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...
Pedro Sánchez
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....
ETA prisoners fate divides Spain
ETA may be history but the dilemma of what to do with prisoners linked to the former armed separatist group stirs passions in the Basque...
Spanish feminists face far-right backlash
After a year of massive mobilisation, Spain’s powerful feminist movement is facing a backlash with the emergence of far-right party Vox which wants to repeal...
Focus on Ciudadanos: ‘weather vane’ to ‘dangerous friendships’
Four years after it burst onto the national scene, Spain’s Ciudadanos (Cs) party is poised to govern a region for the first time, in a...
Far-right Vox forms agreement with PP
Far-right party Vox, which sent shockwaves through Spain after winning a surprise 12 seats in Andalusia last month, has said it would vote in favour...
Gibraltar rebuffs talk of joint sovereignty
Gibraltar’s Chief Minister Fabian Picardo on Monday rejected talk of Spain sharing sovereignty of the tiny territory with Britain after Brexit, saying the concept was...
