Almost 60 percent of Italians say it was right to shut their ports to ships transporting illegal migrants from Africa, and 68 percent say populist interior minister Matteo Salvini was correct to stand up to the EU on the issue.
Contents: As Aquarius migrants head for Spain, Spain rescues 900 more migrants from Mediterranean; Italy’s migration policy opens up battle lines within the EU
Spain’s new Socialist Workers’ Party government has announced it is seeking to dismantle the razorwire fences which protect the borders of Ceuta and Melilla, the country’s two exclaves on the North African coast, from mass crossings by illegal migrants.
Spain’s new Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has made waves in his first two weeks in office, taking in the misbegotten migrant ship Aquarius after it was shunned by Italy and cracking down on the Catalan independence movement.
Contents: Spain’s offer to take in Aquarius migrants is rejected as dangerous to migrants; Italy cries victory, portending a growing EU migrant crisis this summer
Hundreds of African migrants have attempted to storm border fences separating European Union territory from Africa in the Spanish exclave of Ceuta, resulting in several injuries.
Contents: Spain’s new government faces an immediate Catalonia problem; Italy’s markets stabilize as new ‘populist’ government takes office
MADRID (AP) — Socialist leader Pedro Sanchez will become Spain’s new prime minister after a no-confidence vote Friday in parliament unseated Mariano Rajoy’s conservative government. He came in vowing to address the “social emergencies” of the country’s citizens after years of austerity measures.
MADRID (AP) — Opposition Socialist leader Pedro Sanchez has won a vote to replace Mariano Rajoy as prime minister, in the first ouster of a serving Spanish leader by parliament in four decades of democracy.
MADRID (AP) — Spain’s conservative government on Thursday appeared doomed to lose a no-confidence vote in parliament, with the centre-left Socialist party poised to take power.
(AP) — Spain’s maritime rescue service says it has rescued 366 migrants attempting the dangerous crossing of the Mediterranean Sea this weekend.
MADRID (AP) — Authorities in Spain issued arrest warrants Thursday for a Spanish rapper sentenced to prison for lyrics that praised terror groups and insulted the royal family.
BERLIN (AP) – A German court on Tuesday rejected a request from prosecutors to take former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont back into custody pending a decision on whether he can be extradited to Spain. Puigdemont was detained by German police
More than 50 male academics from Spain have pledged to boycott all conferences and speaking panels that don’t feature women.
Over 20,000 migrants have travelled to Europe by sea in the first 122 days of 2018, according to the UN Migration Agency.
(THE TIMES) — A gang who used jet skis to smuggle migrants across the Strait of Gibraltar in trips that took half an hour and cost £3,500 has been broken up by Spanish police.
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of Catalan separatists rallied in downtown Barcelona on Sunday to demand the release of high-profile secessionist leaders being held in pre-trial detention.
MADRID (AP) — The crown prince of Saudi Arabia was on an official visit Thursday to longtime commercial ally Spain, where activists are criticizing past and possible future sales of military equipment to the kingdom.
The European Union’s (EU) attempt at tackling people smuggling is failing and the terror threat remains high, the executive director of the bloc’s border agency has warned.
Contents: Violent clashes with police in Spain’s Catalonia follow arrest of Puigdemont in Germany; Spain’s arrests of Catalonia secessionist leaders revive memories of Franco’s brutal atrocities
BERLIN (AP) — Catalonia’s former president, Carles Puigdemont, is to be brought before a court in Germany to determine whether he stays in custody pending further decisions on extradition proceedings.
Ten Algerian migrant men were arrested in eastern Spain this week after they were alleged to have sexually abused three underage girls by luring them to an apartment offering drugs and money.
MADRID (AP) — A Spanish Supreme Court judge on Friday charged 13 Catalan separatist politicians, including fugitive former regional president Carles Puigdemont, with rebellion for their attempt to declare independence from Spain.
Madrid’s “most multicultural neighbourhood” was set aflame in riots against “racist” authorities after a Senegalese street vendor reportedly died of a heart attack.
The police in the Spanish seaside town of Torrevieja have arrested a 27-year-old man of Moroccan descent and are seeking two other individuals following the rape and robbery of a 32-year-old Belgian woman.
The socialist regime of dictator Nicolás Maduro has declared Spanish Ambassador to Venezuela Jesús Silva Fernández persona non grata and given him 72 hours to leave the country.
PARIS (AP) — A new report suggests that the Eiffel Tower may have been among the targets of the Islamic State cell that attacked Barcelona.
MADRID (AP) — Europe’s border watchdog says the number of migrants and asylum-seekers coming across the western Mediterranean Sea to Europe this year is likely to increase, after 2017 closed with more than twice the traffic of the previous year.
MADRID (AP) — Spain’s maritime rescue service says it has rescued 55 migrants from a boat in which they were trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea. The service says a non-governmental organization warned authorities on Tuesday about the boat with
MADRID (AP) — Spain’s prime minister said Friday he intends to convene Catalonia’s new parliament on Jan. 17 and hopes the restive region’s next government won’t renew the push for independence that fueled a serious political crisis.
Pro-independence parties will continue to enjoy a majority in Catalonia’s regional parliament, following snap elections imposed by Madrid.
A court in Beijing handed down 85 lengthy prison sentences for telephone fraud on Thursday. 44 of the defendants hail from Taiwan, including the two who received the harshest 15-year sentences. The cases are part of a massive wave of telephone scams sweeping China, with tens of millions of dollars stolen.
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Catalonia heads to the polls to elect a new regional parliament, after the previous one was dissolved for declaring independence from Spain.
Alt-left extremists in the Spanish region of Aragon are suspected of leaving a 55-year-old man brain dead after brutally attacking him because he wore suspenders that had Spanish flags on them. The attack occurred in the city of Zaragoza on early
The National Court of Spain has stripped the Family Planning Federation – a division of the International Planned Parenthood Federation – of its designation as a “public service organization.”
The British territory of Gibraltar could be excluded from a Brexit transition deal and the European Union’s (EU) Single Market unless the UK works to agree a specific arrangement with Madrid, a Spanish government source has threatened.
People smugglers in Morocco are now offering African migrants an “all-inclusive” smuggling package which includes a flight to Casablanca and passage to Spain. Despite the slowdown of the Libyan migrant route, people smugglers have continued to operate their businesses by
Police have shot a man who sparked a terror alert near Spain’s border with France when he shouted the Islamist war cry, “Allahu Akbar” at a motorway checkpoint.
MADRID (AP) — Spanish authorities say around 500 migrants have been saved by rescue boats as they attempted the perilous crossing of the Mediterranean Sea from Africa.
BRUSSELS (AP) – The prime ministers of Spain and Belgium have held talks over their testy bilateral relations as ousted Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont and four secessionist allies prepare for an extradition court appearance in Brussels. Friday’s court hearing for
