The majority of the European media do not report objectively, but rather uncritically and biasedly about the conflict between Spain and Catalonia. The news from the Spanish press and the Spanish Central Government are mostly taken over uncritically and unchecked.
Anyone who follows the current European reporting on Belarus and remembers the reporting on Catalonia since 1 October 2017 will easily come to the conclusion that double standards are being applied and that the Spanish Government is not being accused of what the Belarusian Government is being accused of. The Catalan President Carles Puigdemont, who was illegally deposed by Spain and who now represents Catalonia in the European Parliament, recently pointed out this contradiction to President David Sassoli on Twitter. Anyone who remains silent on the serious human rights violations in Spain will lose credibility denouncing similar human rights violations in other countries outside the European Union.
Recently, a new programme freely available on the Internet has made it possible to translate Catalan texts into English and English texts into Catalan in very good quality. The «neural translation program» from Softcatalà makes it possible:
https://www.softcatala.org/traductor-angles-catala/
This means that Catalan news on the Internet is finally accessible to the English-speaking public. Those who want to try it should specially have a look at the following pages:
https://www.vilaweb.cat — a very good quality Catalan news agency, which offers high quality journalism and always does excellent research.
https://www.ccma.cat/tv3 — a Catalan television programme that also takes into account the Catalan perspective.
https://www.omnium.cat/ca —- the website of the great Catalan cultural movement Òmnium Cultural, whose president is a political prisoner in Spain.
https://assemblea.cat — the website of the Assemblea Nacional Catalana, a mass movement that defends the Catalan Republic.
https://www.elnacional.cat — news from a Catalan perspective.
The number of untruths and lies spread in European media about Catalonia since October 2017 is extremely high. With Softcatalà and possibly also www.deepL.com — by the way, the programme translates very well from Spanish into English —, everyone can now form their own opinion of the extent to which European media are spreading untruths about the Catalan conflict and consistently turning a blind eye to serious human rights violations within a state of the European Union.
If you like, you can try the following article:
For Europe, however, the sad observation still applies:
Europe remains silent and is only watching!