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Catalonia

March 2024

  • People at a Barcelona protest against the amnesty carry effigies of Pedro Sánchez and Carles Puigdemont

    Spanish congress passes amnesty law for Catalan separatists

    Passing of bill will come as relief for PM Pedro Sánchez, who has gambled his political future on the concession
  • A pharmacist in Barcelona, Spain, shows a menstrual cup to Helena Herranz, an 18-year-old student.

    Catalan pharmacies hand out free reusable period products

    Move by Spanish regional government to tackle period poverty will benefit about 2.5m people
  • The ruins of a church sit several metres above the water level of a reservoir

    ‘It makes me so sad’: church re-emerges from reservoir as Spain faces droughts

    Increased evaporation, shorter rainy seasons and less mountain snow cover are set to worsen water crises in the western Mediterranean

February 2024

  • PP president Alberto Núñez Feijóo at a campaign rally for the regional elections in Lugo, Galicia, Spain

    Spain’s PP leader shocks party by backing conditional pardon for Carles Puigdemont

  • Dried-up reservoir bed.

    Catalonia declares drought emergency, extending restrictions to Barcelona

January 2024

  • Demonstrators protest outside the European parliament in Strasbourg against Pedro Sanchez’s draft amnesty law

    Spanish parliament rejects amnesty bill for Catalan separatists

  • Catalan town of Ripoll

    EU investigates claims Catalan town council blocking immigrants’ access to basic services

December 2023

  • Catalan figurines

    Excretion’s greetings: the pooping Christmas caganer figurines of Catalonia

  • A caganer squatting on a present wrapped in brown paper, a fishmonger with a carp in a net and Donald Duck standing on a present.

    Donald Duck, carp in a bath and squatting statuettes: Christmas quirks across Europe

November 2023

  • A protest outside Pedro Sánchez’s party’s HQ in Madrid on 15 November 2023.

    The Observer view on Pedro Sánchez’s election deal to take power: it undermines democracy

  • Pedro Sánchez was reelected as prime minister with the support of 179 lawmakers in the 350-seat parliament. The support of two Catalan separatist parties was key to his winning the confidence vote.

    Pedro Sánchez is back … now Spain’s PM must make his daring gamble pay off

  • A Spanish flag flies over the Plaza de Cibeles, where a large crowd is gathered

    Rally held in Madrid against Catalan amnesty after Sánchez sworn in as Spanish PM

  • Sánchez is preparing for a second term after his socialist party regained power by agreeing to a deeply controversial amnesty for Catalan separatists

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    Pedro Sánchez sworn in as prime minister after night of protest – video report

  • Sánchez prepares for fraught second term as PM after Catalan amnesty

  • Pedro Sánchez defends Catalan amnesty law as ‘demonstration of strength’

  • Acting Spanish PM on verge of second term after controversial Catalan amnesty deal

  • The Guardian view on an amnesty deal for Catalan separatists: Pedro Sánchez is right to gamble again

  • Spain’s People’s party urges EU to intervene over Catalan amnesty law

  • Spain is losing trust in politics. This backroom Catalan deal won’t restore it

    María Ramírez
  • Fresh protests held across Spain over amnesty deal for Catalan separatists

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