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Published in: 50.50: OpinionWhy we’re suing the Spanish government
Spain is the only EU country to block Women on Web, which offers vital abortion information that the state has long...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Spain’s political laboratory – from 15-M to Podemos: an interview
From the Spanish left’s response to financial crisis against austerity, to Black Lives Matter and reclaiming the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?At the open grave: dealing with the legacy of Franco’s terror in today’s Spain
“As I write this (September 15) the Spanish government has issued a draft bill: the Valle will undergo a process of...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Marathon Man and 'our European Way of Life'
The migration debate ignores the political question of why hundreds or thousands of underage and adult people are...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Don't take music for granted – what I learnt from the Spanish singer Leiva
His music brings hope in times of Covid, but his message highlights the financial plight of this collapsing business.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?National stereotypes in times of COVID-19: the ‘frugal four’ and the ‘irresponsible South’
When EU leaders discuss the coronavirus Recovery Fund at the upcoming meeting of the European Council on Friday,...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Spain’s new minimum income scheme: a victory and a historic failure
This could be the most significant test of Spain’s fairness as a society.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Yemen’s war and the blackout in the Spanish press
“Public opinion in western countries has been quite incapable of applying the necessary pressure to cut our ties...
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Published in: Countering the Radical RightSpain’s radical right party might need some recovery from the coronavirus
Neither widespread popular disaffection with the government nor equally widespread disenchantment with the European...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Coronavirus, fake news, and the future of the Spanish left
Coronavirus has offered a taster of what is to come in this parliamentary term for the PSOE-Podemos coalition.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?On the edges of democracy: mobilizing health and care as a common good
In the moment of the ‘corona crisis’, autocratic tendencies are cropping up, hitting those who are the least...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Galicia: Spain’s forgotten stateless nation
What do the Galicians want? 47 people leave Galicia every day. But they won an MP in the November election, who can...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Europe’s migration tourniquet comes full circle
For every asylum application that was accepted in the EU last year, two were rejected. Anti-migration rhetoric has...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The rise of the far right in Spain
A revival of far-right sentiment is currently gripping Spain.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Catalonia mon amour
In which the author goes in pursuit of sanity, and is forced to take a stand.
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Published in: Countering the Radical RightVOX and the rhetoric of gender violence
The far-right party’s behaviour has been very controversial, to say the least, in many aspects concerning women’s issues.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Spain’s response to protests is a dangerous step towards authoritarianism
“The reality is a democratic mass movement increasingly frustrated with successive governments who have sought...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Catalonia and the paradox of unity
“This polarisation between two forceful pressures towards unity is leaving many people like me without any options.” Español
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Mortal remains: Spain and the legacy of Franco
The removal of Franco’s body following 16 years of campaigning and legal battles can only be a first step on the...
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Published in: Countering the Radical RightThe memory of Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still alive
Those who defend statues meant to assert dominance have yet to learn the lessons of the past.