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    • Thursday, 16 June, 2022
      Special ReportSustainable Mobility
      Spain bets green hydrogen will be more than a bubble

      The country wants to be a European hub for the zero-carbon fuel but must first overcome financial and practical hurdles

      Building work at Iberdola plant, with white storage tanks and green pipework
    • Monday, 16 May, 2022
      News in-depthEU energy
      Europe’s push to plug its energy gaps

      Infrastructure ‘pinch points’ are making it more difficult for the EU to move away from Russian oil and gas

      A Gazprom technician works at the gas export monopoly’s Sudzha compressor station, January 14, 2009. Ukrainian state energy company Naftogaz on Wednesday declined a request by Russia’s Gazprom to supply almost 100 million cubic metres to the Balkans and Moldova, instead proposing alternative routes.  REUTERS/Denis Sinyakov  (RUSSIA)
    • Tuesday, 10 May, 2022
      Spanish politics
      Spain’s intelligence chief sacked over Pegasus spyware crisis

      Paz Esteban fired after phones of prime minister and Catalan politicians allegedly breached using surveillance software

      Paz Esteban speaks at event in Madrid
    • Tuesday, 23 November, 2021
      Prime property
      Barcelona limbo: local rules to keep property affordable put development on hold

      High-end housing is in low supply, causing sales and prices to rise fast

    • Wednesday, 20 October, 2021
      European banks
      Orcel renegotiated exit deal from UBS to unlock pay awards, court hears

      Italian banker’s efforts revealed during hearing over Santander’s decision to cancel CEO offer

    • Friday, 23 July, 2021
      Coronavirus economic impact
      Ibiza’s hopes of summer-long party crashed by resurgent Covid crisis

      Businesses on tourism-reliant Spanish island forced to adjust to ever-changing travel rules

      Ibiza Town
    • Wednesday, 21 July, 2021
      Iberdrola SA
      Iberdrola examines spinning off its offshore wind business

      Spanish group considers future of the business amid the global shift to clean energy

      An Iberdrola offshore windfarm in the UK
    • Tuesday, 20 July, 2021
      Brexit
      EU stance on Gibraltar talks provokes UK anger

      Raab says Brussels’ draft mandate undermines sovereignty and violates terms agreed with Spain

      People at the airport in front of the Rock of Gibraltar
    • Sunday, 4 April, 2021
      Coronavirus
      Europe’s third wave: ‘It’s spreading fast and it’s spreading everywhere’

      Hospitals fill up across the continent as new variant proliferates and vaccine shortages bite

      A nurse tends a hospital patient
    • Friday, 2 April, 2021
      News in-depthSpanish politics
      Madrid restaurateurs laud regional president in fight against Covid curbs

      Isabel Díaz Ayuso has been reluctant to impose tight restrictions on hospitality sector

    • Friday, 19 February, 2021
      Spanish politics
      Jail sentence for rap artist ignites Spanish free-speech protests

      Treatment of Catalan musician Hasél prompts debate over country’s penal code

    • Tuesday, 5 January, 2021
      News in-depthCoronavirus economic impact
      EU recovery plan faces bottleneck, economists warn

      Biggest beneficiaries from fund have poor record in using cash from Brussels

      Mural in Barcelona, Spain, in November 2020
    • Monday, 4 January, 2021
      Coronavirus treatment
      EU countries in blame game over sluggish vaccine rollout

      Inoculation rates across bloc lag behind those of UK, US and Israel

    • Thursday, 31 December, 2020
      Brexit
      Spain and UK agree deal to keep Gibraltar land border open

      Agreement will in effect make Gibraltar part of the EU’s Schengen free-movement area

    • Tuesday, 29 December, 2020
      Gibraltar
      Gibraltar and Spain seek Brexit deal to avoid hard border

      Negotiations have stalled over how frontier between British territory and EU will be policed

    • Friday, 30 October, 2020
      Eurozone economy
      Eurozone economic rebound leaves output below pre-pandemic levels

      Fresh social restrictions are likely to undermine recovery in the rest of the year

    • Thursday, 29 October, 2020
      European prime property
      Covid-19 causes a split in Marbella’s holiday home market

      While mainstream sales are slowing, wealthy buyers are drawn to the resort’s luxury developments   

    • Tuesday, 1 September, 2020
      Coronavirus: free to read
      Europe’s fractured contact tracing linked to post-holiday Covid-19 surge

      Experts forecast another virus peak due to holidaymakers’ ‘return contagion’

      A smartphone in Berlin showing a contact-tracing app launched by the German health ministry. But an effective pan-European approach has yet to be established
    • Friday, 14 August, 2020
      European prime property
      Bid for Madrid — the rise of luxury residences

      Developers hope to revitalise faded parts of the city but coronavirus travel disruption makes it a gamble

    • Friday, 7 August, 2020
      Spain
      Hero to pariah: Juan Carlos’ exile sparks anger in Spain

      Legal woes have forced former king into exile and tarnished the monarchy in crisis-stricken country

      A woman walks past graffiti in Valencia depicting the country’s former king Juan Carlos, who announced this week he was to ‘leave Spain’
    • Thursday, 6 August, 2020
      Spanish economy
      Spanish employers face dilemma over furloughed workers

      Madrid under pressure to extend scheme beyond September as tourism suffers fresh hit

      Tourists wheel luggage down Las Ramblas in Barcelona. Spain’s tourism-dependent economy has been hit by a resurgence of coronavirus cases.
    • Monday, 3 August, 2020
      Spain
      Ex-king Juan Carlos to leave Spain following scandals

      Probe prompts extraordinary postscript to reign of monarch once féted as a hero of democracy

    • Friday, 31 July, 2020
      Coronavirus economic impact
      Travel bans bring fresh misery to Spain’s Costa del Sol resorts

      Spate of European travel curbs has thrown already battered tourism industry into chaos

    • Tuesday, 28 July, 2020
      Coronavirus: free to read
      Europe battles to contain surge in Covid-19 cases

      Experts surprised at how fast the lifting of restrictions led to a rise in infections

    • Tuesday, 28 July, 2020
      Spanish economy
      Spanish job losses hit record high in second quarter

      More than 1m people fell out of employment as economy struggled to recover from lockdown

      People queue outside an employment centre in Madrid, Spain, as the economy struggles to recover from pandemic-related lockdown.
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