Every June for years, a rainbow-striped banner celebrating Pride Week had been draped over the long balcony of the magnificent city hall in Valladolid, northern Spain.
Three Green MEPs complain of a biased approach by the chair of the European Parliament's petitions committee, concerning the handling of a session on the use of the Catalan language in Spain.
The Democratic Memory Law passed by Spain’s parliament earlier this month seeks to bring ‘justice, reparation and dignity’ to the victims of the Franco-era civil war and the subsequent dictatorship of 1939-75.