The same Morocco that just clashed with Spain over mass migrant crossings is now at the centre of a murky World Cup final deal that could keep Infantino in charge until 2031.
Ceuta’s leadership contends with the effects of last week’s mass migration arrival, with unaccompanied minors facing the toughest of conditions
The EU’s migration chief rallied behind Spain on Tuesday following an emergency meeting on the border storming of the Spanish enclave Ceuta, saying that there was “full solidarity” with Madrid.
The mass crossing of thousands of migrants into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta could damage years of increasingly close relations between Brussels and Rabat.
The rules of Schengen got a spotlight over the weekend as rightwing leaders clamoured to close the EU’s free movement area to Spain. Here is why this isn’t possible, and why Italy’s one-way suspension is fleeting
Spain’s North African enclave had long been a migrant hotspot, with its local sea known as a ‘cemetery’ to locals. But a sudden increase in arrivals on Thursday, leaving 27 dead, has prompted EU talk of freezing Schenegen travel freedoms.
Under the current EU budget, social spending through ESF+ amounts to nearly €96bn. According to internal calculations made by European Parliament services, total social spending could fall under the next MFF to between €63bn and €87bn.
Despite a strict ban in Spain on products from the illegally-occupied territories, three Israeli agricultural giants are openly boasting about shipping dates and nuts to the country — often relying on local suppliers and major supermarket brands to quietly reach Spanish shelves.
With one of the EU’s last openly left-wing migration agendas and a high-profile clash with Donald Trump over the Middle East, Sánchez’s fight for survival in Madrid could reshape Europe’s political balance in 2027.
From Delhi to Jaipur, India is rolling out facial-recognition technology to monitor millions of its citizens. Investigate Europe has found that behind much of the software is Spanish company Herta Security – but critics argue the government promise of public safety is not the main aim.
Faced with the end of the EU’s post-pandemic fund, the bloc’s leaders are using the cash to finance new sovereign investment funds.
Nato pledged billions more for Ukraine and vowed to contain Russia and Iran. Although Donald Trump’s musings about quitting Europe militarily and strong‑arming allies over Greenland underlined how dependent the continent’s security still is on a single, volatile, leader.
Pedro Sánchez: EU hero or Spanish problem?Many outside observers see Sánchez as a left-wing EU hero, but scandal fatigue has eroded his standing inside Spain.
Despite being one of China’s main economic allies in Europe, Spain’s prime minister has urged Beijing to take steps to reduce its ‘unsustainable’ trade deficit with the EU.
Appeasement has not prevented Donald Trump from temporarily suspending military aid to Ukraine, repeatedly threatening sweeping tariffs on European exports, or even suggesting the use of force to annex the sovereign territory of a Nato ally – Greenland. It has not prevented the US from launching a military operation against Iran that risks undermining European security, empowering the Kremlin, and potentially triggering a global economic downturn.
To be or not to be (involved) — that is the questionIs the UK involved in the US-Israeli attack on Iran – or is the UK *not* involved in the US-Israeli attack? The answer (apologies to Shakespeare’s Hamlet) seems to be: depends upon who you ask?
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The far-right’s unity unravels when the debate shifts from domestic grievances on migration and climate-change denial to foreign policy. Nowhere is this clearer than in their response to the US-Israeli war of choice in Iran. Far-right parties across Europe are divided – both internally and among themselves – over how to respond to the US-Israeli war of choice in Iran – and so are their voters.
Water-resource conflicts already happening in Spain, Ireland and the Netherlands will only worsen now that the EU Commission plans to triple data centre capacity in Europe over the next five to seven years. Little thought has been given to the oligopolistic cloud market and how it will evolve if the EU triples its data centre capacity.
A court ruling has just ordered the city of Madrid to create a registry of doctors in the region who refuse to perform abortion procedures. Are there still many of these conscientious objectors in Spain and across Europe?
Unable to defend European interests, unwilling to hold Washington and Tel Aviv accountable, and therefore impotent in the face of great-power predation. This failure is not merely moral — it is strategic.
