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 A Spanish navy patrol boat sent to Lampedusa to pick up 15 migrants from the charity rescue ship Open Arms arrived Friday off the southern Italian island, the Spanish government said. https://www.thelocal.es/20190823/spanish-naval-ship-arrives-in-italy-to-take-in-15-rescued-migrants Fri, 23 Aug 2019 17:13:05 +0200 spanish-naval-ship-arrives-in-italy-to-take-in-15-rescued-migrants Spain was Tuesday set to deploy a naval patrol boat to Italy's Lampedusa island to take migrants off a charity rescue vessel that has been stuck at sea for days as Italy refuses it access. https://www.thelocal.es/20190820/spanish-armada-sets-sail-to-save-migrants-stuck-off-italy Tue, 20 Aug 2019 19:20:02 +0200 spanish-armada-sets-sail-to-save-migrants-stuck-off-italy Spain on Monday stepped up criticism of Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini's refusal to allow 107 migrants on board a charity vessel to disembark at an Italian port, calling it "a disgrace to humanity". https://www.thelocal.es/20190820/spain-slams-italyssalvini-over-refusal-to-accept-rescued-migrants Tue, 20 Aug 2019 11:00:26 +0200 spain-slams-italyssalvini-over-refusal-to-accept-rescued-migrants Spain's government offered on Sunday to take in the charity vessel Open Arms with more than 100 migrants on board because of Italy's "inconceivable" refusal to allow it to dock. https://www.thelocal.es/20190818/spain-agrees-to-take-open-arms-migrants-and-italy-refuses Sun, 18 Aug 2019 15:16:31 +0200 spain-agrees-to-take-open-arms-migrants-and-italy-refuses Several more migrants have been taken from the rescue vessel Open Arms for medical reasons to the Italian island of Lampedusa, the Spanish charity which operates the boat said Friday. https://www.thelocal.es/20190817/four-more-migrants-evacuated-from-spanish-ship-open-arms Sat, 17 Aug 2019 11:29:16 +0200 four-more-migrants-evacuated-from-spanish-ship-open-arms Six EU countries have offered to take in some of the 147 migrants stranded on a Spanish rescue ship near the Italian island of Lampedusa. https://www.thelocal.es/20190815/six-eu-countries-volunteer-to-take-in-migrants-stranded-in-mediterranean-waters Thu, 15 Aug 2019 17:46:38 +0200 six-eu-countries-volunteer-to-take-in-migrants-stranded-in-mediterranean-waters Spain on Tuesday refused to consider a request from a Spanish rescue boat that it grant asylum to 31 minors stuck aboard the ship, arguing the demand was not valid. https://www.thelocal.es/20190814/why-is-spain-ignoring-calls-to-take-in-child-refugees Wed, 14 Aug 2019 11:14:10 +0200 why-is-spain-ignoring-calls-to-take-in-child-refugees Rescue charity ship Open Arms received the green light to set sail from the port of Barcelona on Wednesday but will not be allowed to return to the central Mediterranean to save migrants. https://www.thelocal.es/20190417/spain-allows-open-arms-to-leave-port-with-aid-supplies-for-migrants Wed, 17 Apr 2019 16:50:39 +0200 spain-allows-open-arms-to-leave-port-with-aid-supplies-for-migrants Two vessels of a Spanish NGO involved in rescuing migrants in the Mediterranean arrived in the Spanish port of Palma on Saturday carrying a woman found drifting on a deflated dinghy off Libya as well as the bodies of a boy and another woman. https://www.thelocal.es/20180721/spanish-ngo-ship-returns-home-after-dramatic-migrant-rescue Sat, 21 Jul 2018 14:07:40 +0200 spanish-ngo-ship-returns-home-after-dramatic-migrant-rescue The Manchester City coach reached deep into his own pockets to pay the fees to release Spanish NGO Proactive Open Arms rescue boat after it was impounded by Italian authorities, it has emerged. https://www.thelocal.es/20180612/pep-guardiola-paid-150k-to-free-impounded-refugee-rescue-boat Tue, 12 Jun 2018 15:42:39 +0200 pep-guardiola-paid-150k-to-free-impounded-refugee-rescue-boat Ousmann Umar may seem like a role model to fellow migrants, having built a successful new life in Europe after making the dangerous journey from Africa. And yet his sole message to peers today is "don't do it". https://www.thelocal.es/20180606/from-desert-ordeal-to-masters-degree-migrant-offers-cautionary-tale Wed, 06 Jun 2018 11:24:16 +0200 from-desert-ordeal-to-masters-degree-migrant-offers-cautionary-tale