Exiled Catalan MEPs accredited to take up seats

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Two pro-independence Catalan politicians received accreditation to sit as members of the European Parliament after a court ruled that Spain had no right to block them

Former Catalan regional president Carles Puigdemont and his health minister Toni Comin arrived at the parliament in Brussels to collect their badges in front of a crowd of reporters.

Madrid has accused them of sedition for their role in helping organising a banned Catalan independence referendum in 2017.

 

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