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Treatment of Catalan musician Hasél prompts debate over country’s penal code
Pro-independence camp comes out on top despite Socialists winning most single-party votes
Pro-independence politicians look north for strategy ahead of Sunday’s regional polls
Ruling Socialists take a political gamble as the country battles record number of coronavirus cases
Changes form part of commitments Madrid must make in return for EU recovery funding
Spanish officials expect temperatures to plunge further and fear biggest test yet to come
Alberto Garzón is one of the most vocal republicans to sit in the cabinet post-civil war
Passage of plans to spend €27bn from EU recovery fund strengthens PM Pedro Sánchez’s hold on power
Madrid says it will spend all of the approximately €140bn it is due to get from EU recovery fund
Removal of reference to Spanish as medium of instruction is seen by some as insidious threat to the state
Leftwing government wants to increase public investment to fight inequality
Keeping free movement would give British territory closer ties to EU than when it was part of bloc
Madrid seeks to borrow €27bn against future grants before their formal approval by Brussels
Prime minister Sánchez set to capitalise on failure of move by rightwing Vox party
Clash comes shortly after Isabel Díaz Ayuso and PM had agreed to work together on crisis response
Pandemic strategy in chaos as judges rule restrictions violate rights
Government aims to reverse exodus of healthcare professionals abroad to plug staffing gap
Attempt at national consensus fails as regional administration says it does not consider move legally valid
Imminent restrictions likely on virtually all of Madrid and other cities as cases rise
Unanimous verdict against Quim Torra is set to bring forward elections in divided region
Pedro Sánchez willing to reactivate emergency powers used during first lockdown
Strict new local quarantine rules from Monday as Spain struggles to control new coronavirus wave
Provisions in the draft bill include a plan to offer Spanish citizenship to the International Brigades’ descendants
Prime minister Pedro Sánchez lays down gauntlet for regional governments to deal with upsurge
The nation is paying a high price for the political stability it enshrined in 1978
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