The Catalan independence movement experienced both satisfaction and disappointment this week.
Disappointment from the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), which on Tuesday 28 May declared “inadmissible” the application against the decision of the Spanish Constitutional Court, which suspended the plenary session of the Parliament of the autonomous community of Catalonia on 9 October 2017 (see EUROPE B11880A1). The reason: the ECHR considers that the suspension was “necessary in a...