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Commission Raises Rule of Law Concerns over Spanish Amnesty Law
- A leaked draft opinion revealed that the European Commission expressed concerns about rule of law issues related to Spain's 2024 amnesty legislation for Catalan separatists.
- The law, adopted last year with ERC and Junts backing, covers offences from 2012 to 2023 related to Catalonia's 2017 independence bid.
- Spain's Supreme Court rejected the law's application by upholding embezzlement charges against Carles Puigdemont, who required the law to support Sánchez's 2023 re-election.
- The Commission described the law as “a self-amnesty” that exchanged immunity for political support, while government spokesperson Pilar Alegría called the opinion positive.
- The Commission's concerns suggest the law risks undermining rule of law standards despite aims for political reconciliation, highlighting calls for more institutional dialogue.
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The report estimates that forgiveness of the leaders of the ‘proceso’ was negotiated with their own “beneficiaries”, which “seems to constitute self-amnesty”
The amnesty law remains in the focus of Brussels and the European Commission questions the rule because it "seems to be self-amnesty", a diagnosis made on the basis of a question referred for a preliminary ruling by the Spanish Court of Auditors before the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU).The letter from the Commission, to which it has acceded 20 minutes, does not question whether the rule goes "against the economic interests" of th…
He argues that the amnesty law does not respond "to an objective of general interest", but appears to be part of a political agreement.
The Community government questions the general interest of the amnesty law in its response to the preliminary rulings that will have to be decided by the EU Court of Justice at the request of the Court of AuditorsThe Constitutional paper on amnesty partially considers the PP's appeal but endorses the bulk of the law The European Commission does not see the financial interests of the European Union affected in the proceedings. It is the main conc…
The amnesty granted by the government to the independents to obtain the investiture of Pedro Sánchez is complicated in the European Union. The European Commission questions it...
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