Far-right Vox calls for ‘naval blockade’ to stop migrant crisis in Canary Islands
So far this year 95.5% of migrant arrivals to Spain have been by sea, in what is also seen to be a direct impact of...
Migrants
ECHR rules Spain did not violate Human Rights with immediate deportations
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled on Thursday that Spain did not violate the European Convention on Human Rights when it immediately deported two...
Open Arms rescues another 40 migrants at sea
The rescue ship of the Proactiva Open Arms NGO based in Badalona, north of Barcelona, picked up 40 migrants stranded in the Mediterranean Sea on...
Salvini still refusing safe harbour despite 6 countries willing to relocate migrants
Fourteen days after being rescued from drowning in the Mediterranean Sea by the Catalan NGO Proactiva Open Arms, 134 migrants remain stranded. Italy still refuses...
Italian court lets ‘Open Arms’ rescue ship enter territorial waters
The Open Arms rescue ship is on its way to Lampedusa with 147 people on board after an Italian court accepted the Catalan NGO’s appeal...
UN Refugee Agency calls for ‘immediate disembarkation’ of 507 people
The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has issued a statement calling on European governments to allow the ‘immediate disembarkation’ of 507 people saved by Open Arms and...
Minister wants EU to assume responsibility for rescue ship
Spain’s acting Minister of Development, José Luís Ábalos, has asked the European Commission to take on greater responsibility when it comes to the fate of...
General Election focus: the Vox party
Spain has its own version of the far-right and the populist turned mainstream, part of a wave that has been surging through Europe: Vox, a...
NGO ship released for aid mission but not refugee rescue
The NGO ship Open Arms has received permission to leave Barcelona, where it had been forbidden to set sail from the port for more than...
Amnesty calls on Spain to release migrant rescue ships
Amnesty International has called on the Spanish government to take steps to allow two vessels confined to the ports of Barcelona and Pasaia (in the Basque...
