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Carles Puigdemont apparently surreptitiously entered the parliament on Thursday afternoon (Photo: Eric Maurice/Twitter)

Tajani urged to allow Catalan MEPs into parliament

Catalan separatists and left-wing lawmakers on Tuesday (4 June) called on the European Parliament president Antonio Tajani to "defend the political rights" of newly-elected MEPs from Catalonia.

In a letter addressed to Tajani and his 14 vice-presidents, the 76 deputies of the 135-seat regional Catalan parliament, said that a recent decision by the parliament to prevent the two MEPs accrediting themselves in the EP sets "a flagrant and dangerous violation of MEPs political rights and the...

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