Over the last few years, the European Union has created a "European Justice Area" based on the adoption of measures to advance judicial cooperation in civil and criminal matters.

Tthe countries presented themselves as closed fortresses, protected by the principle of non-interference.

Three years ago, the so-called sovereignty process was unleashed and external attention on the Catalonian political situation has been increasing.

Nationalism and Populism are two issues that have gained general interest in this stage of history, characterized by globalisation.

Politics in polyarchies today seems to pivot around two major trends: on one hand, the establishment Political Parties, and on the other, the anti-system.

How do we explain the resurgence of populism in one country after another? Maybe in terms of common structural conditions or passive diffusion of ideas across contexts?

Since 2016, several political events have been worrying and have shaken the old continent over and over again.

Nationalism as a mass political phenomenon is something quite recent.

A territorial modification, such as the separation of part of the national territory to constitute a new country, entails consequences for the membership of an international organization such as the European Union.

The institution of the European arrest warrant and surrender procedures was created in 2002 by a Framework Decision of the Council in the European Union.

On March 21st, 2018, the Spanish justice issued a European arrest warrant against the president of the Catalonian regional government, Carles Puigdemont.

With all the tension occurring over the Catalonia issue, we waited with baited breath for Carlos Lesmes's discourse, president of the Supreme Court and the General Council of the Judiciary, at the inception of the Judicial Year.

Politics, like property and money, sacred, enjoy a treatment of legal favour that only now is begging to exhibition cracks.