Coronavirus in Spain full update (8 April)
Report updated in Spain at 20h on Wednesday 8 April. Official figures released by the Spanish Health Ministry at 11.30am on Wednesday 8 April confirm 146,690 known cases
Fernando Grande-Marlaska
Coronavirus in Spain full update (3 April)
Report updated in Spain at 17h on Friday 3 April. Official figures released by the Spanish Health Ministry at 11.45am on Friday 3 April confirm 117,710 known cases of Coronavirus
Coronavirus in Spain full update (16 March)
As the Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic continued to spread across the globe on Monday, Spain experienced its first working day in the ‘state of alarm’ lockdown, imposed
Spain to close its land borders
Spain is closing its land borders with France and Portugal from midnight tonight in an attempt to further contain the spread of Coronavirus (Covid-19). Spanish
Pedro Sánchez names his cabinet: four deputy PMs and 18 other ministers
Spain’s Socialist (PSOE) Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, officially re-elected on Tuesday 7 January, announced his full new coalition cabinet on Sunday, which includes left-wing Podemos head
Clara Ponsatí’s lawyers seek to summon Sánchez and Rajoy to Edinburgh court
The defence team for Clara Ponsatí, the former Catalan education minister now living in Scotland and fighting extradition to Spain for her role in the 2017 Catalan
Opinion: Will the Basques be next?
Ask Basques about whether they were shocked by the scale of the police brutality and judicial repression of the Catalan independence movement in recent weeks,
Hundreds queue to declare themselves guilty for voting in Catalan referendum
Hundreds of people have queued outside the gates of the City of Justice in Barcelona since 9am on Monday morning, in order to present a letter
Backlash over minister’s comments comparing violence in Catalonia with Basque Country
Fernando Grande-Marlaska, Spain’s acting interior minister, has clarified statements on Monday that he made in an interview with a newspaper that suggested he had compared the
Spanish PM visits Barcelona, refusing to talk or meet with Catalan president
Spain’s acting prime minister Pedro Sánchez visited Barcelona on Monday, yet refused to speak or meet with the Catalan president Quim Torra. Sánchez visited police officers