Between The Rock and a Hard Brexit
It has long been Northern Ireland that has bedevilled efforts to negotiate an orderly Brexit, but now another British territory has emerged to haunt the...
Pedro Sánchez
Sánchez warns of election if budget blocked
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez warned Tuesday he will call an early general election unless parliament approves his minority government’s draft 2019 Budget, which is...
Spain’s chosen judiciary head backs out
Manuel Marchena, the judge chosen to preside over the Spanish judiciary following an agreement between the ruling Socialists (PSOE) and People’s Party (PP), has decided...
Leaked chats hint to ‘control’ of court trial
According to leaked chats from Spain’s People’s Party (PP) spokesman in the Spanish Senate, the party could ‘control from the behind the scenes’ the trial prosecuting...
Pro-Franco rally disrupted by topless Femen activists
Topless protestors from the feminist activist group Femen disrupted a rally of some 200 people in Madrid on Sunday, who’d gathered to mark the anniversary of...
Barcelona to revoke medal awarded to Franco
Barcelona City Council is to revoke a medal awarded to the late dictator Francisco Franco in 1964, that marked 25 years since the victory of...
Basque leader: jailed Catalan leaders ‘unfair’
The Basque leader, Íñigo Urkullu, has expressed his support for the nine Catalan leaders in pre-trial jail and has called their situation ‘unfair’. Talking to...
Arrimadas accuses Catalan public TV of ‘lying’ and bias
The leader of the opposition in Catalonia, Inés Arrimadas, has accused Catalan public television (TV3) of being biased in favour of the independence movement. Arrimadas...
Man jailed for plotting to kill Spanish PM
The Catalan police, the Mossos d’Esquadra, arrested a man from the town of Terrassa on 21 September for plotting the assassination of Spanish Prime Minister,...
Sánchez to override court on mortgage tax
The Spanish government will put forward legislation so banks, not clients, pay the tax on new mortgages, thus overriding a widely criticised Supreme Court ruling....
