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As Spain found out at its last election, voting for change is one thing, but achieving it is quite another.
The mountain village of Novara di Sizilia, Italy.
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When villages across Spain, Portugal and Italy are abandoned, the regions’ unique culture and heritage is lost, too.
Chris Goldberg
If Britain votes to leave, residents of the Rock won’t come along quietly.
Blockade of Toulon by Thomas Luny.
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The British blockade of France wouldn’t have worked if it wasn’t for an ingenious experiment conducted half a century earlier.
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Proposed labour reforms in France have sparked mass protests led by young people who want to reclaim democracy from the elite.
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A long time before their recent landmark concert in Cuba, The Rolling Stones played Spain: less than a year after the death of General Franco.
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More than two months after the election, Spanish politicians still can’t provide the people with the government they demanded.
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Parliamentarians have again failed to form a coalition, nearly three months after the election.
The heart of the matter.
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Presumed consent is not the way forward.
Modern enough?
Robin Irvine
Spain’s most controversial sport has been in strife lately. But anthropologist Robin Irvine explains why a year working on a bull-breeding estate made him optimistic for its future.
In the Netherlands, the tradition goes that Sinterklaas lives in Madrid, wears a red clerical robe and a bishop’s mitre, and has servants called ‘Zwarte Pieten’ (Black Peters).
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The celebration of Christmas has distinct variations around the world, with many of these local traditions arising from particular historical circumstances.
The PP, celebrating while it can.
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Spain’s two-party system is now consigned to the history books – but forming a functional government will be anything but easy.
Spain’s ruling People’s Party is predicted to win the election – but not by much.
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Spain’s era of two-party government is coming to an end – but what exactly happens next is far from clear.
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Organ donation rates in the UK are at an all time low. Could this be the solution?
Flashmob Flo6x8 taking their flamenco protest to the bank.
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A group of performers is using music and dance to highlight inequality, austerity and racism in Spain.
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October 16 is traditionally a day in which the Spanish nation is celebrated. But questions are being asked about what that nation is these days.
Here goes nothing.
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Catalonia’s pro-independence parties now have the chance to assemble a parliamentary majority, but they’ll have to overcome their own differences first.
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Denied a chance to hold a referendum, the pro-independence movement are calling the region’s parliamentary elections a plebiscite.
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The language survived against the odds and is now a central part of Catalan identity.
Tilting at 21st-century Spain?
Vitold Muratov
Over 500 years ago, first Jews and then Muslims were expelled from Spain. This summer, Spain’s Parliament invited the former back but not the latter. Here’s what Cervantes might say to his countrymen.