The Court considers it appropriate that the default interest rate should be based on the marginal lending rate of the European Central Bank, to which should be added three percentage points

Speaking about the police operation against the newspaper Euskaldunon Egunkaria , he added that the King was in charge of those who had tortured the persons detained in connection with the operation.

For reasons unknown to the Court, it was not physically added to her medical file at Soria hospital. 14.

The Government added that in the present case all three members of the court had been of Catalan origin, spoke and understood Catalan perfectly, and had made oral interventions during the hearing.

   In the early morning of 26 May 1989 Mr van der Tang was arrested by the police (Guardia Civil) in Bayona, Galicia, on the north-west coast of Spain.