From accommodation to food and transport, there are lots of ways to save money

An agreed, Scottish-style referendum may be necessary to clear the air

Spanish minister Meritxell Batet on her government’s detente with Catalan leaders

Pablo Casado promises a return to traditional conservative values for Popular Party

As the Popular Party chooses a new leader, members grapple with a threat of extinction

Leader could resign ahead of no-confidence vote amid torrent of corruption allegations

Also on the podcast, why a Spanish rape trial prompted protests

Three-year investigation reveals efforts to smuggling mostly Chinese migrants into UK and Republic

Judicial decision is likely to have profound political repercussions

Investigation into Trump’s links to Russian intensifies as does crisis in Catalonia

Each nationalism - Catalan and Spanish - has dug itself deeper into exclusively self-referential bunkers

‘You have to take sides and that makes more and more people go to the extremes’

It’s hard to view Madrid taking control as anything other than a hard re-centralisation

This week’s World View looks at the rise of Sebastian Kurz and the latest Catalonia crisis

Spanish government’s crackdown over controversial poll widens rift with region

Thousands rally in Barcelona amid Spanish government threats over illegal referendum

This week’s edition of World View looks at the unprecedented food crisis in east Africa

Two men alleged to have been paid €3.3m via Emerald Business Consulting

This week’s edition of World View looks at Brexit, gang crime in Spain and Davos 2017

Former bank robber Jason Coghlan says he is the lawyer ‘a Paddy’s going to call’

Mariano Rajoy ‘well aware’ of circumstances pertaining to Ireland, says Taoiseach

Healthcare access and shifting incomes are making people feel very insecure in Spain

Debate and vote on path to independence appears to violate a Spanish court ruling

Prime minister Mariano Rajoy plans cuts to avoid European Commission sanction for failing to control the public deficit

People who fail to pick up after animals can either pay fine or choose to clean city streets

Otegi (57) jailed in 2009 for trying to reform political party linked to terrorist group Eta

As four factions fail to form a coalition, voters wonder if big picture is ignored

Drugs, guns, explosives dominate scene in which ‘new life can be invented with ease’

World View: Podemos ‘reconnects’ with voters who had drifted away in recent months

Centre-right partnership received 38.5% of the votes – but it will have to read carefully

Latest twist in extraordinary story of ‘Red Duchess’ of Media Sidonia

Search for Don Quixote author’s remains led team to coffin under convent floor

Editor Kevin O’Sullivan casts his eye back over the highlights of an eventful 12 months in his editorial review of 2013

The Lehman Legacy

The Portuguese government’s strict austerity programme, in accordance with the bailout conditions, is fuelling civic outrage

Activists marching on homes of government politicians to protest against evictions

Spain and Slovenia singled out as having “excessive macroeconomic imbalances”

Photographs emerge of Alberto Núñez Feijóo holidaying with criminal serving 14 years

Delegation in Madrid met with three-day strike and major doping trial