Barcelona, Palma, Valencia: worst in EU for cruise ship pollution
Barcelona is the European city that receives the most pollution from large cruise ships in Europe, according to a study of 50 of the most...
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Sánchez rejects meeting Torra to discuss Catalan trial
Acting Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has rejected a meeting with Catalan President Quim Torra to discuss the Catalan independence trial. ‘It is inconceivable for...
Shakira attends Barcelona court over tax fraud charges
Colombian singer Shakira appeared in a local court near Barcelona on Thursday to answer charges of tax fraud amounting to 14.5m euros. Prosecutors accuse the...
EU Parliament VPs ask Tajani to clarify Puigdemont access
Three of the 14 European Parliament vice presidents have questioned the decision to deny access to the chamber of former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont, who...
Quim Torra requests ‘urgent meeting’ with Pedro Sánchez
Catalan President Quim Torra has requested an ‘urgent meeting’ with acting Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez to discuss developments in the closing stages of the Catalan Trial,...
Catalan Trial: how might the defence try to refute the charges?
Spain’s public prosecutor is requesting prison sentences totalling 177 years for the 12 Catalan pro-independence politicians and activists in the dock at the Supreme Court,...
Miley Cyrus grabbed and forcibly kissed by fan in Barcelona
Singer Miley Cyrus has spoken out online about the importance of sexual consent after footage emerged of a stranger appearing to assault her in Barcelona....
Catalan Trial: Day 50 – prosecution summaries
Spain’s Public Prosecutor called the 2017 Catalan independence push “a coup d’état” during the closing arguments on Tuesday – at the Supreme Court trial of...
76 Catalan MPs protest EU Parliament’s ‘arbitrary’ accreditation
Catalan Parliament representatives of the three pro-independence parties Junts per Catalunya (JxCat), Esquerra Republicana (ERC) and CUP – as well as the Catalunya en Comú party – have all...
Supreme Court provisionally suspends Franco’s exhumation
Spain’s Supreme Court has unanimously decided to provisionally suspend the exhumation of the remains of the dictator Francisco Franco, which was to be carried out...
