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Politicians accountability

Taking advantage of the recent cases of corruption in SantaColoma de Gramanet and the former members of Jordi Pujol’s Government , there has been a rise in the already spread discourse against politics and, specially, against politicians.

There are grounds to be suspicious of the behavior of many politicians but that is completely [...]

About the corruption scandals in Catalonia

Catalan politics, which had historically been known as an “oasis” has become been seriously turmoiled by a series of important corruption scandals. First it was the Millet case , with millions of public money ending up in the pockets of the administrator of the Palau de la Música, one of the most popular and [...]

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