EU's top court upholds Spain's amnesty law for Catalan separatists

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : The amnesty, approved by Spain's parliament in 2024, was part of an agreement between the ruling Socialist Party and Catalan separatist groups that allowed Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez to stay in power in 2023.
46% : A disputed Spanish law granting an amnesty to those involved in Catalonia's separatist drive does not violate European Union rules, the bloc's top court said on Thursday, in a boost to the Spanish government and its Catalan allies.
44% : Ruling may ease tensions between socialists, separatists The ruling may help ease tensions between the ruling Socialists and Catalonia's separatist party Junts, which withdrew its parliamentary support last year, citing the lack of full implementation of the amnesty law as one of the reasons.
44% : The CJEU took issue with one provision of the law, ruling that Spanish courts cannot be compelled to lift financial responsibilities or halt preliminary proceedings within a fixed two-month timeframe, pending broader EU decisions.
43% : "(The court) does not oppose a law, which, in order to reduce institutional and political tensions and facilitate a process of reconciliation, provides for the extinction of criminal liability," said Koen Lenaerts, president of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU).

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