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Spain’s Supreme Court keeps overseas voting restrictions in place for 29 November election

News Desk12th October 202619th October 2026

12th October 202619th October 20261168

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...

Spanish prosecutors seek restoration of ‘grandchildren’s law’ voting rights before November election

News Desk9th October 202618th October 2026

9th October 202618th October 20261428

Spain’s public prosecutors have asked the Supreme Court to lift a temporary restriction on voting by people granted Spanish nationality under the so-called ‘grandchildren’s law’,...

Spain’s Supreme Court provisionally restricts voting rights for some descendants granted nationality under ‘grandchildren’s law’

News Desk11th September 202616th September 2026

11th September 202616th September 20261742

Spain’s Supreme Court has ordered a temporary suspension of electoral registration for certain people who obtained Spanish nationality under the Democratic Memory Law, commonly known...

Spain’s citizenship law for descendants abroad ignites election row

News Desk1st July 20266th July 2026

1st July 20266th July 20261973

A law designed to grant Spanish citizenship to descendants of expatriates has become the centre of an increasingly bitter political dispute, with right-wing opposition parties...

Madrid’s refusal to loan Picasso’s ‘Guernica’ to Bilbao fuels political tensions

News Desk7th April 202613th April 2026

7th April 202613th April 20265609

A growing political and cultural dispute has erupted in Spain over whether Pablo Picasso’s iconic anti-war painting Guernica should be temporarily moved from Madrid to...

Large Civil War air-raid shelter uncovered beneath Barcelona street works

News Desk26th March 202631st March 2026

26th March 202631st March 20261536

Police and archaeologists in Barcelona have uncovered a large Civil War-era air-raid shelter in the Sants–Montjuïc district, after three access points were found during recent...

Spain’s 1981 coup leader Antonio Tejero dies aged 93, on same day files are declassified

News Desk26th February 20262nd March 2026

26th February 20262nd March 20262419

Antonio Tejero Molina, the former Spanish Civil Guard lieutenant colonel who led the failed military coup of 23 February 1981, has died at the age...

Spanish government seeks to speed up the dissolution of Franco foundation

News Desk1st November 20255th November 2025

1st November 20255th November 20252269

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced on Friday that his left-leaning coalition government will speed up efforts to seek the dissolution of the Francisco Franco...

Spanish government to publish a list of Franco-era symbols targeted for removal

News Desk22nd October 202527th October 2025

22nd October 202527th October 20252749

Spain’s left-leaning coalition government plans to release next month an official inventory of monuments and emblems from General Francisco Franco’s dictatorship that are to be...

Initial forensic work begins to exhume bodies of 128 victims of Civil War

News Desk18th June 202327th June 2023

18th June 202327th June 20233379

Initial forensic work began on Monday to try to exhume the bodies of 128 victims of the Spanish Civil War, who are among tens of...

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