What happens when the state can freeze your bank accounts almost immediately, but the justice system then leaves your case effectively inactive for 66 months?
Andorra’s housing crisis has reached a new political and legal flashpoint. The Government of Xavier Espot and Demòcrates per Andorra has announced a €6 million rental-aid programme built around a simple promise: households should not spend more than 30% of their income on rent. On paper, it sounds protective.
Andorra presents itself as one of Europe’s safest and wealthiest microstates. But behind that image lies a question this investigation refuses to soften: what happens when the people responsible for saving lives are themselves working inside a system stretched to breaking point?
This investigation examines whether Andorra’s justice system has the structural safeguards required to guarantee genuine judicial independence in one of Europe’s smallest and most interconnected states.
What happens to the right of defence when a lawyer who criticizes a judge, prosecutor, police officer or state expert can be fined, prosecuted, disciplined—or permanently removed from the profession—by that same system?
This documentary podcast examines 18 legal cases connected to Andorran lawyer Emili Campos and asks a difficult question: when does persistent and combative legal defence become a threat to institutional stability, and when does the institutional response risk becoming a mechanism for containing an uncomfortable lawyer?
Can a magistrate with no publicly documented law degree serve as rapporteur in a constitutional case involving privacy, sensitive personal data, and fundamental rights?
An independent investigation by Inglourious Basterds, S.L., based exclusively on court judgments, official regulations, BOPA publications and other public documents, examines one of the most puzzling lines of reasoning found in Andorran administrative justice.
Sean Ambrose McCarthy, aged 83, has spent years separated from his daughters after an institutional intervention that, according to his defence, transformed a temporary protective measure into an almost irreversible family disappearance.
Andorra is moving toward an Association Agreement with the European Union before its citizens have voted. This investigative podcast examines the transfer of regulatory sovereignty, the delayed referendum, the opposition’s warnings, and whether Andorra is importing Europe’s market rules without embracing stronger judicial…
A request intended to verify a possible conflict of interest involving a magistrate triggered an extraordinary chain of obstacles: an alleged verbal refusal to register the application, a formal notice sent by burofax, an administrative rejection, institutional silence, judicial inadmissibility and, finally, an appeal before…