Between The Rock and a Hard Brexit
It has long been Northern Ireland that has bedevilled efforts to negotiate an orderly Brexit, but now another British territory has emerged to haunt the...
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Spain: an independent Scotland could rejoin EU
Spain’s foreign minister said Tuesday that an independent Scotland could rejoin the European Union after Brexit – and warned of the United Kingdom’s ‘weakness’. Previously,...
Sánchez warns of election if budget blocked
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez warned Tuesday he will call an early general election unless parliament approves his minority government’s draft 2019 Budget, which is...
Spain’s chosen judiciary head backs out
Manuel Marchena, the judge chosen to preside over the Spanish judiciary following an agreement between the ruling Socialists (PSOE) and People’s Party (PP), has decided...
Spain’s Catholic Church wants to ‘eradicate’ sexual abuse
Spain’s Catholic Church wants to ‘eradicate’ cases of sexual abuse of minors within the church and not cover them up, the president of the Spanish...
Spain insists on Gibraltar veto in Brexit deal
Spain warned Monday it could yet derail the Brexit deal agreed between London and Brussels if it does not guarantee Madrid’s veto over Gibraltar’s future...
Leaked chats hint to ‘control’ of court trial
According to leaked chats from Spain’s People’s Party (PP) spokesman in the Spanish Senate, the party could ‘control from the behind the scenes’ the trial prosecuting...
EU to debate ‘painful’ Brexit divorce
European governments started to thrash out a plan for close ties with post-Brexit Britain on Monday in the last week before they gather to sign...
Pro-Franco rally disrupted by topless Femen activists
Topless protestors from the feminist activist group Femen disrupted a rally of some 200 people in Madrid on Sunday, who’d gathered to mark the anniversary of...
Barcelona to revoke medal awarded to Franco
Barcelona City Council is to revoke a medal awarded to the late dictator Francisco Franco in 1964, that marked 25 years since the victory of...
