Brexit deal defeat: EU reactions
The EU and European governments have warned that the British parliament’s rejection of a Brexit deal heightened the risk of a disorderly withdrawal from the...
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Spanish feminists protest at far-right ‘sexist’ party
Spain’s powerful feminist movement rallied across the country on Tuesday against far-right party Vox for seeking to scrap tough laws against gender violence which it...
Felipe VI, Puigdemont, Rajoy requested as witnesses
Spain’s king Felipe VI, along with the former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont and the former Spanish Prime Minister at the time of 1 October 2017 referendum, Mariano...
Police raid Barcelona cell suspected of plotting attack
The Catalan police, the Mossos d’Esquadra launched a counter-terrorism operation in Barcelona and a nearby city on Tuesday against an alleged militant Islamist cell suspected of...
Spanish police arrest 182 people at illegal cockfight
Spanish police said Monday they had arrested 182 people who took part in a ‘national’ cockfighting competition, an ancient sport that continues in some regions...
Spain stops Open Arms rescue boat from setting sail
Rescue charity Proactiva Open Arms has said that the authorities are preventing its ship from setting sail from Barcelona to save migrants. ‘We are blocked...
Thousands demand transfers for ETA prisoners
Tens of thousands of people demonstrated in the Basque Country on Saturday demanding that prisoners linked to the former armed separatist group ETA be transferred to...
Spanish bank BBVA suspected of corporate spying
Spain’s second-largest bank BBVA is suspected of having used a disgraced former police chief to illegally tap the phones of journalists, politicians and businesspeople to...
Sánchez seeks Catalan support for budget
Spain’s Socialist government has presented its draft 2019 Budget, and which will start parliamentary procedures on Monday – but whether it will succeed remains far from certain....
Barcelona mayor visits jailed Catalan leaders
Barcelona mayor Ada Colau visited jailed pro-independence Catalan leaders in the Lledoners prison on Friday. This is not the first time Colau has gone to...
