An emergency debate has been held at Westminster on how repatriated powers should be dealt with after Brexit. SNP MPs said the Sewel convention, which underpins the devolution settlement, is now unworkable. The party’s Westminster leader Ian Blackford accused the Conservatives of stabbing Scotland in the back with Brexit legislation. […]
Tory Brexit rebel Dominic Grieve has insisted he is seeking a “sensible compromise” to prevent a fresh showdown in the Commons over Parliament’s role. On Wednesday, MPs will vote on how much of a say they will have – after peers again defeated the government. Mr Grieve said MPs should […]
Brussels sparks a new security row with UK negotiators, after Theresa May warned against “deep-seated ideology”. Britain will be forced to leave the European Arrest Warrant (EAW) deal after Brexit, the EU’s chief negotiator has said. The comments from Michel Barnier will deal a significant blow to the UK government, […]
A huge jellyfish bloom has washed up on beaches across the Malaga region. Authorities in the Malaga region have cleared around 8 tonnes of the gelatinous creatures from the shore between Nerja and Vélez-Malaga and another 3 tonnes between Torremolinos and Mijas after the coastline experience the biggest bloom since […]
EUROPEAN Parliament has agreed to look into a complaint about low-cost carrier Ryanair’s seating families apart. Balearic regional consumer protection office CONSUBAL filed the case after receiving ‘a multitude of complaints’ from travellers, saying this practice went ‘against the rights of customers’. According to CONSUBAL, passengers on Ryanair flights travelling […]
SPAIN’S new minister of public works, José Luis Ábalos has announced plans to scrap the tolls on three motorways when their franchises come up for renewal this and next year. The previous national government had pledged to do so, but appeared to be backtracking, and other promises relating to essential […]
Spain’s new Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said Monday he wants jailed Catalan separatists leaders and Basque separatist group ETA prisoners to be moved to prisons in their home regions. Moving the prisoners would satisfy demands made by Catalonia’s two separatist parties and the Basque Nationalsit Party (PNV) which helped Sanchez topple […]
Spain’s second-biggest bank BBVA on Monday said it had agreed to sell a property loan portfolio in Spain with a gross value of 1 billion euros ($1.16 billion) as it further reduces its non-performing assets from its balance sheet. A source close to the matter identified the buyer as the […]
A LUXURY Benidorm apartment block plans to ban holiday rentals in its building. The Poniente beach project will aim to “strictly guarantee its residential use” to “avoid it being used as a hotel,” a spokesperson said, by not allowing any rentals that are less than two months. Delfin Tower promoters […]
The Socialist Party government of Pedro Sánchez should have enough support in parliament to pass law including the transfer of the dictator’s grave. Spain’s new government will be able to count on a majority in Congress for a proposal from the Socialist Party (PSOE) to move the remains of former Spanish […]
Almost half of the 630 migrants that were rescued from the Mediterranean and arrived in Spain’s port of Valencia at the weekend want to seek asylum in France, the Spanish government said Monday. The migrants arrived in Spain on Sunday in three vessels, including the rescue ship Aquarius, after being turned away by […]
Tory rebels “could collapse the government” if they vote against a Brexit deal negotiated with the EU, a leading rebel has said. Dominic Grieve said he wakes up “in a cold sweat” thinking about what could happen if a final deal is rejected. But he suggested rebels would not back […]
