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Sánchez: Franco mausoleum cannot be ‘place of reconciliation’

AFP
Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has ruled out transforming dictator Francisco Franco‘s controversial mausoleum into a place of reconciliation, going against suggestions by an expert commission...

Sánchez: defence of judge is a ‘state matter’

Tim Parfitt / ACN Catalan News
Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has come out in defence of Pablo Llarena, the Supreme Court judge summoned to appear in a Belgian court as...

Spain hires lawyer for judge Llarena sued in Belgium

Catalan News ACN
The Spanish government has taken the first steps to hire a Belgian firm of lawyers in order to ‘defend Spain’s interests’ in the judicial process...

Controversy over alleged attack for removing yellow ribbons

Catalan News ACN
Yellow ribbons and bows showing support for the jailed Catalan pro-independence leaders are once more hitting the headlines and have become the focus of a political...

Franco exhumation: Spain passes decree

Tim Parfitt / AFP / Agencies
Spain’s Socialist (PSOE) government passed a decree on Friday allowing the exhumation of the remains of Franco from his vast mausoleum, a decision that divides...