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Are Spain and Italy covering up the number of migrant arrivals?

Ahead of April's general election, Spain is acting tough on migration - and the country's coastguards are on the front line of a brewing storm.

12/04/2019

Europe News

Death of terminally-ill woman reignites euthanasia debate in Spain

Ángel Hernández was arrested in Madrid on homicide charges after he helped his terminally ill wife to end her life. He filmed the event as proof.

12/04/2019

World

Tough battle ahead as Spanish General Election begins

Voters will go to the polls in a little over two weeks time to elect a new government. Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s Socialist Party starts the campaign as favorite.

12/04/2019

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Greenpeace unveils Madrid banner calling for action on climate change

The yellow flag represents an invoice that lists the impact political decisions are having on climate and human rights, according to the NGO.

11/04/2019

Spain

Watch: Abused chimps allowed to retire in peace at Catalonia sanctua

Many were mistreated in their earlier lives as circus performers, television actors and domestic pets.

09/04/2019

Spain

Do growing numbers of Swedish women have a serious gambling problem?

Experts think they do.

05/04/2019

Spain

Call for gay "conversion therapy" to be abolished

Spain's health minister warns Catholic diocese over a report that it offered to convert an undercover reporter posing as gay man

04/04/2019

Spain

EU draft law says Gibraltar is a British 'colony'

The mention was included as a footnote in a draft law over visa-free travel to the EU for Britons after Brexit.

03/04/2019

Spain

Road Trip Europe Day 12 - Barcelona: 'There is no justice, there is no

As our road trip team arrives in Barcelona, they ask Catalans what they think of think of the independence movement.

02/04/2019

Spain

Romanian-born poet Miguel Gane reflects on European identity

Road Trip Europe: Romanian-born poet Miguel Gane reflects on European identity

02/04/2019

Spain

Road Trip Europe: Barcelona divided as separatists and far-right clash

As our road trip team reaches Barcelona, Catalan separatists clash with far-right protesters in a violent confrontation

01/04/2019

Spain

The 'Revolt of Empty Spain': Why is Spain's rural world protesting?

The 'Revolt of Empty Spain': Why is Spain's rural world protesting?

31/03/2019

Spain

Catalan separatists clash with police in protest against far-right

Members of the Catalan Separatist Committees for the Defence of the Republic faced-off with riot police after holding an anti-Vox party demonstration.

30/03/2019

Spain

Group broke into N Korean embassy in Spain and offered intel to FBI

Spanish court reveals details of mysterious break in.

27/03/2019

Spain

Politics meets football as Catalonia plays first match for two years

England’s comeback thrashing of Montenegro, Cristiano Ronaldo’s injury or France’s dismissal of Iceland would have been most people’s headlines from Monday’s international football fixtures. But there was one game you probably didn’t hear about.

26/03/2019

Spain

Spanish farmers say politicians are failing to prepare for the future

Spanish farmers say they have been ignored by politicians in Madrid and Brussels who are failing to help the region tackle depopulation and climate change

26/03/2019

Spain

FBI informant stole from North Korean embassy in Spain, court says

He is the alleged leader of a group of 10 people who attacked the North Korean embassy in Madrid on February 22.

26/03/2019

World

Road Trip Day 7 - Europe's truck driver shortage

The road trip team travels with two truck drivers, who talk about the effect of the EU on their profession.

26/03/2019

Spain

Spain's Socialists lead latest poll but fall short of majority

Spain's Socialists led in a poll published on Sunday in daily El Pais, but fell short of a majority with its main ally ahead of a general election next month.

24/03/2019

My Europe Series

INSIDERS | Spain and the rise of the far-right

In Spain, issues like border protection, crime, and unemployment, have propelled far-right Vox party into office in Andalusia’s last regional elections.

22/03/2019

My Europe Series

INSIDERS | The rise of the Spanish Far-Right

In Spain, issues like border protection, crime, and unemployment, have propelled far-right Vox party into office in Andalusia’s last regional elections.

22/03/2019

My Europe Series

INSIDERS | Why far-right Vox party is gaining foothold in Spain

In the Andalucía region of southern Spain, the electoral breakthrough of the far-right Vox party has sent a shockwave through Spanish politics. Critics are calling the party stance anti-immigration and anti-feminist. Insiders’ Sophie Claudet sat down with Valérie Gauriat to find out more.

22/03/2019

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Flowers and music for Madrid commuters to welcome in spring

Young musicians welcome passengers from Atocha and Chamartín stations in Madrid with music and tulips on the first day of spring

21/03/2019

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Spain's "Fallas" festival ends with burning of giant ninots

Fireworks and flames took over central Valencia on Tuesday (March 19) as locals and thousands of tourists celebrated the end of a four-day festival with the burning of over 380 ornate and colourful monuments made up of giant figures known as ninots, in the "Crema de Fallas" (burning of the fallas).

20/03/2019

Spain

Watch: Thousands gather for burning of ninots at Fallas festival

Each neighbourhood in the city spends a year building the ornate monuments, only to set them alight and begin again.

20/03/2019

Spain

This competition thinks it's found the best recipe to cook on Mars

Contestants in a Spanish cooking competition had to come up with a dish that was both tasty but could also be transported to and prepared on the red planet.

18/03/2019