Overview
- Advocate General Dean Spielmann says the law does not harm EU financial interests or breach the bloc’s anti‑terrorism directive in the cases reviewed.
- He warns that the two‑month deadline to close cases, limits on who must be heard, and orders to lift precautionary measures risk violating effective judicial protection and judicial independence.
- The opinion is non‑binding but influential, with a Court of Justice judgment expected in the coming weeks or months.
- The Spanish government hails a political vindication and urges application to figures such as Carles Puigdemont, while the PP highlights the cautions over judicial safeguards.
- The conclusions suggest the CDR defendants should be amnestied and reject a direct EU‑budget link in the Tribunal de Cuentas case, but they do not address the Supreme Court’s stance on malversation, leaving outcomes to ongoing national proceedings including the Constitutional Court.