Spain

Lamine Yamal on and off the pitch

An anachronous highlights reel of the young Spanish footballer, told through six scenes. Panenka, a Spanish football culture publication with a strong cultural and realpolitik bent, guest spots in Gatopardo, a...

How did Spain introduce a policy to provide IVF for all women – regardless of their marital status or sexuality?

The 2016 policy is being replicated across the country, and provides valuable lessons for reproductive healthcare globally A decade ago, the Health Minister of the Catalan government Toni Comín announced...

Ashes to ashes

Read how the discovery of 17 tombs from the Iron Age has sparked the curiosity of archaeologists in a small village of rural Navarre We are used to thinking of...

When your doctor is an algorithm

How AI is quietly reshaping Spanish healthcare Artificial Intelligence is no longer a future prospect in Spanish healthcare. It is already examining patients, prioritising cases, and shaping diagnoses, often without...

When memory is resistance: a daughter remembers Columbia’s violent history

Natalie Munevar’s story of her father’s enforced disappearance exposes the enduring wounds of Colombia’s political violence. Through memory, she demands justice and confronts the silence imposed by fear and impunity...

Breaking Barriers, Building Bridges

The story of Basque grassroots association helping migrants cross the frontier between Spain and France We have grown all too accustomed to the harrowing stories of migrants trying to cross...

Lives Parked on the Valencia F1 Circuit

On the grounds of an abandoned racetrack, an organised yet precarious settlement the Spanish city of Valencia would rather not see What was once a showcase for speed and spectacle...

Freedom by Numbers

More than 200 court rulings in 2024 cite an algorithm that classifies foreign prisoners without ties as high risk, even if they lack other risk factors In 1993, two beekeepers...

The Quiet Revolution of Intergenerational Care

How older Spanish hosts and migrant youth are reshaping what ‘home’ means, one shared kitchen at a time What does it mean to be seen, not as a threat or...

Feminising the rural idyll

In Spain, women are challenging the traditionally gendered norms of rural life. Since time immemorial, life in the countryside has depended on sharply defined gender roles. The gruelling labour of...

A Basque paradox

The Basque country is full of industrial relics, and hungry for industrial land. What’s going on? “Buy land, they’re not making it any more”, the American author Mark Twain is...

Warm waters, closing nets

How climate change is driving dolphins into deadly contact with fishing fleets in the Bay of Biscay In this article for the French daily newspaper Libération, journalist Julie Renson Miquel reports...

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