With Spain now the main entry point for illegal immigration from Africa, the Mayor of Madrid has hailed the influx as “extraordinarily positive” for Europe, describing newcomers as “heroes who follow their dreams”.
MADRID (AP) — Spain’s maritime rescue service says it has ‘saved’ over 300 migrants crossing of the Mediterranean Sea this weekend.
A man of North African origin has allegedly stabbed two German tourists on the Spanish island of Majorca before being gunned down and restrained by police.
China is reportedly increasing access to Spanish and Portuguese language study to better expand its footprint across Latin America, The Guardian revealed in a report Sunday.
Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi signed an agreement on Monday for further Greek cooperation with China’s “Belt and Road” infrastructure plan, the latest step in the debt-driven courtship between Athens and Beijing.
A boat packed with around fifty illegal migrants beached itself on a luxury resort in Spain’s Costa de la Luz on Sunday.
Criminal people-smugglers with their own ‘president’ and ‘prime minister’ are training massed bands of African migrants to attack Spain’s borders with Morocco in exchange for money.
MADRID (AP) — A group of around 300 migrants stormed fences separating Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta from Morocco on Wednesday, and 116 of them made it onto European soil, authorities said.
An Algerian migrant male was shot dead early Monday morning by Spanish police after he attempted to attack officers with a knife.
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) – A Catalan seaside resort has marked the anniversary of a terror attack that killed one and injured six following deadlier violence in Barcelona’s Las Ramblas.
A Catholic university in Spain has condemned the “hatred” shown by far-left extremists who brutally beat a group of students for wearing shirts advertising the name of their college.
(AP) — Spanish rescue services say they have pulled 524 migrants to safety from 12 boats attempting to reach Spain from northern Africa, currently the most used sea route into Europe.
Spain must open its borders to more than five million migrants over the coming decades in order to fund the pension system, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has declared.
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The leaders of Germany and Spain on Saturday promoted a shared approach to immigration into the European Union amid growing populist opposition in other EU nations to taking in more asylum-seekers.
Contents: Italy threatens EU with immigration fight to get budget concessions; Spain becomes the major destination for migrants from Africa
ALGECIRAS, Spain (AP) — A rescue boat carrying 87 African migrants who were saved in the Mediterranean Sea docked Thursday at the southern Spanish port of Algeciras, but without the welcome offered to previous groups as the political mood in Spain began showing signs of tension about a spike in migrant arrivals.
BERLIN (AP) — Germany says it has reached an agreement with Spain for that country to take back previously registered migrants who show up at the German border, a first step toward implementing a deal to defuse a domestic political dispute over migration.
Morocco could have deliberately increased the flow of migrants setting off for Spain to pressure the European Union (EU) to make more generous concessions in forthcoming talks.
The European Commission is “alarmed” by a heating up of debates over immigration in Spain, provoked by rising populist leaders, El País reported Monday.
European Union officials fear they may “lose Spain” to populism as a result of the migrant surge which the country’s new Socialist Party government has encouraged.
Berlin has indicated that it may introduce controls along the borders with France and Switzerland after the Socialist-led Spanish government accepted thousands of migrants, with Germany fearing a fresh migrant wave.
(AP) — Spain is setting up a central operational command for migrant management amid a summer surge in arrivals from North Africa, which is placing a strain on public services.
Police have arrested a Moroccan migrant after a British pensioner was allegedly sexually assaulted and robbed at her holiday apartment in Tenerife.
Newly released figures from Spanish police sources indicate that at least 50,000 sub-Saharan Africans are in Morocco waiting to head to Spain as Spanish Foreign Minister Josep Borrell has claimed Europe needs “new blood”.
The number of migrant sea arrivals in populist Italy, so far in 2018, is down 80 percent compared to last year, whilst surging by over 350 percent in the same period in socialist Spain.
Pressure on Spain’s maritime border is increasing, with videos showing boatloads of illegal migrants crashing into busy tourist beaches circulating online as the country overtakes Italy and Greece as the EU’s major weak point.
MADRID (AP) – Spain’s maritime rescue service says it has picked up nearly 1,000 migrants attempting the perilous crossing of the Mediterranean to Europe from North Africa over the last two days.
Migrant sea crossings to Europe in 2018 have broken 55,000, with Spain outstripping Italy and Greece as the number one point of arrival for the first time following the installation of a Socialist government in Madrid.
MADRID (AP) — Around 800 migrants stormed border fences separating Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta from Morocco to get into Europe, police said Thursday.
MADRID (AP) – Spanish authorities say hundreds of migrants have stormed border fences separating Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta from Morocco. Spanish news agency Europa Press quotes Ceuta police saying as many as 400 migrants may have made it
Spain leads European nations for new migrant arrivals in 2018 according to a new report from the International Organization for Migrants (IOM).
MADRID (AP) — Spain’s Maritime Rescue Service says at least 328 people have been rescued in the Mediterranean Sea despite strong currents in the Strait of Gibraltar area, the closest stretch of water separating Europe from North Africa.
The 2017 Cambrils terrorists had travelled to Paris the week before their August attack and had plotted to set off a truck bomb at the base of the Eiffel Tower, according to new information obtained by Spanish media.
(AP) — The Spanish government reports that the number of migrants reaching the country by sea is up more than 120 percent this year as the so-called Western Mediterranean route gained recognition as an alternative way to Europe.
Progressive campaigner George Soros has met “secretly” with the new socialist, open-borders supporting Prime Minister of Spain Pedro Sánchez, according to a report by Spanish media.
BRUSSELS (AP) — Spain is reporting that it has rescued at sea more than 600 people, more than half of them in the Strait of Gibraltar.
Austria has said it will close its border with Italy if Germany begins turning back some migrants at its border with Austria, while Italy and Malta have rejected another migrant ferry — but Spain’s new leftist government is going in the opposite direction and relaxing migration controls.
Spanish students have been “left out on the street” after being given just 24 hours to vacate their dormitories in order to make way for ‘Aquarius’ migrants.
Queen Letizia of Spain paid homage to First Lady Melania Trump’s sleek and sexy style, wearing a dress that Mrs. Trump previously wore for a meeting at the White House on Tuesday.
A Moroccan man has been arrested after six children were followed home and sexually assaulted on their own doorsteps in Alicante, Spain.
