Why Spain’s Left missed the chance to unite ahead of November’s snap electionSpain’s Left has missed its last chance to unite ahead of the snap election on 29 November — a historic failure, not so much because the numbers don’t add up, but because it now fails to offer an alternative.
Danish prime minister Mette Frederiksen lashed out again at Spanish leader Pedro Sánchez on migration during a summit debate in Brussels on Friday.
As the EU enters an unprecedented electoral supercycle, the question is whether it can defend its integrity as the forces challenging it gain influence over its institutions.
Do you remember the Yellow Vests movement that shook France 2018? On TikTok, a young user has called for a national mobilisation on 17 October against the cost of living, and the video quickly went viral. So could the Yellow Vests make their big return?
There is a jarring disconnect between EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen’s insistence on European values and the rules-based order – and the bloc’s willingness to throw the right to asylum out the window.
Disappeared Moroccan migrants are likely “in the thousands” after a sudden wave of arrivals hit Ceuta. But despite the human tragedy, the EU leaders’ main focus this week will be how to fortify borders.
Some 23 percent of Spain’s working population were immigrants, who were “paying taxes and [contributing to] pensions for everyone,” said the MEP, ahead of a snap election dominated by its housing crisis and the Ceuta migrant crisis.
Spain is heading for early elections, after Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez called a snap vote last week. According to current polls, the conservative People’s Party, or PP, is ahead of Sánchez’s Socialists, while Vox is also making significant gains. What would happen if they governed together?
Drone attacks on commercial ships in the Black Sea point to a 360-degree threat of Russian hybrid attacks, covering also the EU’s southern and eastern flanks.
Spain’s Pedro Sánchez has called snap elections for 29 November, after parliament rejected his housing decrees, giving him a hot-button political issue for his election platform. But polls favour the opposition centre-right People’s Party, which may need the far-right Vox to govern. And the loss of Sánchez would be a big blow for the centre-left in Brussels.
Italy brought back border controls with Spain in August, and has now extended them until at least 15 October, as more EU countries introduce checks.
The Spanish government strengthens tenants’ rights amidst pressure from hundreds of protesters in Madrid.
Mainstream parties might assume that this new age of insecurity will work in their favour. But If Europe’s security environment continues to deteriorate as voters head to the polls in 2027, mainstream leaders should not assume that geopolitics will do the political work of containing the far-right for them.
The EU Commission says its ‘omnibus’ bill published on Thursday (10 September), will build on the special legal status that the so-called ‘outermost regions’ of the 27-member bloc have.
Ceuta’s migration crisis is becoming a gift to Spain’s (and Europe’s) far-rightCeuta’s migration crisis is putting Spain and the EU under growing pressure. With little concrete support from Brussels and conditions still tough on the ground, frustrations are rising — and Spain’s far-right Vox is making the most of it ahead of the 2027 elections.
The crisis in Ceuta is far from resolved: with thousands of migrants and a humanitarian crisis still plaguing its streets, the mayor of the small autonomous community came to Brussels to solicit the assistance of the EU.
THIS WEEK: Von der Leyen woos Greenland with fresh EU funds, as Ceuta crisis comes to BrusselsAs Ursula von der Leyen woos Greenland with millions in fresh EU funding, Ceuta’s embattled leader arrives in Brussels to warn the EU against Morocco’s “trusted” partnership and accuse Madrid of abandoning his besieged enclave.
The EU Commission is considering a request by Spain for a permanent mission of EU border agency Frontex and police agency Europol in Ceuta.
Sánchez and the EU have decided that Morocco relations are too big to failMorocco appears to have turned Europe’s summer migration crisis into a strategic victory. As European leaders, including Pedro Sánchez, downplay Rabat’s alleged role in the Ceuta crossing, Morocco is tightening its grip on Europe’s trade, migration and Western Sahara policies — while simultaneously drawing closer to Trump’s America.
People desecrating churches and setting others on fire are among the bogus videos that have been circulated on social media platforms such as Elon Musk’s X in the wake of the mass crossing of migrants into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta.
