Spain’s former king pays tax penalty after credit card controversy

Juan Carlos, facing several probes into his finances, has been in self-imposed exile in UAE

Spain’s new memory law to help search for Franco’s victims

Law will make state responsible for identifying victims and pave way for probes into abuses

Former Spanish minister faces grilling from Argentinian judge over deaths

Rodolfo Martín Villa will testify via video over allegations of 12 killings

Juan Carlos, Spain’s disgraced ex-king, confirmed to be in UAE

Guessing game at an end as to whereabouts of elusive 82-year-old former monarch

The Irish Times view on the self exile of Spain’s former king: A vertiginous fall from grace

Last week, Juan Carlos tried to protect the institution he had created by abandoning the country he claimed it served

Whereabouts of Spain’s ex-king Juan Carlos shrouded in mystery

Dominican Republic says it has no record of arrival of royal, who left under cloud of scandal

Former Spanish king to go into exile over financial allegations

Juan Carlos had abdicated in favour of his son Felipe six years ago following scandals

EU’s undiplomatic diplomat seeks third way between US and China

Veteran Spanish Socialist Josep Borrell argues the EU27 need to become self-sufficient

Spanish far-right killer extradited from Brazil

Detainee took part in infamous transition-era massacre in Madrid in 1977

Far right surging as Spaniards go to polls yet again

Catalan instability overshadows Spain’s fourth election in four years

Spain’s reckoning with its past shows Francoism is far from dead

Reburial of dictator’s remains has raised questions about the legacy of his regime

Cries of ‘long live Franco!’ as remains of Spanish dictator exhumed

General’s body removed from state mausoleum and taken for reburial in cemetery near Madrid

Spain finally deals with ‘black past’ as Franco faces exhumation

Dictator’s remains due to be transferred from mausoleum to cemetery

Pro-independence Catalans willing to play long game in wake of verdict

Their anger is voiced through continuing wave of demonstrations that began Monday

Verdict due on politically charged Catalan court case

Social backlash and Madrid clampdown expected as leaks suggest tough jail sentences

Brexit’s other border: Gibraltar braces for change

Vast majority of frontier workers are Spanish

The Irish Times view on exhuming Franco: A battle over memory

The Spanish government has justice on its side as it revokes the ‘pact of forgetfulness’

Franco’s body can be exhumed, Spanish court rules

Spain’s supreme court dismisses objections of dictator’s family to reburial

Spanish judges to rule on Franco exhumation

Under government plan, dictator’s body would be reburied in a less divisive site

Spanish war veteran Bob Doyle honoured with Dublin plaque

Communist activist, who died in 2009 aged 92, was born in Smithfield

Vatican diplomat accuses Spain of ‘bringing Franco back to life’

Nuncio criticises Socialist government plan to exhume remains of dictator

Former Eta leader arrested in France after 17 years on run

Josu Ternera wanted in connection with 1987 bombing that killed 11 in Zaragoza

Spain’s prime minister calls snap election for April 28th

Election announced after parliament voted down budget from minority government

Angry scenes mar Spanish prime minister’s Barcelona visit

Madrid government claims trip will boost chances of Catalan solution

Spain’s left seeking to dismantle Franco legacy with legal moves

Anniversary of dictator’s death marked as exhumation controversy continues to rage

Vatican denies Spanish claim about Franco burial

Madrid hoped church would help solve conundrum over dictator’s exhumation

Spain in quandary over exhumation and reburial of dictator

Franco’s remains could end up in Madrid cathedral, making it a mecca for extremists

Spanish PM threatens legal action over plagiarism claims

Pedro Sánchez’s doctoral thesis is ‘a piece of rubbish’, says newspaper

Brexit: May and allies stick with Chequers plan

Leavers realise EU exit in March without a transition period would be catastrophic

Spain grapples with difficult past by agreeing to exhume Franco

Decree means dictator’s remains will be removed from Valley of Fallen mausoleum

Spanish government approves exhumation of Franco’s remains

Removal from mausoleum to proceed despite opposition from dictator’s family

Basque language defies globalisation and enjoys resurgence

Euskera speakers on the rise, although some see it as politically tainted

Fintan O’Toole: The long Irish 19th century is finally over

The Victorian notion of charity is dying, along with Catholicism and Anglophobia

Doctor goes on trial over Spain’s ‘stolen babies’ scandal

Defendent Eduardo Vela tells Madrid court he ‘never gave any baby to anyone’

Court case seeks to shed light on Spain’s stolen babies

Doctor accused of involvement in illegal adoption racket during dictatorship

Spain’s PM calls for removal of Franco’s remains from mausoleum

Pedro Sanchez wants controversial mausoleum turned into reconciliation monument

Pedro Sánchez ousts Rajoy to become Spain’s prime minister

Socialist becomes the new PM with the support of a ‘Frankenstein coalition’

Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy criticised over ‘cut and paste’ condolences

His message sent even more regret “for the loss of human life and material damage” inflicted by the earthquake that struck the Chinese city of Gansu on Monday

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