EU politics
Euronews – EU supports repatriation of unaccompanied migrant minors from Ceuta to Morocco
Cruelty towards children has become official EU policy. Read the article HERE.
Spain
Geopolitics
Matilde Rosina – Ceuta shows how migration can be weaponised: but numbers are falling, not rising
The fallout from Ceuta has much more to do with politics than it does the reality of the EU’s external borders Dr Matilde Rosina is Lecturer at Brunel University London and Visiting Fellow at the […]
Climate Crisis
Chris Bambery – Spain is struggling to cope with climate breakdown
Whether it is wildfires, floods or droughts, Spain’s climate has become increasingly extreme and the southern European country is moving from one ecological crisis to the next. Chris Bambery is an author, political activist and […]
Climate Crisis
Al Jazeera – France and Spain brace for heatwave that could worsen raging wildfires
We are well beyond the point of predicting how climate crises will compound and multiply one another: it is happening in Europe now. Read the article HERE.
Climate Crisis
Reuters – Spain’s largest wildfire of the year burns for a fifth day as new heatwave looms
Summers in Spain now see just about the whole country go up in flames, as fires rip through dry and unmanaged rural land like a knife through hot butter. Read the article HERE.
Energy
Jan Rosenow – Spain just became one of Europe’s cheapest power markets. Here is how.
Interesting article on why Spain has electricity prices half the EU average. In Jan Rosenow’s Substack. Read the article HERE.
Geopolitics
PBS – Spain closes airspace to U.S. planes involved in Iran war
Another significant step away from US hegemony, still many more steps to go mind you. Read the article HERE.
EU politics
Katie Hudson – How far-right culture is being normalised again in Spain
There has never been a fascist taboo in post-Franco Spain as there has been in Germany, but the prevalence of fascist nostalgia and rhetoric used to be limited to a tiny fringe. Now it’s becoming […]
Solutions
Pablo Castaño – Spain Shows Another Immigration Policy Is Possible
Spain’s regularisation of undocumented migrants, introduced on the back of a major grassroots campaign, is an important victory for equal rights and against racism. In ‘Jacobin’. Read the article HERE.
Geopolitics
Politico – Pedro Sánchez wants Israel banned from international sporting events
This could be a watershed in the boycott Israel movement in Europe. Read the article HERE.