https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Spain in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Upcoming rule changes to the UK's new ETA border system have angered dual national Brits, but updated travel guidance from the government and a major airline suggests those without valid British passports may be allowed entry - as long as they have an expired UK passport. https://www.thelocal.es/20260220/can-dual-national-brits-travel-to-uk-without-valid-british-passport-after-all Fri, 20 Feb 2026 12:07:00 +0100 can-dual-national-brits-travel-to-uk-without-valid-british-passport-after-all If you wish to give up British citizenship - here's how to do it, how much it costs and how, in some cases, you can get it back. https://www.thelocal.es/20260218/how-uk-dual-nationals-in-europe-can-renounce-british-citizenship Wed, 18 Feb 2026 16:34:18 +0100 how-uk-dual-nationals-in-europe-can-renounce-british-citizenship A judge has named three former ETA leaders as suspects over their alleged role in the group's 1997 kidnapping and murder of a politician that traumatised Spain, court documents showed Friday. https://www.thelocal.es/20220708/judge-summons-basque-eta-ex-bosses-over-1997-murder Fri, 08 Jul 2022 19:17:58 +0200 judge-summons-basque-eta-ex-bosses-over-1997-murder A decade after Basque separatist group ETA renounced the use of arms, the northern Spanish region is still trying to turn the page on decades of bloodshed. https://www.thelocal.es/20211019/wounds-persist-in-spains-basque-country-a-decade-after-eta-ended-armed-struggle Tue, 19 Oct 2021 11:52:22 +0200 wounds-persist-in-spains-basque-country-a-decade-after-eta-ended-armed-struggle A Paris court on Wednesday acquitted the former Basque separatist leader Josu Ternera on charges of participating to a terrorist organisation, citing insufficient evidence in the case. https://www.thelocal.es/20210901/french-court-acquits-basque-eta-leader-of-spain-terror-charges Wed, 01 Sep 2021 17:21:24 +0200 french-court-acquits-basque-eta-leader-of-spain-terror-charges While politicians remain at loggerheads, the arts bring resolution to the Basque Country's long history of violence, writes Caroline Gray. https://www.thelocal.es/20190808/patria-how-a-remarkable-novel-is-helping-spain-come-to-terms-with-the-basque-countrys-violent-past Thu, 08 Aug 2019 14:55:42 +0200 patria-how-a-remarkable-novel-is-helping-spain-come-to-terms-with-the-basque-countrys-violent-past Tributes paid to two members of the Basque separatist group ETA when they left jail sparked outrage Tuesday in Spain, prompting the government to called for an investigation. https://www.thelocal.es/20190730/new-outcry-in-spain-as-tributes-paid-to-freed-basque-terrorists Tue, 30 Jul 2019 19:37:02 +0200 new-outcry-in-spain-as-tributes-paid-to-freed-basque-terrorists A fugitive former leader of the Basque separatist group ETA was arrested in France on Thursday, Spain's interior ministry said, after more than 16 years on the run. https://www.thelocal.es/20190516/fugitive-ex-leader-of-eta-detained-in-france-spain-interior-ministry Thu, 16 May 2019 11:10:08 +0200 fugitive-ex-leader-of-eta-detained-in-france-spain-interior-ministry The former head of the political wing of Basque separatist group ETA, known as "Antza", has returned to Spain a free man after completing his jail sentence in France, police said Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.es/20190123/top-ranking-former-eta-boss-returns-to-spain-a-free-man Wed, 23 Jan 2019 19:12:42 +0100 top-ranking-former-eta-boss-returns-to-spain-a-free-man Tens of thousands of people demonstrated in the Basque Country on Saturday demanding that prisoners linked to the former armed separatist group ETA be transferred to jails closer to the northern Spanish region. https://www.thelocal.es/20190113/thousands-demand-transfers-for-eta-prisoners-in-basque-protest Sun, 13 Jan 2019 10:05:36 +0100 thousands-demand-transfers-for-eta-prisoners-in-basque-protest ETA may be history but the dilemma of what to do with prisoners linked to the former armed separatist group stirs passions in the Basque Country, where a protest in their favour is due Saturday. https://www.thelocal.es/20190111/fate-of-eta-prisoners-divides-spain Fri, 11 Jan 2019 14:14:18 +0100 fate-of-eta-prisoners-divides-spain The European Court of Human Rights said Tuesday that it had ruled against Spain over a 2010 trial of Basque militants who claimed they had been denied a fair trial. https://www.thelocal.es/20181107/european-rights-court-faults-spain-over-biased-2010-eta-case Wed, 07 Nov 2018 11:11:41 +0100 european-rights-court-faults-spain-over-biased-2010-eta-case In its last internal newsletter before it dissolved, ETA said it had killed 758 people in its decades-long campaign for independence, a newspaper that was once the Basque separatist group's mouthpiece revealed on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.es/20181107/details-emerge-of-basque-separatist-group-etas-attacks Wed, 07 Nov 2018 11:02:09 +0100 details-emerge-of-basque-separatist-group-etas-attacks The prime ministers of France and Spain marked their countries' "victory" in fighting ETA in Madrid on Monday, five months after the Basque separatist group disbanded, leaving at least 853 dead in its wake. https://www.thelocal.es/20181002/spain-and-france-mark-victory-against-eta Tue, 02 Oct 2018 10:19:00 +0200 spain-and-france-mark-victory-against-eta Antton Lopez Ruiz spent over 26 years in jail for his deadly militancy in Basque separatist group ETA. While that part of his life is over, his desire for independence is still very much alive. https://www.thelocal.es/20180929/after-years-in-jail-ex-eta-militants-still-root-for-independence Sat, 29 Sep 2018 16:10:15 +0200 after-years-in-jail-ex-eta-militants-still-root-for-independence As the director of a peace museum in Spain's Guernica, the Basque town infamously destroyed during the civil war, Iratxe Momoitio has often heard young visitors ask a surprising question. https://www.thelocal.es/20180715/remembering-eta-in-basque-country-a-divisive-challenge Sun, 15 Jul 2018 14:19:32 +0200 remembering-eta-in-basque-country-a-divisive-challenge Spain's new Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said Monday he wants jailed Catalan separatists leaders and Basque separatist group ETA prisoners to be moved to prisons in their home regions. https://www.thelocal.es/20180619/ew-spain-pm-to-move-catalan-basque-prisoners-closer-to-home Tue, 19 Jun 2018 11:10:07 +0200 ew-spain-pm-to-move-catalan-basque-prisoners-closer-to-home With the end of ETA, the struggle for independence in Spain's Basque Country falls to left-wing separatist parties which have not yet fully distanced themselves from its bloody legacy. https://www.thelocal.es/20180505/eta-legacy-haunts-leftist-basque-separatist-parties Sat, 05 May 2018 12:10:58 +0200 eta-legacy-haunts-leftist-basque-separatist-parties ETA, the former Basque militant separatist group, has officially dissolved. But Basque separatism is still a strong political force. https://www.thelocal.es/20180504/eta-dissolved-but-basque-separatism-remains Fri, 04 May 2018 11:04:00 +0200 eta-dissolved-but-basque-separatism-remains Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said Thursday there would be "no impunity" for ETA's crimes even though the Basque separatist group has committed to fully disbanding after more than four decades of violence. https://www.thelocal.es/20180503/spain-pm-says-no-impunity-for-eta-after-dissolution Thu, 03 May 2018 15:52:34 +0200 spain-pm-says-no-impunity-for-eta-after-dissolution