Opposition politicians in Catalonia who were victims of a spyware scandal linked to the Spanish government have spoken out after their case was dismissed by the European Court of Human Rights. Josep Costa, a former vice president of the Catalan Parliament, told POLITICO he felt "defenseless" after exhausting legal routes in a court case examining how spyware was used against him in 2019. "The biggest and most serious spyware scandal of this century” is being ignored, he said. Costa is one of