Thousands march in Barcelona against airport expansion as protests spread to Balearic Islands
Thousands of people took to the streets of Barcelona on Sunday to oppose the planned expansion of the city’s El Prat airport, amid growing concern...
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Severe winds hit Catalonia, leaving one dead, eight injured amid travel chaos and widespread closures
# UPDATED – A 46-year-old woman died after part of a warehouse roof collapsed on her during the powerful winds that hit Catalonia on Thursday,...
Spain’s Aena gets green light for €3.2bn expansion of Barcelona-El Prat airport
The Catalan government has given approval for Spain’s airport operator Aena to carry out a 3.2 billion euro expansion of Barcelona airport – officially the...
Catalonia suspends train service, and Barcelona airport is partially flooded
The recurrent storms in eastern Spain that led to massive flooding last week and killed at least 217 people, mostly near Valencia, dumped rain on...
Four ‘drug mummies’ detained at Barcelona airport
Spain’s National Police have detained four people at Barcelona-El Prat Airport, two of them carrying 186 cylinders of cocaine inside their bodies – and two...
Security staff at Barcelona airport call indefinite strike from 10 August
Security staff at Barcelona airport have called an indefinite strike starting from 10 August, from Thursday to Monday, and divided into three shifts. The strike...
Spain suspends Barcelona airport expansion plans due to lack of support from Catalan government
The Spanish government and Aena, the country’s airport authority, have suspended a €1.7 billion investment plan to expand Barcelona El Prat airport, due to lack of...
Barcelona airport expansion plan given go-ahead with €1.7bn investment
The Spanish and Catalan governments have reached an agreement to move forward with the expansion of Barcelona airport with a huge €1.7 billion investment plan, aiming to transform...
Barcelona airport expansion plans: environmentalists at odds with business groups
There is increasing pressure to expand Barcelona El Prat Airport to raise capacity to create jobs and economic growth, with local business leaders joining forces...
Tsunami Democràtic block AP-7 motorway at French border
The Catalan pro-independence protest group Tsunami Democràtic has blocked the AP-7 motorway near the French border. It forms part of their protest aimed to ‘call...
