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...
Refugees
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...
Centre for immigrant children attacked twice
A group of young people wearing hoods twice stormed a centre for unaccompanied immigrant children on the outskirts of Castelldefels, a town 25km south of...
Protests against prohibition of refugee rescue boat
Hundreds of people rallied against Spain’s prohibition on NGO Open Arms to sail for the Mediterranean in order to begin a new search and rescue...
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...
Catalan government offers port to welcome 49 refugees
The Catalan government has offered ports in Catalonia to welcome the 49 immigrants and refugees who have been at sea for over two weeks, waiting...
Migrant deaths in Mediterranean fall by over a quarter
The number of migrants who died or went missing attempting to cross the Mediterranean fell by more than a quarter in 2018 over the previous...
Rescue boat with over 300 migrants reaches Spain
A charity rescue boat carrying 311 mainly African migrants plucked off Libya docked in Spain on Friday, ending a traumatic journey which saw them spending Christmas...
Rescued migrants head for Spain after Italy closes ports
Spain on Saturday authorised a ship carrying hundreds of migrants rescued off Libya to sail to its waters after Italy and Malta refused to receive...
