EU designation of Gibraltar as a ‘colony’ angers UK.

Spain, the EU country with the most at stake in Venezuela’s crisis.

Sánchez calls snap election for 28 April.

Televised trial of 12 Catalan separatists begins.

Parliament’s rejection of 2019 budget complicates deficit target.

ACS wins €2 billion UK high-speed train contract.

Inside Spain (20 December – 21 January 2019)

Spain received half of all undocumented migrants who crossed the Mediterranean.

Right-wing coalition to rule Andalucía, with support from anti-immigrant VOX.

Spain holds its position and score in EIU Democracy Index.

Government to take another shot at getting 2019 budget approved.

Inditex and Mercadona rise in global retail ranking.

Spain’s 20 years in the euro: a beneficial straitjacket

China promises to re-balance trade with Spain.

Far-right enters Andalusian parliament, dislodging the Socialists from decades of rule.

Jailed Catalan secessionists on hunger strike, one hospitalised.

Spaniards positive about their 40 years of democracy, with some misgivings.

Government plans military spending of €7.3 billion.

My post for Oxford University Press, the publisher in 2013 of my book on Spain in their series “What Everyone Needs to Know.”