Spain’s largest trade unions (CCOO and UGT) have organized mobilizations for February 8 against the labour reform, announced the UGT’s secretary general, Josep María Álvarez, and CCOO’s secretary...

italy

49 people rescued 15 days ago finally allowed to land

The 49 immigrants who have been waiting to land for more than two weeks after being rescued in the Mediterranean will be set down in Malta. Germany, Portugal, France, Ireland, Romania, Luxembourg, Holland...

Espionage case dismissed

Rodrigo Rato points the finger at Mariano Rajoy

The former president of Bankia, Rodrigo Rato, is blaming the Bank of Spain and the government for Bankia’s bancruptcy again. At his second appearance at the trial at the National Court about Bankia shares...

Badalona councillor on trial