Here is the latest top stories from Press TV on June 30, 2021.

Former Catalonia leader says the pardons of jailed Catalan leaders will not guarantee their party's support for Spain’s 2022 budget.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez says his government will pardon the jailed Catalan separatists behind a failed 2017 independence bid.

Catalonia's pro-independence lawmakers have filed an amnesty bill for the region's jailed leaders in the Spanish Congress in an attempt to end the political crisis.

The pro-independence majority in Catalonia's newly elected parliament has picked radical separatist Laura Borras for speaker, paving the way for the election of a new coalition government in two weeks.

Catalonia's pro-independence civil society has taken to the European Commission's Office in Barcelona to protest a vote in the EU parliament to strip three Catalan MEPs of their immunity from prosecution.

“Sad day for European democracy,” that’s how Carles Puigdemont has described a European Parliament vote to lift his immunity and that of two other Catalonian MEP’s wanted by Madrid following a Catalan independence referendum..

The European Parliament lifts the immunity from prosecution of former regional president of Catalonia and two of his government officials over charges of "sedition."

Anti-monarchy activists showed up at the headquarters of Spain's car manufacturer SEAT in the north-west of Barcelona to protest a visit by King Felipe and Prime Prime minister Pedro Sánchez.

Protests against the imprisonment of a Spanish rap artist have turned violent in Barcelona.