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Spanish small-town mayors face flak for getting coronavirus vaccine
- Europe
- January 18, 2021, 21:30
Local politicians in Spain are among those under fire for allegedly exploiting their position to jump the queue and get vaccinated against Covid-19. (...)

Spain’s new memory law to help search for Franco’s victims
- Europe
- September 15, 2020, 18:35
Spain’s leftist government has unveiled details of a historical memory Bill which seeks to address the legacy of the dictatorship of Francisco Franco.(...)

Spanish regional elections see nationalists surge
- Europe
- July 13, 2020, 17:51
The result of Sunday’s Galician election can hardly have stirred more mixed feelings for Spanish opposition leader Pablo Casado. His conservative Po(...)

Coronavirus upheaval leaves Spain’s Pedro Sánchez struggling
- Europe
- May 21, 2020, 19:00
Spain’s prime minister Pedro Sánchez secured a crucial parliamentary victory this week, but his minority government has been left looking more fragile(...)

Leftist deal raises prospects of new Spanish government
- Europe
- November 12, 2019, 18:46
Spain’s Socialists have signed an agreement to form a governing coalition with the leftist Podemos party, in the hope of ending the country’s six-mont(...)

Spain’s reckoning with its past shows Francoism is far from dead
- Europe
- October 26, 2019, 06:00
To reach the Valley of the Fallen, you drive up a steep, winding road through a pine forest 60km northwest of Madrid. It’s an idyllic spot, offering a(...)

Elections round-up: how people voted across the EU
- Europe
- May 27, 2019, 19:43
AUSTRIA The conservative People’s Party (ÖVP) of Sebastian Kurz shrugged off 10 days of crisis, and his impending dismissal as chancellor, to finish (...)

Spain’s right-wing ‘prince’ divides a nation ahead of election
- Europe
- April 22, 2019, 06:00
Earlier this year, while addressing members of his conservative Popular Party (PP), Pablo Casado made headlines when he broached the issue of abortion(...)

Sánchez’s Catalan strategy angers adversaries and unsettles allies
- Europe
- December 21, 2018, 20:13
“Perhaps it wasn’t worth coming, just to approve some minor measures,” said the Catalan government’s spokeswoman, Elsa Artadi, as she disdainfully app(...)

Angry scenes mar Spanish prime minister’s Barcelona visit
- Europe
- December 21, 2018, 20:00
A visit by Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez to Barcelona on Friday sparked street demonstrations by pro-independence activists and drew stinging r(...)