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Around four million people in the Barcelona metropolitan area have been requested to only leave home for essential reasons, with cinemas, theatres and nightclubs also closing.

Madrid clinched their 34th Spanish league title — and first since 2017 — after extending their perfect run following the pandemic break with a 2-1 win over Villarreal

Relatives of some of those who have died in the coronavirus pandemic in Spain joined the country’s royalty for a solemn ceremony in Madrid on Thursday.

"I send my condolences and sincere compassion and affection to all of the families who have lost loved ones. I share their pain. Their grieving is my grieving," King Felipe said.

Roger Torrent, who is a leading supporter of Catalonia’s independence campaign, alleged the reports “prove what we already knew: that the Spanish state spies on its political opponents.”

Voters head to polling stations in Spain's Galicia and Basque Country regions in elections postponed by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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The longest border within the EU has reopened for the first time since the coronavirus lockdowns were imposed.

Elderly family members meet each other for the first time in months in a Spanish nursing home

"We'll find a use for most things to stop them going to landfill."

Face-masks are still compulsory in public when it's not possible to observe social distancing.

European countries are reopening their borders as #coronavirus cases fall

Euronews' political editor Darren McCaffrey looks at the possibility COVID-19 was present in Europe weeks earlier than the first official case.

It comes after he tested positive for coronavirus after attending a party in Spain that broke lockdown rules. He subsequently apologised.

As Latin America becomes the new epicenter for the pandemic, the EU and Spain sought to raise awareness and aid to help Venezuelan refugees struggling from the migration and health crisis.