History repeats itself. Re-elected MEP, Catalan Antoni Comín cannot have his status validated if he does not present himself in Madrid to the Spanish Central Electoral Commission and then appear on the official list of Spanish MEPs. But Carles Puigdemont’s former adviser, who has been exiled in Belgium since 2017, risks being arrested in Spain.
The Catalan independentist suffered the same misfortune in 2019. He gave a press conference in Strasbourg on Monday 15 July, on the last day of...