31st October 2026

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Spain and Italy agree to end border checks after months of tension over Ceuta

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Spain and Italy agreed on Thursday to end the reciprocal border checks introduced after the summer migration crisis in Ceuta, bringing an almost three-month confrontation...
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Spain and Italy plan joint end to border checks imposed after Ceuta crisis

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Spain and Italy are preparing to restore travel without routine border checks on their air and sea connections, following a diplomatic dispute triggered by the...
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Spain’s Supreme Court keeps overseas voting restrictions in place for 29 November election

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Spain’s Supreme Court has upheld restrictions preventing overseas citizens who obtained Spanish nationality through a disputed application of the ‘grandchildren’s law’ from voting in the...
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Thousands march in Madrid over Ceuta crisis, demanding early election and migrant returns

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Thousands of people marched through central Madrid on Saturday to protest against the Spanish government’s handling of the migration crisis in Ceuta and demand an...
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Spain’s interior minister faces calls to resign over secret dossier profiling journalists

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Spain’s Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska (main image) is facing mounting criticism over a confidential dossier compiled by his ministry that classified hundreds of journalists, commentators...
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Spain’s Ceuta crisis: Polls show widespread disapproval of Sánchez as PP and Vox pass 50%

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Nearly nine in 10 Spaniards hold Morocco responsible for the mass migrant crossings into Ceuta, while almost two-thirds rate socialist (PSOE) Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s...
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Tens of thousands rally across Spain in support of Ceuta as crisis fuels anger at Sánchez government

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Tens of thousands of people took to the streets across Spain on Wednesday in a nationwide show of support for Ceuta, as the continuing fallout...
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Spain’s police chief says Ceuta report does not attribute ‘planning or execution’ of migrant crisis to Morocco

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Spain’s National Police director has told Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska that a controversial intelligence report submitted to the National Court does not attribute the ‘planning...
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Italy and Spain extend tit-for-tat border controls for another 15 days over Ceuta migrant crisis

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Italy and Spain are extending temporary border controls on travellers arriving from each other’s countries for a further 15 days, prolonging measures introduced in the...
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