Spain

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Spain’s conservatives lost more than half their seats in parliament by trying to outbid the far-right.

The far-right Vox party has adopted Trump-style politics.

The upstart far-right party is unapologetically Islamophobic, but without donations from Iranian exiles, it may have never gotten off the ground.

The country’s agricultural heartland prepares for a possible Vox victory.

The country’s snap election on April 28, its third in five years, may just be the prelude to another down the line.

From Poland to Iceland, citizens’ groups are taking matters into their own hands and bringing about genuine political change from outside the party system.

In this month’s election, the choice could boil down to a government influenced by a xenophobic party or one under constant threats by separatists.

The Spanish government seems to think the British overseas territory will sacrifice its sovereignty for the sake of convenience after Brexit. It is wrong.

In Gibraltar, a British territory, 96 percent of the population voted against Brexit, but they are also adamantly opposed to joint rule by Spain. It might be time to reconsider.

Spain has long resisted the rise of the far-right, because Basque and Catalan separatism animated nationalist passions—but the rise of Vox in Andalusia shows that the country is not immune from xenophobic politics.

New leadership in Madrid and Barcelona seemed to offer hope of a resolution to the Catalan secession crisis. But both sides are digging in rather than making compromises.

On the podcast: Javier Cercas’s new book on the man who impersonated a Holocaust survivor.

Francisco Franco ran Spain with an iron fist for decades—and created myths about his rule that are only now starting to come undone.

The new Spanish prime minister has refused to follow Italy in a race to the bottom, but that doesn’t mean that Madrid will lead the EU to adopt more humane migration policies.

The 2017 crisis in Catalonia tore the country apart. The new Spanish prime minister will need to fend off rivals and manage alliances to stay in power long enough to heal the wounds.

Albert Rivera is tearing down his country’s establishment from the middle. Just don't call him Spain's Emmanuel Macron.