The post-Brexit Gibraltar deal is going down badly in Spain
Conservative and Reform politicians have denounced this week’s post-Brexit Gibraltar deal as a betrayal. ‘Gibraltar is British, and given Labour’s…
Will Gibraltar get in the way of Starmer’s EU reset?
For years, the UK, Spain, Gibraltar and the European Union have been negotiating, on and off, to resolve the complex issue…
Spain needs time to recover from its power outage chaos
By six o’clock this morning, electricity had been restored to 99 per cent of Spain. Restoring people’s sense of security…
Spain’s defence spending boost pleases nobody
Just a week after US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Spain to spend more on defence, the country’s socialist prime…
Why Spain is cosying up to China
‘You’ll be cutting your own throat,’ US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned countries thinking of aligning with China. The remarks…
How Spain is trying to dodge spending more on defence
Spain’s defence spending, at a mere 1.28 per cent of its GDP, lags behind all other Nato members. While most…
Luis Rubiales and Spain’s war on machismo
Luis Rubiales kissed player Jenni Hermoso on the lips during the medal ceremony after Spain won the Women’s World Cup…
What Luis Rubiales’s trial will reveal
The trial of Luis Rubiales, former president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation, starts in Madrid on Monday. After Spain…
Spain’s expat tax won’t last long
‘There are only two families in the world, as a grandmother of mine used to say: the haves and the…
The solution to Spain’s problems
It’s not often that a country can solve a serious, endemic problem quickly, easily and at no expense at all.…
Spain won’t forgive and forget over Valencia’s deadly floods
The head of the Valencia regional government has just attempted an impossible task – justifying his administration’s conduct before, during…
Trump’s triumph has infuriated the Spanish left
‘Everybody’s lost but me,’ mutters a teenage Indiana Jones emerging from a cave in the middle of the desert to…
Heads will roll after Spain’s flooding catastrophe
Spain’s King and Queen were pelted with mud yesterday when they visited Paiporta, epicentre of the flood disaster zone in…
Why Spaniards keep being killed by bulls
A 57-year-old man was gored and killed during the bull running through the streets of Vall d’Uixo (population 31,000) in Spain…
Mexico wants Spain to apologise for conquering the Aztecs
When Claudia Sheinbaum becomes Mexico’s first female president later today, Felipe VI, the King of Spain, will not be present.…
Is anti-tourism becoming Spain’s Brexit?
Believing that membership of the European Union was undeniably beneficial for the UK economy, many Remainers struggled to understand why…
How does Spain solve a problem like Carles Puigdemont?
Last week saw dramatic events in Catalonia as Carles Puigdemont, wanted for almost seven years by Spanish justice for spearheading the region’s…
Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont escapes arrest – again
There was something fitting about the name of the thoroughfare in which Carles Puigdemont was welcomed back to Barcelona on…
Spain isn’t afraid of England at all
England play Spain this evening in the final of the 2024 UEFA European Football Championship. On Wednesday evening England’s last-minute…
There’s one place in Spain that hasn’t turned against tourists
Would you like to spend the winter in Benidorm? I guess it depends on the alternatives, but I wasn’t surprised…
Pedro Sanchez may come to regret passing Spain’s amnesty law
When has any nation’s government amnestied hundreds of people facing criminal charges in return for the votes that allow it…
Javier Milei won’t stop insulting Pedro Sanchez’s wife
The Spanish ambassador in Buenos Aires was recalled to Madrid yesterday after Argentina’s president Javier Milei described the wife of…
Catalonia has gone cold on independence
Is Catalonia’s independence movement dead in the water? Elections held in the region on Sunday reveal that support for separatist…
Do Spaniards have the right to eat in restaurants at midnight?
Yolanda Díaz, one of Spain’s deputy prime ministers, raised eyebrows during last summer’s election campaign when she arranged to be…
How Catalan separatists are taking control of immigration
In Spain’s general election last July, the right-wing Partido Popular and the even more right-wing Vox won 170 seats, just…
