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The Spanish festival has returned only to be met with condemnation from animal rights groups.

Why have we forgotten about the moral case for tighter Covid restrictions? Asks one reader.

A legal bid by McDonald’s to build a drive-through in close proximity to some ruins in Rome has been ended by Italy's highest court.

Liz Truss, Yolanda Díaz, Valérie Pécresse, Mamata Banerjee, Andrew Bailey. Just some of the names we think will make the headlines in the next 12 months ... for better or worse

Planting oaks preserve Spain's traditional landscape - and the planet.

The Spanish earth groans with horrors a modern mind struggles to comprehend, yet which were buried there within the lifetimes of our grandparents.

Philosopher NIGEL WARBUTON on the link between those who are cruel to animals and violence against humans.

Janus Boye, a Social Democrat in Denmark, has earned himself a new nickname after the sun faded out the first and last letters of his name on a poster.

PETER BARRON on his visit to Spain’s largest livestock fair, now in its 568th year.

News that you might have missed from around the continent, selected by Steve Anglesey.

Pictures emerged showing the winner posing with other models in the colours of the opposition.

PETER BARRON on a night spent at a monastery, where he met one of Spain’s most revered figures

Can the rise in intolerance in Europe be attributed to dog-whistle politics, or is there more to it?

News that you might have missed from around the continent, selected by Steve Anglesey.

Food writer JOSH BARRIE brings readers a recipe from a Michelin star chef, known for her Galician dishes

News that you might have missed from around the continent, selected by Steve Anglesey.

Amid the bloodshed of the 20th century, it remains all but forgotten. But what became known as the Disaster of Annual, 100 years ago this summer, shaped Spain’s traumatic century.

EMMA LUCK on how tax breaks, pandemic management and ambitious studio plans are helping Spain film its way to recovery in the shadow of Covid-10.

PETER BARRON on the joys of renovating a crumbling barn in rural Extremadura... during the pandemic... while more than a thousand miles away

In his latest diary from Extremadura, PETER BARRON describes the village next door which first lured him to Spain

Dotted along the north west coast of Africa, the residue of Spanish empire – two sizeable cities – lies at the heart of a summer of high tension Monte Hacho, the hill that rises above the Spanish city of Ceuta on the North African coast, is often cited as one of the Pillars of Hercules […]

Lili Alvarez was not only one of the greatest tennis players of her era but also a tireless campaigner for equality... not to mention champion car racer and skier

The weirdest stories in Europe: The pub waiter who says he's a Spanish royal, and a corpse rides for six hours on a Swiss tram

New columnist PETER BARRON is a former Newsnight editor turned tech executive, who has been renovating a barn near Fuentes de León in remote southern Extremadura. From there, he will be writing a regular diary on Spanish life, cuisine and culture A couple of years ago, we turned up for Corpus Christi wearing shorts. It was a […]

Prime minister Pedro Sánchez’s government will pardon the nine jailed leaders of Catalonia’s failed 2017 independence bid.  During a speech in Barcelona’s opera house attended by around 300 members of Catalan civil society, he said “I am convinced that getting these nine people out of prison is a clear message of concord.” Twelve separatist leaders […]

Problems are mounting for thousands of Britons in Spain and the rest of Europe who chose not to apply for residency after Brexit It has been a gloomy week on the sunlit uplands of sovereign Britain… and also in the parts of Europe where UK ex-pats (because people are only called ‘migrants’ when they don’t […]

Nothing will better define this European club football season than Diego Simeone’s Atlético Madrid upsetting Real and Barcelona to win La Liga When we come to analyse the European club season that ended with Chelsea’s deserved victory in the Champions League final, nothing will better define the fight against adversity – the empty stadiums, the pandemic, […]

Luis Ocaña was a lion of a cyclist, yet his was a life seemingly cursed by fate They say that in sport, as in life, you make your own luck. One man who might disagree with that statement, and with some vehemence, is Luis Ocaña. Despite being one of the greatest cyclists Europe ever produced, […]

An anti-lockdown politician has young crowds chanting her name in the streets and the ruling Socialists on the run As midnight struck on Saturday hundreds of young people headed for the Puerta de Sol in downtown Madrid to celebrate the lifting of Spain’s state of emergency. They danced congas and partied like it was New […]

How Seve Ballesteros hauled golf from its safe, gin-soaked, cliquey complacency into a thrillingly glamorous spectacle There aren’t many golfers who have played a shot so brilliant, so miraculous even, that a commemorative plaque is installed on the spot, but then there haven’t been many golfers like Seve Ballesteros. Even at his best it would have been […]

Britons living in Spain are being turned away from Covid vaccine centres after not having the correct post-Brexit medical documentation, it has been claimed. British newspapers report that local authorities are turning away those without valid European Health Insurance Cards (EHIC) or Global Health Insurance Cards (GHIC) and that do not have private health insurance. That is despite […]

The tiny football club of Eibar has defied gravity by staying in the top flight for six years. But its luck looks like finally running out. Never mind the ongoing travails of FC Barcelona, another, sadder, story of downfall in Spanish football is being played out, as the end of the La Liga season nears. […]