The Euro Zone opinion
Keeping at arms' length
Spain's PM Pedro Sánchez issued a royal decree permanently banning exports to and imports from Israel of all military equipment this week. Columnist Mark Nayler delves into the detail
The Euro Zone opinion
Spain's PM Pedro Sánchez issued a royal decree permanently banning exports to and imports from Israel of all military equipment this week. Columnist Mark Nayler delves into the detail
The Music Maker opinion
Coming from a land where any tradesman worth his salt expects a homeowner to offer a minimum of five gallons of tea per day to anyone plying their trade on their property, columnist Peter Edgerton assumed it was international law to do so
The Bottom Line opinion
There are some WhatsApp conversations that last longer than some relationships, writes columnist Ana Barreales
The Bottom Line - opinion
Along with the possibility of losing regular clientele because of these new laws, this measure could also have a considerable knock-on effect on tourism
The Music Maker - opinion
Local village bars are great places to catch the zeitgeist on current affairs and the death of Robert Redford was hot off the press last night
The Euro Zone - opinion
In order to fulfil his promise to pass a national budget next year (the first since 2022), Pedro Sánchez is going even further than usual to satisfy Catalan separatists
Opinion
When Spaniards hear the word “fosa", it evokes mass graves filled during and after the Civil War, where ideology and violence buried not only bodies but also memory
Extra Argentina Vibra
Argentina Vibra: the festival bringing the Río de la Plata spirit to Spain
No real action is being taken against preventable wildfires in Spain despite tragedies occuring every year, writes Denise Bush
Around here Spain's regular postal service can be - how might we put this? - unpredictable. If that wasn't enough, private delivery companies are considerably worse, writes columnist Peter Edgerton
The Euro Zone - opinion
Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez's meeting with the UK's prime minister Keir Starmer at Downing Street last week prompted a lot of excited talk in the British press - and comparisons too, writes Mark Nayler
The Bottom Line - opinion
Stories once held up as proof of Canadian enlightenment now treated like contraband, hidden away from children "for their protection"
The Music Maker - opinion
Such is the atmospheric majesty of the Icelandic landscape, a 2022 survey suggested that nearly half of the population believe in the country's indigenous elves, or Huldufolk (hidden folk) - supernatural beings that live all around in nature
The Euro Zone - opinion
Is Sánchez right to say, as he did back in April, that the country is no longer the "European exception that left aside those who fall into a situation of vulnerability"?
The Euro Zone opinion
Begoña Gómez, the wife of Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez, is charged with having personal assistant Cristina Álvarez perform duties related to her job as a director at Madrid's Complutense university, as well as to her responsibilities as the prime minister's wife
The Music Maker opinion
"Why didn't somebody tell me that years ago?" asks columnist Peter Edgerton about two nuggets of knowledge he has recently come across