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The Euro Zone

Grand tour

Columnist Mark Nayler argues that António Costa’s grueling EU tour is proving to be a political nightmare rather than a dream holiday

Mark Nayler

Please please me

Columnist Peter Edgerton on the perils of overusing 'por favor' and the art of polite Spanish

Peter Edgerton

Adding fuel to the fire

Columnist David Andrews examines the complex history and dangerous political rhetoric behind the ongoing Ceuta border crisis

David Andrews
  • The Nuestra Señora del Pilar Reformatory in San Fernando de Henares (Madrid), where Inmaculada died – pictured here in her First Communion dress – and the authors of the book.

    ‘She committed three sins: being a woman, coming from a very humble family, and being a lesbian’

    A book recounts the life and strange death in 1983 of a woman from San Pedro Alcántara, whose death brought about the end of the Franco-era institution that confined ‘wayward’ women and which continued to operate well into the democratic era; the cause of her death remains a mystery

    Cristina Vallejo
  • The former prison in Malaga during the rehearsal of a scene featuring an explosion.

    Disney's Far Cry series starts filming in Malaga starring Steve Buscemi

    Rehearsals and pyrotechnics are under way at the former Cruz del Humilladero provincial prison in Malaga for the major FX and Disney production of video game adaptation Far Cry

    Paco Griñán Málaga
  • Swedish wine in the Swedish vineyard.

    Vendimia 2026

    The wine without sun but with love

    Local winemakers often boast about their wines and claim that theirs are better than all the others. But which ones? French, Italian, or perhaps… even Swedish

    Alekk M. Saanders Ystad