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.
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.
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.”
My 80-page Paper published in October, reduced to a post of 900 words. Tagged to the 40th anniversary of the referendum on the democratic constitution.
Spain accepts deal on Gibraltar, clearing way for Brexit agreement.
Trial of Catalan independence leaders set for early 2019.
Tackling corruption would add €10 billion a year to Spain’s GDP, says report.
OECD and IMF downgrade growth, European Commission questions fiscal deficit.
Main banks pass EBA’s stress test in adverse scenario.
Spain and UK ‘close to agreement’ on post-Brexit deal for Gibraltar.
Andalucía in snap election in December.
Socialists pave way for 2019 budget approval in deal with far-left Podemos.
Economy losing steam, IMF warns on pensions, questions deficit reduction
Saudi Arabia opens Spain-built high-speed rail linking Mecca and Medina.
William Chislett 