Politics & People news & information for Barcelona

IT'S NOT all sunning yourself by the sea during your sixth-form summer holidays when you're going to be Queen – sometimes you have to spend your down-time going to work. And in full public view, too, knowing...

PRINCESS Leonor has spent her Easter holidays visiting a refugee centre attending to new arrivals from Ukraine – her first official Royal engagement of 2022 and her second since heading off to college abroad.

BARCELONA'S El Prat airport is about to get bigger: Expansion plans costing €1.7 billion are afoot, turning it into a major long-haul international terminal with a high-speed rail connection.

PRINCESS Leonor's presentation of a key awards ceremony in Barcelona was given in fluent catalán and stressed the need for young adults to be given opportunities in life – and, in fact, will probably be the last...

WHEN local elections lead to a draw and inconclusive results – as is often the case – highly-technical negotiations are usually necessary to work out which party or parties will govern and who will become mayor.

A DOZEN people have been arrested and 66 injured, including 30 police officers, during a mass protest today (Friday) over the Council of Ministers meeting held in Barcelona.

A year to the day since the terrorist attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils left sixteen dead and 130 injured, Joan Miró's mosaic of La Rambla in Barcelona has once again been turned into a shrine in tribute to the...

A HANDFUL of beach umbrellas in the colours of the Spanish flag have been set up on the beach in Arenys de Mar (Barcelona province) as a counter-protest against the yellow ribbons in support of Catalunya's...

ANOTHER massive protest took over Barcelona yesterday (Sunday) calling for the release of the nine 'political prisoners' who remain in custody facing charges ranging from sedition and 'violent rebellion'...

BARCELONA'S Mobile World Congress (MWC) opened with an atmosphere of tension after the city's mayoress Ada Colau and Catalunya Parliamentary chairman Roger Torrent announced they would refuse to greet King...

A LINE of over 50 slow-moving cars filled Barcelona this evening (Saturday) hooting and waving Spanish flags in protest over the Catalunya independence movement.

BARCELONA'S mayoress Ada Colau has revealed in a TV interview that she is bisexual and has had several girlfriends since her teens.