Ciudadanos leaders remove yellow ribbons
The Ciudadanos (Cs) party leader, Albert Rivera, together with Inés Arrimadas, the leader of the same party (Ciutadans) in Catalonia, removed yellow ribbons in the Catalan town of Alella...
Spanish Government
Sánchez: Franco mausoleum cannot be ‘place of reconciliation’
Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has ruled out transforming dictator Francisco Franco‘s controversial mausoleum into a place of reconciliation, going against suggestions by an expert commission...
Sánchez: defence of judge is a ‘state matter’
Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has come out in defence of Pablo Llarena, the Supreme Court judge summoned to appear in a Belgian court as...
Spain hires lawyer for judge Llarena sued in Belgium
The Spanish government has taken the first steps to hire a Belgian firm of lawyers in order to ‘defend Spain’s interests’ in the judicial process...
Franco’s family to ‘take care’ of remains
The family of Francisco Franco will take possession of his remains after they are exhumed, one of his grandchildren was reported as saying on Saturday....
Madrid to challenge reopening of Catalan offices abroad
Spain’s Foreign Minister, Josep Borrell, is to launch a high court challenge against the Catalan government’s decision to reopen its offices abroad that were closed...
Migrants who stormed border sent back
Spain on Thursday sent back to Morocco the 116 migrants who had forced their way into the Spanish territory of Ceuta, in a mass expulsion condemned by...
Franco exhumation creates political row
For over 40 years the remains of dictator Francisco Franco have lain in the mausoleum outside Madrid known as the Valley of the Fallen. However,...
Migrants storm Morocco-Spain border, police injured
Over 100 African migrants forced their way into the Spanish territory of Ceuta on Wednesday after storming a barbed-wire border fence with Morocco and attacking...
Rush to visit Franco’s tomb before remains moved
‘Since they are going to remove Franco, I wanted to see it. It’s morbid curiosity,’ says Antonio Nevado, one of thousands of Spaniards who have...
