Catalan separatists and their rivals sketched their battle plans Monday after the independence movement claimed victory in a divisive vote, plunging Spain into political uncertainty ahead of national elections. Groups…
Four decades after the death of dictator Francisco Franco, Spain has not completely turned the page on his dictatorship as dozens of monuments honouring his regime are still scattered across…
At one of the night bars in Madrid's central Lavapies neighbourhood, the staff feel hopeful that business is about to get better. "People never stopped coming here" during Spain's six-year…
When Juan Antonio Cabrero started to create a small solar power station in Spain, he did so because he believed the government's promise that the future lay in solar energy.…
Catalan secessionists on Wednesday trumpeted a region-wide pro-independence demonstration as a huge success, saying they had sent a strong signal to the Spanish government, which opposes a referendum on independence.…
Patients at Madrid's Princesa hospital try to force their way into the emergency consulting room, impatient after hours of waiting. A security guard restores order. Some yell at the nurse.…
There are neither salespeople nor cash counters in the "free shop" in an abandoned block of flats in Madrid. Anyone can walk in, drop off goods they no longer use,…
It can be argued that extra-judicial interventions first by Ghulam Mohammad as Governor General in 1951 and later by military regimes and disregard of the Constitution - facilitated by either…
After nearly four decades in power, Spain's King Juan Carlos is being drawn into a corruption scandal rocking the foundations of the monarchy. An investigating judge Saturday questioned Inaki Urdangarin,…
Spain keeps repeating that it will not pump any more public money into its ailing banks, but the likelihood of that happening is growing by the day. If using public…
