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María Ramirez

María Ramirez

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A prime minister defending immigration? It can happen. It just did here in Spain

The Spanish prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, recently read in parliament a newspaper article from Venezuela about a battered boat that had just arrived...

25.10.2024 20

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Will the UK ‘give up’ Gibraltar next? In Spain, we’re more worried about Brexit’s absurdities

A few hours after the British government announced that it was giving up control of the Chagos Islands and handing sovereignty to Mauritius, Fabian...

10.10.2024 20

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Carles Puigdemont’s escape antics may look comic. But he is Spain’s version of Donald Trump

An egotistical and polarising rightwing election loser addresses his adoring supporters in a speech, casting himself as a victim and questioning...

09.08.2024 30

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Catalans once longed for freedom from Spain. Now that doesn’t look so appealing

16.05.2024 100

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The Pedro Sánchez crisis makes it clear: Spain’s politicians are playing with fire

Pedro Sánchez has built a reputation as a successful political gambler, but suspending public duties and threatening to resign, as he did last week,...

30.04.2024 20

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How did a Spanish chef gain a hotline to the White House?

José Andrés is perhaps the most influential Spaniard in the world right now. After the Israeli drone strike that killed seven people who worked for...

13.04.2024 20

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Is Spain’s late-night lifestyle a precious part of our culture – or should we be more like sensible Sweden?

Spain’s employment minister and deputy prime minister, Yolanda Díaz, described the late opening hours of restaurants and bars, earlier this month,...

15.03.2024 50

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What will Spain look like when it runs out of water? Barcelona is giving us a glimpse

Walking through Barcelona these days, you can’t miss the signs and billboards picturing a red plastic bucket and the message “Water doesn’t fall...

15.02.2024 100

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EU citizens are being kicked out of the UK. In Spain we’re asking: why not treat British people the same way?

Four years after the UK officially left the European Union, you can still be taken aback reading about Brexit’s self-defeating, if sometimes...

18.01.2024 200

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Optimism isn’t very ‘European’ – but in 2024, let’s celebrate these reasons for hope

José Manuel Barroso, the former prime minister of Portugal and former head of the European Commission, used to say that Europeans were in love with...

02.01.2024 10

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In Spain, we don’t share Britain’s migration panic – ‘stop the boats’ has few fans here

In the first 10 months of 2023, more than 43,000 migrants and refugees landed on the Spanish coasts. Most of them reached the Canary Islands in small...

18.12.2023 100

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