Spain’s new Socialist Workers’ Party government has announced it is seeking to dismantle the razorwire fences which protect the borders of Ceuta and Melilla, the country’s two exclaves on the North African coast, from mass crossings by illegal migrants.
Spain’s new Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has made waves in his first two weeks in office, taking in the misbegotten migrant ship Aquarius after it was shunned by Italy and cracking down on the Catalan independence movement.
Contents: Spain’s offer to take in Aquarius migrants is rejected as dangerous to migrants; Italy cries victory, portending a growing EU migrant crisis this summer
MADRID (AP) — Socialist leader Pedro Sanchez will become Spain’s new prime minister after a no-confidence vote Friday in parliament unseated Mariano Rajoy’s conservative government. He came in vowing to address the “social emergencies” of the country’s citizens after years of austerity measures.
MADRID (AP) — Opposition Socialist leader Pedro Sanchez has won a vote to replace Mariano Rajoy as prime minister, in the first ouster of a serving Spanish leader by parliament in four decades of democracy.
