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Who is Alvise Perez? The UK-educated, former LibDem supporter turned alt-right influencer whose party won 800,000 votes and 3 seats at the EU elections in Spain

HE went to university in Leeds, was once a member of the Liberal Democrats, and has been likened to both Javier Milei, the firebrand populist

11 Jun, 2024 @ 17:28

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What is Manos Limpias? The organisation in Spain which accused the prime minister’s wife of ‘influence peddling’

DESPITE being officially registered as a trade union, the Manos Limpias group at the centre of the corruption scandal engulfing Spain’s Prime Minister would perhaps

25 Apr, 2024 @ 14:22

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Spain and the UK ‘are days away’ from signing a post-Brexit Gibraltar deal as negotiations enter ‘sensitive phase’, claim sources

THE UK and Spain are on the verge of signing a post-Brexit agreement over the future of Gibraltar, according to sources close to the negotiations.

9 Apr, 2024 @ 10:21

Gibraltar·Lead·Politics

Catalan president says an independence referendum is ‘inevitable’ during speech in Spanish parliament

CATALAN President Pere Aragones warned his political rivals that a new independence referendum was ‘inevitable’ during a speech in Spain’s parliament on Monday. Addressing the

9 Apr, 2024 @ 09:52

Catalunya·Lead·Politics

‘I’m a little nervous’: Ex-darling of the left in Spain Pablo Iglesias prepares to open a bar in Madrid after leaving the world of politics

PABLO Iglesias, the former leader of the Spanish leftist Podemos party, has admitted he is “a little nervous” ahead of the opening of his new

19 Mar, 2024 @ 16:39

Lead·Madrid·Politics

Spain looks to pass new temporary wealth tax to help fight inflation after the Ukraine war, its treasury minister said

SPAIN’S left-wing coalition government is hoping to slap a two-year tax on the richest 1% of the population by next year to fight inflation, its

22 Sep, 2022 @ 18:53

Lead·Madrid·National News

nadia Calviño at Madrid leaders forum @_minecogob

Spain’s Economy Minister walks away from photo shoot where she’s the only woman

SPAIN’S Economy Minister, Nadia Calviño, refused to pose for a photo at the Madrid Leaders Forum in protest at being the only woman in the

11 May, 2022 @ 18:45

Lead·National News·Politics

Pedro Sanchez gets his 2022 budget plans passed in Spain's lower house of parliament

Spain proposes legal reform that could see adults ‘drafted’ and assets seized if crisis hits

SPAIN’S Socialist government is proposing new legislation that gives the state extraordinary powers if and when a state of crisis is declared. The changes to

7 Jul, 2021 @ 17:02

Lead·National News·Politics

Junqueras and catalan separatists released from jail Photo: Esquerra Republicana

Pardoned Catalan separatist leaders walk out of jail… and immediately demand independence from Spain

THE nine Catalan separatist leaders who walked free from prison on Wednesday after a controversial pardon by the Spanish government appeared not to have lost

23 Jun, 2021 @ 20:01

Catalunya·Lead·Politics