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WATCH: All the footage of Policia Nacional officers during Barcelona protests Spain ‘DOES NOT want you to see’

https://twitter.com/AlbanoDante76/status/1185588967066001409 THESE are some of the scenes of alleged unprovoked police violence during protests over the Catalunya issue from the past week.  In the widely shared...

Mayor in Spain facing calls to resign after Gibraltar border incident which saw Spanish officer drive onto the Rock...

THE fallout from the Gibraltar border 'incident' which saw a Spanish officer drive an official car onto the territory continues.  Now the mayor of El...

Poll predicts far right Vox will be THIRD LARGEST political party in Spain just days ahead of general election

VOTERS in Spain have taken a swing to the right just days ahead of a fresh general election. According to the latest SocioMetric survey for...

Expenses scandal in Spain’s Andalucia after politicians used Bla Bla Car app to charge riders for trips to work

TWO Andalucian politicians have been forced to resign after becoming involved in an expenses scandal involving the use of the BlaBlaCar travel app.  Luis Cano...

Britain on track for Brexit election in December after Corbyn backs poll

The Lib Dems and the SNP have already said that are willing to back a December election.

Britain’s new ambassador to Spain Hugh Elliott talks cricket, Brexit and his Costa del Sol holidays in an exclusive...

As well as dispelling Brexit fears around tourism, Elliott also revealed his own Spanish holiday habits, in a wide-ranging conversation

Suspicions abound after young university graduate spends €40,000 on Facebook adverts aggressively targeting all rivals of conservative Partido Popular...

A SLEW of fake Facebook pages have spent tens of thousands of euros bashing the rivals of the conservative Partido Popular. An investigation by El...

Spain’s conservative PP party funds ‘Cambridge Analytica-style’ dirty ad campaign targeting left wing voters in run-up to election

Advertising was ‘distributed in neighbourhoods that traditionally support the PSOE or United Podemos’

Spain’s Andalucia is ‘in the eye of a Brexit Hurricane’ warns regional government document

The UK accounts for 7% of Andalucia’s sales to the rest of the world, meaning that the region is especially susceptible to the fallout of Brexit.

Spain’s moderate Ciudadanos party in CRISIS as its voters leave in droves to support far right Vox in snap...

Vox is set to gain 14% of the overall vote, after the PP in second place (21.2% and 91 seats) and the left wing PSOE first (27.3% and 121 votes)

GROUNDHOG DAY: Spain headed for FOURTH ‘hung parliament’ in FOUR years as new poll suggests no alliance will reach...

A new survey by Ipsos has predicted that no party or coalition will gain the absolute majority of 176 seats needed to form a government this Sunday

UK police in diplomatic pickle after calling Spain’s arrest warrant for Catalan separatist leader ‘disproportionate’

British authorities have since backtracked on the comments, trying to pass them off as a misunderstanding.

LONG READ: 30 years since Berlin Wall fell, populism is the new divide that endangers our response to the...

Populism is the wall blocking serious action to tackle today's environmental crisis says Olive Press editor Jon Clarke as he remembers the fall of the Berlin wall 30 years ago this month.

SPAIN ELECTIONS 2019: Who’s contesting it? What do they want? Who will win?

Spaniards are heading to polling booths for the fourth time in four years this weekend as voters hope to bring an end to the country’s political stalemate. But what are the main parties all about?

As Spain’s General Election looms, Heather Galloway recalls her day watching Franco be exhumed from his Madrid tomb

As we watched, alongside me there were murmurings of indignation and rage

OPINION: Predictions that Spain’s far right Vox party could become kingmakers in today’s elections are worrying for expats and...

In 2016, their current leader controversially unfurled a giant Spanish flag on the rock of Gibraltar, an act he was willing to be arrested for

Voter turnout drops as Spain heads to polls for fourth general election in four years

Voter turnout at 14:00pm today was recorded at 37.93%, 3.6 points less than in April, reflecting Spaniards’ apathy at yet another election

Polls close for Spain general election with socialist PSOE set for slim win and far right anti-immigrant Vox predicted...

Voter turnout was last calculated at 6pm, when it was put at 56.8%, four points lower than on April 28

Far right and anti-immigrant party Vox win big in British expat hotspots on Spain’s Costa del Sol

SPAIN'S far right party Vox has emerged from today's general election as the third biggest political force in the country.  Running on a campaign which...

HUNG PARLIAMENT: Spain’s socialist PSOE wins election but no party has absolute majority

A left wing block of the PSOE, Podemos and Mas Pais only adds up to 159 seats, 17 short of a majority

British expats abroad can vote in the December general election – here’s how

BRITISH citizens residing outside the UK can vote in the upcoming general election scheduled for December 12. However, there is one caveat: you must have...

Ciudadanos leader Albert Rivera resigns after shocking performance in Spain’s general election

CIUDADANOS leader Albert Rivera has resigned today after his centre-right party was almost wiped off the map in yesterday's general election. The C's, as its...

Spain’s far right Vox party wins most votes in Murcia at Spanish General Election

Turnout at the general election, which was narrowly won by the PSOE, was only 73.53%, three percentage points down from the April elections

British expat visiting family in Spanish-plated car told to ‘f**k off back to Europe’ by road rage driver in...

A BRITISH man visiting family in his Spanish-plated car has been told to 'f**k off back to Europe' by a road rage driver in...

Popular gay bar owner ‘fearful’ of growing far right and Vox after ‘noticeable spike’ in homophobic attacks in LGBT...

As a gay man and owner of a gay bar in the LGBT-friendly resort on Spain’s Costa del Sol, he has never felt unsafe, until now

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