Spanish Supreme Court judges on Thursday 9 January refused to allow Catalan separatist Oriol Junqueras to sit in the European Parliament.
The Court considers that it is not necessary to declare null and void the sentence for which Mr Junqueras was sentenced last December to 13 years’ imprisonment for sedition and embezzlement of public funds for having participated in the organisation of the referendum on self-determination (see EUROPE B12348A23). Therefore, the judges consider that...