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The Local Spain · Spain · 2026-09-19T09:05:32+00:00
New legislation proposed by the European Commission this week seeks to make the recognition of professional qualifications easier for non-EU citizens, a common complaint of many who've moved to the bloc from abroad.
The Local Spain · Spain · 2026-09-19T08:54:19+00:00
International headlines have been made this week by the EU and Canada announcing their mutual intention to form a deeper relationship. Mandy Pipher, The Local's resident Canadian, examines whether her compatriots would actually accept tighter ties with Europe.
The Local Spain · Spain · 2026-09-19T08:22:58+00:00
In this week’s Inside Spain we look at the habits you can adopt to achieve a life expectancy as long as Spaniards', the highest in the EU for many years now. And we're not just talking about the Mediterranean diet.
El País English · Spain · 2026-09-19T04:00:00+00:00
The Irish star of ‘Sherlock’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ talks to EL PAÍS about playing the meteorologist behind the Normandy landings in ‘Pressure’
El País English · Spain · 2026-09-19T04:00:00+00:00
Professor Angel Dust was a key figure in the Catalan nightclub scene of the 1990s. He recounts how he became entangled in ‘a sinister plot,’ ending up in prison surrounded by drug traffickers and murderers
El País English · Spain · 2026-09-19T04:00:00+00:00
The most controversial and cryptic of the Beat writers, the author was an unrepentant, legendary junkie (and, allegedly, an accidental killer). Today, there is renewed interest in his books, at a time when separating the work from the novelist is becoming increasingly difficult
El País English · Spain · 2026-09-19T04:00:00+00:00
The Portuguese author writes compulsively, but he lets his manuscripts sit in a drawer for years. Translated into 70 languages, Saramago once said of him: ‘It’s not natural to write so well. You feel like punching the guy. They’ll give him the Nobel Prize for sure’
El País English · Spain · 2026-09-19T04:00:00+00:00
The writer, who has published a new novel after the success of ‘Shuggie Bain,’ doesn’t believe that the US will improve after Trump’s departure. ‘He has already sown the seeds of hatred,’ he says
El País English · Spain · 2026-09-19T04:00:00+00:00
President Claudia Sheinbaum is celebrating a reduction in homicides of over 50%. However, experts urge caution when looking at the statistics, and demand that more attention be paid to the big picture
El País English · Spain · 2026-09-19T04:00:00+00:00
The United States is willing to dismantle one of the pillars of the postwar world order: the inviolability of international borders
El País English · Spain · 2026-09-19T04:00:00+00:00
Brussels wants to build its own capabilities in semiconductors, cloud computing and artificial intelligence as it seeks greater technological sovereignty from the US and China
El País English · Spain · 2026-09-19T04:00:00+00:00
EL PAÍS spoke with a dozen migrants from Cuba, Honduras, Brazil and Colombia who were sent by the US to Africa and remain in a legal limbo with scant medical assistance and no knowledge of what will happen to them
El País English · Spain · 2026-09-18T19:38:54+00:00
The Mexican president says there has been progress, one week before a planned bilateral negotiation over the USMCA trade agreement
El País English · Spain · 2026-09-18T14:15:52+00:00
A Cuban immigrant has had to change her appearance after ending up in ICE custody. The Trump Administration has stripped rights from trans people in detention
El País English · Spain · 2026-09-18T12:40:53+00:00
The Netanyahu government had until now boycotted the formation, with which it now seeks to build ‘a political bridge’
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