Catalan independence yesterday entered a brand new part of open battle with Europe in response to the indifference with which the neighborhood establishments have reacted to the arrest and launch of MEP Clara Ponsatí (Junts) on Tuesday in Barcelona, the place she traveled to shock after greater than 5 years overseas, a go to throughout which she was delivered to testify for her position within the 1-O.
Catalan independence yesterday entered a brand new part of open battle with Europe in response to the indifference with which the neighborhood establishments have reacted to the arrest and launch of MEP Clara Ponsatí (Junts) on Tuesday in Barcelona, the place she traveled to shock after greater than 5 years overseas, a go to throughout which she was delivered to testify for her position within the 1-O.
"Neither the Council, nor the European Fee, nor the presidency of the European Parliament reacted and even much less did they ask for my launch, because the event required", criticized the MEP from Junts, already again in Brussels, on the opening of the plenary session of the Eurochamber. Ponsatí charged the European Union generally for being, he stated, "a membership of states" that shield one another as a substitute of defending their residents however had notably harsh phrases for the Speaker of the Chamber, Roberta Metsola (PPE), to tolerate the "flagrant violation" of her parliamentary immunity when she was arrested and requested for defense.
"I didn't obtain any response from him and so far as I do know he has not taken any motion besides, as he has simply introduced, to move the case to the Authorized Affairs Committee" of the Parliament, an exit that he described as "bureaucratic" and that it isn't as much as what they requested of it, a closed and speedy protection of its rights as a parliamentarian. "I'm wondering if this failure to adjust to an unlawful arrest of an MEP, which has by no means occurred earlier than, is a response to a coverage of the presidency, or is it an angle that's reserved for us, the Catalans?" throw Ponsatí
The accusations of the Catalan MEP, repeated by Diana Riba (ERC), didn't go down properly with Metsola. "I assume you did not hear my announcement at the start of the session," he advised them. The Eurochamber will, in impact, assess whether or not Ponsatí's immunity was violated by being arrested in Spain. However the path chosen shouldn't be what Carles Puigdemont and his colleagues had been asking for. Metsola has responded to Ponsatí's request following the extraordinary process, article 9 of the regulation, as a substitute of 8, the one offered for pressing conditions and which, if it had been used, would have led him to request an pressing authorized opinion and to pronounce instantly on the case.
It was the authorized service of the Eurochamber who suggested the president to go for this route. "The urgency disappears from the second the choose lets her go and even go away the nation", parliamentary sources level out. The truth that Ponsatí was launched, that she will be able to journey freely and that the occasions she is accused of occurred earlier than 2019 are among the components which have been taken into consideration within the response to the arrest of the ex-counselor, add different parliamentary sources, who word that "immunities are a sophisticated matter" and "fluctuate relying on the Member State".
Ponsatí's preliminary intervention, after an occasion commemorating the twenty fifth anniversary of the Good Friday agreements that introduced peace to Northern Eire, led different Catalan MPs to react. "You assume that that is the Parliament of Catalonia, the place they do what they need, however that is the European Parliament and right here democracy is defended in opposition to those that trample on it, right here everyone knows that you're fugitives from justice". reacted Dolors Monserrat (PP). "It is sufficient of a lot secessionist theater, of electoral numbers yesterday in Barcelona, of promoting ourselves as victims".
Jordi Cañas (C's) requested to talk to assist the choice taken by Metsola and to ask him to keep away from political debates "opposite" to the ideas that they had simply defended within the act on peace in Northern Eire. "I would really like this chamber not for use to make a political present that I believe at a time like this, after talking what we've got spoken, degrades and doesn't swimsuit" the establishment. He closed the impromptu debate, with Ursula von der Leyen (Fee) and Charles Michel (European Council) current within the chamber, Riba, who requested Metsola to defend Ponsati and ask Spain to "as soon as and for all comply the European legality and deserted 'Judicial Brexit' by which it has settled".
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