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The group has offered to share the posters for free with anyone that wants to use them.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7826088,7703218\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2023//06//23//overtourism-at-the-acropolis-how-is-greece-handling-booming-visitors-numbers/">Overtourism at the Acropolis: How is Greece handling booming visitors numbers? <\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2023//08//16//drunk-american-tourists-caught-sleeping-on-the-eiffel-tower-overnight/">Drunk American tourists caught sleeping on the Eiffel Tower overnight <\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>Is overtourism a problem in the Balearic Islands?<\/h2><p>In 2022, more than 16 million people visited <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2023//08//16//is-this-the-end-of-the-spanish-summer-break-travellers-opt-for-northern-europe-amid-relent/">Spain/u2019s Balearic Islands<\/strong><\/a>. Mallorca alone saw more than a million tourists last year in August alone - more than the island\u2019s entire population. And local statistics institutes are estimating that the number of holidaymakers could peak even higher this year.<\/p>\n<p>Overcrowding is particularly bad during the summer season with wars over resort sunbeds and queues just to set foot on some of the most popular beaches.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-ease-in-up widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6689453125\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//83//69//80//808x542_cmsv2_b60f1bea-86b8-5f66-86f6-c3f27732bd67-7836980.jpg/" alt=\"AP Photo&#47;Francisco Ubilla\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/83\/69\/80\/384x257_cmsv2_b60f1bea-86b8-5f66-86f6-c3f27732bd67-7836980.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/83\/69\/80\/640x428_cmsv2_b60f1bea-86b8-5f66-86f6-c3f27732bd67-7836980.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/83\/69\/80\/750x502_cmsv2_b60f1bea-86b8-5f66-86f6-c3f27732bd67-7836980.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/83\/69\/80\/828x554_cmsv2_b60f1bea-86b8-5f66-86f6-c3f27732bd67-7836980.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/83\/69\/80\/1080x722_cmsv2_b60f1bea-86b8-5f66-86f6-c3f27732bd67-7836980.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/83\/69\/80\/1200x803_cmsv2_b60f1bea-86b8-5f66-86f6-c3f27732bd67-7836980.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/83\/69\/80\/1920x1284_cmsv2_b60f1bea-86b8-5f66-86f6-c3f27732bd67-7836980.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Tourists sunbathe on the beach at the Spanish Balearic Island of Mallorca, Spain.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo&#47;Francisco Ubilla<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Boozy parties and rowdy tourists have been a particular problem for the islands for a number of years. Local councils and the Balearic Government have been <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2023//03//07//mallorca-plans-to-cap-tourist-numbers-as-part-of-efforts-to-crack-down-on-overtourism/">trying to control the situation with stricter rules and regulations<\/strong><\/a> with little success.<\/p>\n<p>Rules for tourists include <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2023//07//28//barcelona-is-banning-smoking-on-all-its-beaches-and-the-rest-of-spain-could-soon-follow/">smoking bans on 28 different beaches<\/strong><\/a> across the islands, a limit on the number of all-inclusive alcoholic drinks they can buy, dress codes for restaurants and resorts as well as fines for not showing up to your dinner reservation.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, the Balearic Government launched a campaign alongside the British Embassy which reinforced a policy of zero tolerance for \u201ctourism in 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weather overnight helps Tenerife firefighters battle wildfire","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Cool weather overnight helps Tenerife firefighters battle wildfire","titleListing2":"Cool weather overnight helps Tenerife firefighters battle wildfire","leadin":"Heatwave conditions have raised temperatures to dangerous levels in northern Africa and Europe.","summary":"Heatwave conditions have raised temperatures to dangerous levels in northern Africa and Europe.","url":"cool-weather-overnight-helps-tenerife-firefighters-battle-wildfire","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Improved weather conditions helped firefighters make advances overnight in their battle to tame a wildfire raging out of control for the past five days on the tourist island of Tenerife in Spain's Canary Islands, authorities said Sunday. \n\n\n\"The night was very difficult but thanks to the work of the firefighters, the results have been very positive\" Tenerife governor, Rosa D\u00e1vila said at a news conference early Sunday. \n\nThe Canary Islands emergency services said in a tweet on the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, that firefighters had been able to work in \"better weather conditions than expected.\" \n\nD\u00e1vila said that more than 12,000 people have been evacuated from their homes since the fire started Tuesday. Up to Saturday more than 8,000 hectares of pine forest had been burned, but D\u00e1vila said that figure was likely to be much higher Sunday. \n\nNo injuries have so far been reported and Davila said that thanks to the firefighters no houses have been burned so far. \n\nThe fire, described as the worst in Tenerife in decades, is threatening 11 town areas flanking the steep and craggy mountain area affected. Access for firefighters is extremely difficult. \n\nThe emergency services said air quality in 19 town areas was not good and urged people to stay indoors when possible and wear masks outdoors. \n\nThe blaze in the northeast of the island is not near the island's main tourist areas. \n\nMore than 400 firefighters and soldiers have been deployed, as well as 23 water-carrying helicopters and planes. \n\nThe Canary Islands have been in drought for most of the past few years, just like most of mainland Spain. The islands have recorded below-average rainfall in recent years because of changing weather patterns impacted by climate change. \n\nSpain's mainland is bracing for another heat wave starting Sunday. Spain's state weather service issued a warning Saturday that temperatures would be on the rise in the coming days, hitting 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) in parts of the mainland. \n\nThe seven Canary Islands are located off the northwest coast of Africa and southwest of mainland Spain. At their nearest point, they are 100 kilometres from Morocco. \n\nMore than 2,000 people were evacuated in a wildfire on the nearby La Palma island last month that affected some 4,500 hectares. \n\nAccording to the European Forest Fire Information System, Spain heads the list of EU countries affected by wildfires so far this year, with 75,000 hectares burned, ahead of Italy and Greece. \n\nSpain accounted for almost 40% of the nearly 800,00 hectares burned in the European Union in 2022, the EU agency said. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Improved weather conditions helped firefighters make advances overnight in their battle to tame a wildfire raging out of control for the past five days on the tourist island of Tenerife in Spain&#039;s Canary Islands, authorities said Sunday. <\/p>\n<p>\"The night was very difficult but thanks to the work of the firefighters, the results have been very positive\" Tenerife governor, Rosa D\u00e1vila said at a news conference early Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The Canary Islands emergency services said in a tweet on the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, that firefighters had been able to work in \"better weather conditions than expected.\"<\/p>\n<p>D\u00e1vila said that more than 12,000 people have been evacuated from their homes since the fire started Tuesday. Up to Saturday more than 8,000 hectares of pine forest had been burned, but D\u00e1vila said that figure was likely to be much higher Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>No injuries have so far been reported and Davila said that thanks to the firefighters no houses have been burned so far.<\/p>\n<p>The fire, described as the worst in Tenerife in decades, is threatening 11 town areas flanking the steep and craggy mountain area affected. Access for firefighters is extremely difficult.<\/p>\n<p>The emergency services said air quality in 19 town areas was not good and urged people to stay indoors when possible and wear masks outdoors.<\/p>\n<p>The blaze in the northeast of the island is not near the island&#039;s main tourist areas.<\/p>\n<p>More than 400 firefighters and soldiers have been deployed, as well as 23 water-carrying helicopters and planes.<\/p>\n<p>The Canary Islands have been in drought for most of the past few years, just like most of mainland Spain. The islands have recorded below-average rainfall in recent years because of changing weather patterns impacted by climate change.<\/p>\n<p>Spain&#039;s mainland is bracing for another heat wave starting Sunday. Spain&#039;s state weather service issued a warning Saturday that temperatures would be on the rise in the coming days, hitting 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) in parts of the mainland.<\/p>\n<p>The seven Canary Islands are located off the northwest coast of Africa and southwest of mainland Spain. At their nearest point, they are 100 kilometres from Morocco.<\/p>\n<p>More than 2,000 people were evacuated in a wildfire on the nearby La Palma island last month that affected some 4,500 hectares.<\/p>\n<p>According to the European Forest Fire Information System, Spain heads the list of EU countries affected by wildfires so far this year, with 75,000 hectares burned, ahead of Italy and Greece.<\/p>\n<p>Spain accounted for almost 40% of the nearly 800,00 hectares burned in the European Union in 2022, the EU agency said.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1692530762,"publishedAt":1692531436,"updatedAt":1692531440,"expiresAt":0,"canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/08\/20\/cool-weather-overnight-helps-tenerife-firefighters-battle-wildfire","images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/83\/45\/26\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_154e1bc5-3d40-59fd-abae-8af60174e176-7834526.jpg","altText":"A helicopter drops water on the flames as the fire advances through the forest 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They are censored and objectified, which is why many artists choose to use them as a weapon of protest. \n\nThe singer Roc\u00edo Saiz has been engaged in this struggle for more than a decade and is \"fed up with receiving threats and insults\" through social networks. \n\n\"There is a very serious problem in this society,\" laments Saiz. \"They have always resented the things we do. That we have jobs, that we think for ourselves, that we vote... And now it bothers them that we do whatever we want on stage.\u201d \n\n\"They don't let us be, they want to control us.\" \n\nFor Roc\u00edo, for Rigoberta... \n\nAs well as a feminist vindication, Amaral's topless performance was an act of solidarity with fellow artists Roc\u00edo Saiz, Rigoberta Bandini and Zahara at a time when these artists are in the spotlight. \n\n\"This is for Roc\u00edo, for Rigoberta, for Zahara, for Miren, for Bebe, for all of us\", said Amaral before removing the top of her dress. \n\n\"From a privileged position that doesn't need any kind of marketing, Amaral has empathised with the compa\u00f1eras who are fighting below\", celebrates Saiz, aware of the risk that artists face because of their activism. She says that it has even earned her some hostility from members of her family. \n\nHer concert during the LGTBI Pride festivities in Murcia was censored. When she took off her t-shirt, revealing her chest - something she has been doing for ten years now - the police stopped the performance and forced her to get dressed. \n\nBut the worst censorship, she says, is unseen kind.\u00a0 \n\n\"There are many female colleagues who have taken a stand and have been penalised. Your name is on the list and you are directly discarded\". \n\nAs for Rigoberta Bandini, she usually shows her breasts on stage when she performs the song 'Ay mam\u00e1' - her entry for Benidorm Fest 2022. It is a clear feminist plea which honours motherhood and breastfeeding, and even if she didn't manage to take it to Eurovision, the song became a hit. \n\nThe song features the following lyrics: \"I don't know why our tits are so scary. Without them there would be no humanity and there would be no beauty. \u201c (\u201c No s\u00e9 por qu\u00e9 dan tanto miedo nuestras tetas \/ Sin ellas no habr\u00eda humanidad ni habr\u00eda belleza... \u201d) \n\nTime has proven her right, evidenced by the wave of criticism and sexist comments that artists suffer every time they show their bodies. \n\nSinger Zahara was criticised by a conservative sector of society for the cover of her album 'Puta' (2021), in which she appears dressed as the Virgin Mary . She was accused of religious offence and the poster for her concert in Toledo was censored after a petition by the ultra-right-wing Vox party. \n\nHowever, her image was a denunciation \"of how we are expected to be perfect, of the pressure we feel to be mothers, of how we are expected to be saints, and of every time we have been called a whore\", Zahara explained during her performance. \n\nThe body as a political weapon \n\nThe video of Amaral, which has been shared and commented on countless times, has reopened the debate on the need in the 21st century for a feminism that shows itself and acts. \n\nSome reactions explain why. \n\nAlthough it was applauded by Spanish social and political figures such as the Minister for Equality Irene Montero and the Vice-President of the Government and Minister for Employment Yolanda D\u00edaz, Amaral\u2019s show also sparked controversy, with hundreds of sexist comments flooding the social networks. \n\nRoc\u00edo Saiz sees a radical involution of the rights of minorities in Spain and a growing hatred of women, racially profiled people, people who challenge heteronormative standards, and immigrants...\u00a0 \n\n\"I think that 21st century men are afraid of losing privileges, of women leaving home, of certain behaviours no longer being allowed\", says the singer and activist. That's why \"their response is violence and fear\". \n\nFor Saiz, it is about \"an ideological struggle of the patriarchy\", one that must be fought with the following weapons: the body, words, books, ideas and education. \n\n\"Whoever thinks that the message is someone only taking off their shirt and showing their tits has not understood anything\", she says. \"What we are trying to say is that we are not allowed to be masters of our bodies.\u201d \n\n\"I do what I want with my body because men do what they want with their bodies.\u201d \n\n","htmlText":"<p>\"No one can take away the dignity of our nakedness, the dignity of our fragility, of our strength,\" said Eva Amaral before removing part of her dress, leaving her breasts exposed.<\/p>\n<p>Her performance at Sonorama Ribera 2023 marked the 25-year celebration of a musical career in the Burgos town of Aranda de Duero, thrilling the audience with songs from her new album and legendary tunes from her career.<\/p>\n<p>It was \"one of the most beautiful moments in the history of the band\", said the Spanish artist, partly due to this gesture that has once again reignited the issue of machismo present in many spheres of society.<\/p>\n<p>\"Because there are too many of us and they won&#039;t be able to pass over the life we want to inherit, where I&#039;m not afraid to say what I think\", she continued, reciting the lyrics of one of her most recognisable songs: &#039;Revoluci\u00f3n&#039; (&#039;P\u00e1jaros en la cabeza&#039;, 2005 - \" <em>Porque somos demasiadas y no podr\u00e1n pasar por encima de la vida que queremos heredar, donde no tenga miedo a decir lo que pienso<\/em> \").<\/p>\n<p>Even today, women&#039;s bodies still make people uncomfortable. They are censored and objectified, which is why many artists choose to use them as a weapon of protest.<\/p>\n<p>The singer Roc\u00edo Saiz has been engaged in this struggle for more than a decade and is \"fed up with receiving threats and insults\" through social networks.<\/p>\n<p>\"There is a very serious problem in this society,\" laments Saiz. \"They have always resented the things we do. That we have jobs, that we think for ourselves, that we vote... And now it bothers them that we do whatever we want on stage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\"They don&#039;t let us be, they want to control us.\"<\/p>\n<h2><strong>For Roc\u00edo, for Rigoberta...<\/strong><\/h2><p>As well as a feminist vindication, Amaral&#039;s topless performance was an act of solidarity with fellow artists Roc\u00edo Saiz, Rigoberta Bandini and Zahara at a time when these artists are in the spotlight.<\/p>\n<p>\"This is for Roc\u00edo, for Rigoberta, for Zahara, for Miren, for Bebe, for all of us\", said Amaral before removing the top of her dress.<\/p>\n<p>\"From a privileged position that doesn&#039;t need any kind of marketing, Amaral has empathised with the <em>compa\u00f1eras<\/em> who are fighting below\", celebrates Saiz, aware of the risk that artists face because of their activism. She says that it has even earned her some hostility from members of her family.<\/p>\n<p>Her concert during the LGTBI Pride festivities in Murcia was censored. When she took off her t-shirt, revealing her chest - something she has been doing for ten years now - the police stopped the performance and forced her to get dressed.<\/p>\n<p>But the worst censorship, she says, is unseen kind.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\"There are many female colleagues who have taken a stand and have been penalised. Your name is on the list and you are directly discarded\".<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1690651079891894272\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>As for Rigoberta Bandini, she usually shows her breasts on stage when she performs the song &#039;Ay mam\u00e1&#039; - her entry for Benidorm Fest 2022. It is a clear feminist plea which honours motherhood and breastfeeding, and even if she didn&#039;t manage to take it to Eurovision, the song became a hit.<\/p>\n<p>The song features the following lyrics: \"I don&#039;t know why our tits are so scary. Without them there would be no humanity and there would be no beauty. \u201c (\u201c <em>No s\u00e9 por qu\u00e9 dan tanto miedo nuestras tetas \/ Sin ellas no habr\u00eda humanidad ni habr\u00eda belleza...<\/em> \u201d)<\/p>\n<p>Time has proven her right, evidenced by the wave of criticism and sexist comments that artists suffer every time they show their bodies.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1690736512269234177\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Singer Zahara was criticised by a conservative sector of society for the cover of her album &#039;Puta&#039; (2021), in which she <strong><a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2023//08//15//the-assumption-the-virgin-mary-as-a-powerful-icon-of-pop-culture/">appears dressed as the Virgin Mary<\/a><\/strong>. She was accused of religious offence and the poster for her concert in Toledo was censored after a petition by the ultra-right-wing Vox party.<\/p>\n<p>However, her image was a denunciation \"of how we are expected to be perfect, of the pressure we feel to be mothers, of how we are expected to be saints, and of every time we have been called a whore\", Zahara explained during her performance.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>The body as a political weapon<\/strong><\/h2><p>The video of Amaral, which has been shared and commented on countless times, has reopened the debate on the need in the 21st century for a feminism that shows itself and acts.<\/p>\n<p>Some reactions explain why.<\/p>\n<p>Although it was applauded by Spanish social and political figures such as the Minister for Equality Irene Montero and the Vice-President of the Government and Minister for Employment Yolanda D\u00edaz, Amaral\u2019s show also sparked controversy, with hundreds of sexist comments flooding the social networks.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1690648221570203648\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Roc\u00edo Saiz sees a radical involution of the rights of minorities in Spain and a growing hatred of women, racially profiled people, people who challenge heteronormative standards, and immigrants...\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\"I think that 21st century men are afraid of losing privileges, of women leaving home, of certain behaviours no longer being allowed\", says the singer and activist. That&#039;s why \"their response is violence and fear\".<\/p>\n<p>For Saiz, it is about \"an ideological struggle of the patriarchy\", one that must be fought with the following weapons: the body, words, books, ideas and education.<\/p>\n<p>\"Whoever thinks that the message is someone only taking off their shirt and showing their tits has not understood anything\", she says. \"What we are trying to say is that we are not allowed to be masters of our bodies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\"I do what I want with my body because men do what they want with their bodies.\u201d<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1692371197,"publishedAt":1692372195,"updatedAt":1692629852,"expiresAt":0,"canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/culture\/2023\/08\/18\/the-freedom-to-show-your-breasts-why-does-spanish-singer-amarals-gesture-matter","images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/83\/17\/62\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_26fbf72e-fb04-5797-8929-17d482954a94-7831762.jpg","altText":"The singer Eva 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wildfire scorches Spain's Tenerife island, affecting thousands","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Out-of-control wildfire scorches Spain's Tenerife island","titleListing2":"Out-of-control wildfire scorches Spain's Tenerife island, affecting thousands","leadin":"An out-of-control wildfire on the Spanish Canary island of Tenerife has burned thousands of acres and affected nearly 8,000 people who are either evacuated or confined, authorities said Thursday.","summary":"An out-of-control wildfire on the Spanish Canary island of Tenerife has burned thousands of acres and affected nearly 8,000 people who are either evacuated or confined, authorities said Thursday.","url":"out-of-control-wildfire-scorches-spains-tenerife-island-affecting-thousands","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Regional President Fernando Clavijo said some 250 firefighters and members of the Spanish army are tackling the blaze, located in the north of the island, a key tourist destination. Clavijo said the fire had a nearly 30-kilometre-long perimeter. \n\n\u201cThis is probably the most complicated blaze we have had on the Canary Islands, if not ever, in at least the last 40 years,\u201d Clavijo told reporters. Extreme temperatures on the island, he said, added to \u201cspecific meteorological conditions\u201d caused by the fire that turned the area into a virtual oven. \n\nThe blaze, which started Tuesday night, is centred on a craggy, mountainous area, which is difficult for emergency brigades to access. Spanish authorities said their main goal is to contain the fire and prevent it from reaching more populated areas. The island\u2019s main town, Santa Cruz, is 20 kilometres away from the flames. \n\nThe wildfire is threatening six municipalities. Some 7,600 residents in the area have either been evacuated or ordered to stay indoors Thursday due to hazardous air quality. Clavijo said firefighters were working day and night but the fire remained \u201cout of control.\u201d \n\nThe seven-island archipelago is located off the northwest coast of Africa and southwest of mainland Spain. \n\nTenerife is one of Spain\u2019s tourist hotspots. Tenerife Tourism office stressed in a statement Thursday afternoon that the main tourist areas and cities of the island are away from the fire. Business continues as usual in accommodation establishments, beaches and other tourist sites located in areas near the coast and in the midlands, the office said. \n\nBut access to the Teide National Park, the most important tourist attraction in Tenerife after the beaches, will be closed to the public from Thursday 18:00 local time (17:00 GMT), said the Canary regional government. All tourist facilities around the Teide volcano area, including accommodation, will be evacuated, alongside the Astrophysics Institute of the Canary Islands' personnel. \n\nFurther evacuations are expected in the coming hours in several neighbourhoods. The wildfire is particularly virulent on its north side. \n\nTemperatures in the Canary Islands peaked at more than 40 degrees Celsius in recent days. Temperatures are set to rise again on Saturday. \n\nThe fire could become Spain\u2019s worst blaze so far this summer, as the country suffers another year of severe drought. \n\nMore than 2,000 people were evacuated in a wildfire on the nearby La Palma island last month that affected some 4,500 hectares. \n\nWildfires have burned almost 64,000 hectares in Spain in the first seven months of the year, according to Spanish government data. That's the third-highest figure in the last decade. \n\nSpain accounted for almost 40 per cent of the nearly 800,00 hectares burned in the European Union in 2022, according to the European Forest Fire Information System. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Regional President Fernando Clavijo said some 250 firefighters and members of the Spanish army are tackling the blaze, located in the north of the island, a key tourist destination. Clavijo said the fire had a nearly 30-kilometre-long perimeter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is probably the most complicated blaze we have had on the Canary Islands, if not ever, in at least the last 40 years,\u201d Clavijo told reporters. Extreme temperatures on the island, he said, added to \u201cspecific meteorological conditions\u201d caused by the fire that turned the area into a virtual oven.<\/p>\n<p>The blaze, which started Tuesday night, is centred on a craggy, mountainous area, which is difficult for emergency brigades to access. Spanish authorities said their main goal is to contain the fire and prevent it from reaching more populated areas. The island\u2019s main town, Santa Cruz, is 20 kilometres away from the flames.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7807306,7780156\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//07//26//mediterranean-sea-breaks-new-heat-record-what-does-this-mean-for-weather-in-europe/">Mediterranean Sea breaks new heat record: What does this mean for weather in Europe?<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//08//08//fruit-is-disappearing-from-italian-orchards-due-to-extreme-weather-farmers-warn/">Fruit is disappearing from Italian orchards due to extreme weather, farmers warn<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The wildfire is threatening six municipalities. Some 7,600 residents in the area have either been evacuated or ordered to stay indoors Thursday due to hazardous air quality. Clavijo said firefighters were working day and night but the fire remained \u201cout of control.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The seven-island archipelago is located off the northwest coast of Africa and southwest of mainland Spain.<\/p>\n<p>Tenerife is one of Spain\u2019s tourist hotspots. Tenerife Tourism office stressed in a statement Thursday afternoon that the main tourist areas and cities of the island are away from the fire. Business continues as usual in accommodation establishments, beaches and other tourist sites located in areas near the coast and in the midlands, the office said.<\/p>\n<p>But access to the Teide National Park, the most important tourist attraction in Tenerife after the beaches, will be closed to the public from Thursday 18:00 local time (17:00 GMT), said the Canary regional government. All tourist facilities around the Teide volcano area, including accommodation, will be evacuated, alongside the Astrophysics Institute of the Canary Islands&#039; personnel.<\/p>\n<p>Further evacuations are expected in the coming hours in several neighbourhoods. The wildfire is particularly virulent on its north side.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6650390625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//82//93//16//808x539_cmsv2_b1255e9b-8f32-52a0-b48b-2dc113104175-7829316.jpg/" alt=\"Stringer &#47;AP\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/93\/16\/384x255_cmsv2_b1255e9b-8f32-52a0-b48b-2dc113104175-7829316.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/93\/16\/640x426_cmsv2_b1255e9b-8f32-52a0-b48b-2dc113104175-7829316.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/93\/16\/750x499_cmsv2_b1255e9b-8f32-52a0-b48b-2dc113104175-7829316.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/93\/16\/828x551_cmsv2_b1255e9b-8f32-52a0-b48b-2dc113104175-7829316.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/93\/16\/1080x718_cmsv2_b1255e9b-8f32-52a0-b48b-2dc113104175-7829316.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/93\/16\/1200x798_cmsv2_b1255e9b-8f32-52a0-b48b-2dc113104175-7829316.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/93\/16\/1920x1277_cmsv2_b1255e9b-8f32-52a0-b48b-2dc113104175-7829316.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">The flames advance through the forest near the town of El Rosario, as wildfire continues to burn on Tenerife, Canary Islands, Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2023.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Stringer &#47;AP<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Temperatures in the Canary Islands peaked at more than 40 degrees Celsius in recent days. Temperatures are set to rise again on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The fire could become Spain\u2019s worst blaze so far this summer, as the country suffers another year of severe drought.<\/p>\n<p>More than 2,000 people were evacuated in a wildfire on the nearby La Palma island last month that affected some 4,500 hectares.<\/p>\n<p>Wildfires have burned almost 64,000 hectares in Spain in the first seven months of the year, according to Spanish government data. 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But the conservative Popular Party, which received the greatest number of votes in the election last month, the far-right Vox party, and one smaller party can also muster the same 171 seats. To get an absolute majority, 176 votes are needed. \n\nThe seven members of Junts (Together), a radical Catalan separatist party led by fugitive politician Carles Puigdemont, who is exiled in Brussels, therefore had the power to determine the course of Spain\u2019s politics for the next four years. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>The socialist government of Spain&#039;s Prime Minister\u00a0Pedro S\u00e1nchez has secured the presidency over its parliament&#039;s main administrative body after his socialist candidate won the support of two pro-Catalan independence parties at the eleventh hour.<\/p>\n<p>Spain&#039;s outgoing prime minister breathed a sigh of relief after\u00a0Francina Armengol,\u00a0a politician from the Socialist Party of the Balearic Islands, secured the backing of the hard-line wing of Catalan independence, thereby\u00a0electing Armengol as the new president of Congress by an absolute majority.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The vote was widely considered as a practice run ahead of an important investiture vote next month which will decide who forms the government.<\/p>\n<p>Armengol, with 178 votes in favour out of 350 in the Chamber, won over the candidate of the conservative Popular Party (PP), which despite being the majority group in Congress, with 137 seats, did not obtain the necessary support from other parties to achieve a sufficient majority.<\/p>\n<p>The socialist party PSOE obtained support from the pro-Catalan independence party Junts in exchange for boosting co-official languages in Congress, an investigation into <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2022//11//29//all-questions-and-no-answers-as-spanish-spy-chief-stays-mute-on-pegasus-hacking-scandal/">the Pegasus case<\/a> and measures to \"end the repression\" related to the illegal Catalonian referendum of 1-O.<\/p>\n<p>Inconclusive national elections on 23 July had left no major party with an easy path to cobble together the support needed to lead a government, and meant parties on the left and right of the spectrum are delicately poised in the fight for power.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7777460,4424862\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2020//01//08//what-does-spain-s-election-result-mean-for-catalonia-s-independence-movement/">What does Spain's election result mean for Catalonia's independence movement?<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//07//25//could-a-catalan-separatist-party-join-a-coalition-government-in-spain/">Could a Catalan separatist party join a coalition government in Spain?<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>S\u00e1nchez\u2019s Socialists, the left-wing Sumar (Joining Forces) and four smaller parties can total 171 seats. 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less than half the time it currently takes. \n\nAccording to Spanish news site La Informaci\u00f3n, it is hoped the line will connect Madrid and Lisbon via Badajoz in six hours by 2027. \n\nThe coastal line, meanwhile, could extend to Vigo, Santiago and A Coru\u00f1a in northwest Spain , while Madrid could be connected to Porto via Salamanca. \n\n\u201cThere are no definite plans confirmed or approved at the moment concerning Portugal ,\u201d a Renfe spokesperson said when contacted by Euronews Travel. \n\nHowever, they did confirm that the Madrid-Extremadura high-speed rail line - currently under construction - will connect with the Portuguese city of Evora in future. By 2030, this line is projected to extend to Lisbon via Poceir\u00e3o. \n\nWhy is there no train line between Spain and Portugal? \n\nRenfe needs to invest \u20ac15 million to adapt part of its rolling stock to Portuguese infrastructure, according to La Informaci\u00f3n. \n\nVarious infrastructure issues need to be addressed before cross-border trains can operate. These include discrepancies in electrical voltages and signalling systems that are not expected to be resolved until at least 2025, the news site reports. \n\nPortugal\u2019 s railway manager Infraestruturas de Portugal and state operator Comboios de Portugal (CP) say they are yet to receive formal notice of Renfe\u2019s plans. \n\nEarlier this year though, the Spanish and Portuguese prime ministers endorsed plans to improve train connectivity between their two countries in line with the EU\u2019s plan to liberalise Europe\u2019s railways . \n\nRenfe stopped operating the Madrid-Lisbon Trenhotel Lusitania in May 2020 due to the pandemic, and never resumed the service. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Spain\u2019s national rail operator has recently launched new routes connecting to major cities in France.<\/p>\n<p>Now, rumour has it that Renfe has its sights set on Portugal.<\/p>\n<p>Various media outlets have reported that it is launching services linking Madrid and Lisbon, and the northwest Spanish port city of A Coru\u00f1a with Porto.<\/p>\n<p>The two countries\u2019 capitals have not been linked by a direct train since 2020, when Renfe discontinued its overnight train-hotel service.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s everything we know so far.<\/p>\n<h2>Spanish trains could take advantage of Portugal\u2019s new high-speed line<\/h2><p>Portugal is developing a <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2023//08//16//flight-free-travel-europes-new-long-distance-train-routes-for-2022/">new high-speed train<\/strong><\/a> line, the first part of which is due to be completed in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The 100km line from Elvas to Evora will cut the journey time between <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2022//11//18//flight-free-travel-around-portugal-is-about-to-get-easier-thanks-to-high-speed-rail-routes/">Lisbon in west Portugal and Badajoz in west Spain from three-and-a-half to under two hours.<\/p>\n<p>It will be part of a wider Iberian high-speed <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2023//04//21//lumo-ouigo-avlo-these-budget-european-rail-providers-are-competing-with-cheap-airlines/">rail network that will also connect Lisbon to Porto in around 1 hour 15 minutes - less than half the time it currently takes.<\/p>\n<p>According to Spanish news site La Informaci\u00f3n, it is hoped the line will connect <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2022//12//15//paris-to-madrid-new-high-speed-train-will-slash-travelling-time-between-major-european-cap/">Madrid and Lisbon via Badajoz in six hours by 2027.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7817476,7534476\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2023//04//15//high-speed-rail-is-booming-in-spain-could-its-lower-prices-and-more-services-be-a-model-fo/">High-speed rail is booming in Spain: Could its lower prices and more services be a model for Europe?<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2023//08//11//want-to-travel-portugal-by-train-now-you-can-get-an-unlimited-national-rail-pass-for-49/">Want to travel Portugal by train? Now you can get an unlimited national rail pass for \u20ac49<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The coastal line, meanwhile, could extend to Vigo, Santiago and A Coru\u00f1a in northwest <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2023//06//16//spain-encourages-summer-travel-by-slashing-youth-interrail-ticket-prices-in-half/">Spain, while Madrid could be connected to Porto via Salamanca.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are no definite plans confirmed or approved at the moment concerning <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2022//11//18//portugal-railway-investment/">Portugal,/u201d a Renfe spokesperson said when contacted by Euronews Travel.<\/p>\n<p>However, they did confirm that the Madrid-Extremadura high-speed rail line - currently under construction - will connect with the Portuguese city of Evora in future. By 2030, this line is projected to extend to Lisbon via Poceir\u00e3o.<\/p>\n<h2>Why is there no train line between Spain and Portugal?<\/h2><p>Renfe needs to invest \u20ac15 million to adapt part of its rolling stock to Portuguese infrastructure, according to La Informaci\u00f3n.<\/p>\n<p>Various <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2023//02//21//unspeakable-botch-spain-spends-258-million-on-trains-that-are-too-big-for-its-tunnels/">infrastructure issues<\/strong><\/a> need to be addressed before cross-border trains can operate. These include discrepancies in electrical voltages and signalling systems that are not expected to be resolved until at least 2025, the news site reports.<\/p>\n<p><a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//07//31//solar-49-train-tickets-and-home-energy-efficiency-why-portugal-is-our-green-country-of-the/">Portugal/u2019s railway manager Infraestruturas de Portugal and state operator Comboios de Portugal (CP) say they are yet to receive formal notice of Renfe\u2019s plans.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year though, the Spanish and Portuguese prime ministers endorsed plans to improve train connectivity between their two countries in line with the EU\u2019s plan to <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2023//02//08//germany-italy-spain-crossing-the-eu-by-train-will-be-faster-and-cheaper-with-these-new-rou/">liberalise Europe\u2019s railways<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Renfe stopped operating the Madrid-Lisbon Trenhotel Lusitania in May 2020 due to the pandemic, and never resumed the service.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1692191496,"publishedAt":1692252033,"updatedAt":1692264791,"expiresAt":0,"canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/travel\/2023\/08\/17\/spain-to-portugal-by-train-is-a-madrid-to-lisbon-high-speed-line-on-the-horizon","images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/63\/00\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_ab4b40e2-12af-58f5-979e-39482dc17c8e-7826300.jpg","altText":"Renfe says plans for expansion into Portugal are yet to be confirmed.","caption":"Renfe says plans for expansion into Portugal are yet to be confirmed.","captionCredit":"Renfe Group via Business Wire\/AP","captionUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"sourceUrl":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1920,"height":1080}],"authors":{"journalists":[],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"id":28768,"slug":"renfe","urlSafeValue":"renfe","title":"Renfe","titleRaw":"Renfe"},{"id":231,"slug":"portugal","urlSafeValue":"portugal","title":"Portugal","titleRaw":"Portugal"},{"id":7809,"slug":"spain","urlSafeValue":"spain","title":"Spain","titleRaw":"Spain"},{"id":13162,"slug":"trains","urlSafeValue":"trains","title":"Trains","titleRaw":"Trains"},{"id":1960,"slug":"madrid","urlSafeValue":"madrid","title":"Madrid","titleRaw":"Madrid"},{"id":1940,"slug":"lisbon","urlSafeValue":"lisbon","title":"Lisbon","titleRaw":"Lisbon"}],"widgets":[{"slug":"related","count":1}],"related":[],"technicalTags":[],"video":0,"videos":[],"externalPartners":[],"liveStream":[{"startDate":0,"endDate":0}],"isLiveCoverage":0,"scribbleLiveId":0,"scribbleLiveRibbon":0,"sourceId":1,"sources":[],"externalSource":"","additionalSources":"","additionalReporting":"Euronews Travel","freeField1":"","freeField2":null,"type":"","program":{"id":"travel-news","urlSafeValue":"travel-news","title":"Travel News","online":0,"url":"\/\/www.euronews.com\/travel\/travel-news\/travel-news"},"vertical":"travel","verticals":[{"id":7,"slug":"travel","urlSafeValue":"travel","title":"Travel"}],"primaryVertical":{"id":7,"slug":"travel","urlSafeValue":"travel","title":"Travel"},"themes":[{"id":"travel-news","urlSafeValue":"travel-news","title":"Travel News","url":"\/\/www.euronews.com\/travel\/travel-news"}],"primaryTheme":{"id":21,"urlSafeValue":"travel-news","title":"Travel-news"},"advertising":0,"advertisingData":{"startDate":0,"endDate":0,"type":null,"isDfp":null,"slug":null,"title":null,"disclaimerLabelKey":null,"sponsor":null,"sponsorName":null,"sponsorUrl":null,"sponsorLogo":"","sponsorLogoReverse":""},"geoLocation":{"lat":0,"lon":0},"location":1,"continent":{"id":104,"urlSafeValue":"europe","title":"Europe"},"country":{"id":435,"urlSafeValue":"spain","title":"Spain","url":"\/news\/europe\/spain"},"town":[],"grapeshot":"'gv_safe','gb_safe','pos_equinor','pos_facebook','pos_pmi','pos_ukraine-russia','pos_ukrainecrisis','gs_travel','gs_science','gs_science_geography','gs_travel_type','gs_travel_locations','gs_travel_locations_europe','gs_travel_rail','gs_busfin','sm_politics','neg_facebook_2021'","versions":[],"programDeliverable":{"slug":"sujet","format":"default"},"storyTranslationMethod":[],"localisation":[],"showOpinionDisclaimer":0,"path":"\/travel\/2023\/08\/17\/spain-to-portugal-by-train-is-a-madrid-to-lisbon-high-speed-line-on-the-horizon","lastModified":1692264791},{"id":2345976,"cid":7822022,"versionId":7,"archive":0,"housenumber":"230814_NWSU_52755166","owner":"euronews","isMagazine":0,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Spain's new registry for stillborn babies sparks deeply personal debate","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Spain's new registry for stillborn babies sparks debate","titleListing2":"Babies who die before birth - but had a gestation period of more than six months - must be registered and can have a name in the Spanish civil registry. Feminists say it's a frontal attack on women's right to abortion.","leadin":"Babies who die before birth - but had a gestation period of more than six months - must be registered and can have a name in the Spanish civil registry. Feminists say it's a frontal attack on women's right to abortion.","summary":"Babies who die before birth - but had a gestation period of more than six months - must be registered and can have a name in the Spanish civil registry. Feminists say it's a frontal attack on women's right to abortion.","url":"spains-new-registry-for-stillborn-babies-sparks-deeply-personal-debate","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"In the 31st week of her pregnancy, the heart of Cora, the baby that Noelia S\u00e1nchez was carrying, stopped beating. \n\nShe was told it was a sudden intrauterine death, without ever knowing the real reason for it. After the news, the grief was very painful. \n\n\"It was very much silenced by those around me. They loved me, but they didn't understand. No one thought of Cora as my daughter, for them she was an abortion,\" S\u00e1nchez told Euronews. \n\n\"They told me I could not have her on the civil register because she was born without life and her name could not be registered\u201d. \n\nThat is all set to change after a new law was passed, following demands from pregnancy loss associations.\u00a0 \n\nFrom now on, babies who die before birth - but had a gestation period of more than six months - must be registered and can have a name in the civil register file. To this end, the country has created a new \"stillbirth declaration\" register. \n\nBefore the change, babies who died after the sixth month of pregnancy were registered in the so-called 'Abortion Creatures File', without the possibility of being named or both parents being identified. \n\n\"This is a great achievement for the families. I had to register my daughter as the female foetus of Noelia S\u00e1nchez, and it was very painful. She is not a foetus, she is my daughter. This measure has no legal effect, but it gives emotional peace,\" says S\u00e1nchez. \n\n\"One of the things that hurt me the most was that they didn't recognise me as a mother, when I felt like one. My daughter ended up in the bin. For them she was surgical waste, and that was horrible\". \n\n\"The validation of the baby\u2019s name and surname is also a validation of the mourning,\" she adds. \n\nIt was last February that, after years of struggle, the Congress of Deputies approved the Socialist Party's law change, with the votes of all the political groups except the extreme right-wing party Vox. \n\nAn 'outrageous\u2019 step backwards \n\nSeveral feminist organisations have also expressed concern that, while the new law is not directly in conflict with the current right to abortion, it is a first step towards recognising the historical demands of anti-abortion groups. \n\n\"This is the first step towards recognising the foetus as a person. It is a frontal attack on women's right to abortion, because today you can register it after six months of pregnancy, but tomorrow it could be only three months and the week after that it could be one week,\" N\u00faria Gonz\u00e1lez, a lawyer specialising in human rights and bioethics, told Euronews. \n\n\"The law is very clear. A person is a baby who is born alive and comes out of the womb,\" she adds. \n\nThe change in the law does not contradict the current right to abortion, which allows it up to the 22nd week of pregnancy, as the amendment states that only six-month-old stillborn babies can be registered. \n\nBut for feminist collectives to give it an identity is to equate its death with that of a human being. \n\nHowever, statistics show that one in four pregnancies does not result in a live birth, and families say they feel by giving a name to their children they are recognised. \n\n\"It is not a step backwards. With this law, nobody will force you to give a first name and surname, it is a free choice,\" says S\u00e1nchez. \n\n\"For me, the most important thing is that every family can be at peace. I think it is an aberration that we are denied a name for our child when we need that,\" she adds. \n\nFeminist organisations, nonetheless, claim that giving a name does not help families to overcome their grief. \n\n\"What we need is psychological care and to ensure that these women have the right to have maternity leave just like the mother of a baby born alive, so that they can mourn in peace,\" says the lawyer. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>In the 31st week of her pregnancy, the heart of Cora, the baby that Noelia S\u00e1nchez was carrying, stopped beating.<\/p>\n<p>She was told it was a sudden intrauterine death, without ever knowing the real reason for it. After the news, the grief was very painful.<\/p>\n<p>\"It was very much silenced by those around me. They loved me, but they didn&#039;t understand. No one thought of Cora as my daughter, for them she was an abortion,\" S\u00e1nchez told Euronews.<\/p>\n<p>\"They told me I could not have her on the civil register because she was born without life and her name could not be registered\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>That is all set to change after a new law was passed, following demands from pregnancy loss associations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>From now on, babies who die before birth - but had a gestation period of more than six months - must be registered and can have a name in the civil register file. To this end, the country has created a new \"stillbirth declaration\" register.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7631488\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2023//05//27//a-recent-reform-is-meant-to-guarantee-free-abortion-in-all-of-spain-has-it/">A recent reform was meant to guarantee free abortion in all of Spain. Is it working?<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Before the change, babies who died after the sixth month of pregnancy were registered in the so-called &#039;Abortion Creatures File&#039;, without the possibility of being named or both parents being identified.<\/p>\n<p>\"This is a great achievement for the families. I had to register my daughter as the female foetus of Noelia S\u00e1nchez, and it was very painful. She is not a foetus, she is my daughter. This measure has no legal effect, but it gives emotional peace,\" says S\u00e1nchez.<\/p>\n<p>\"One of the things that hurt me the most was that they didn&#039;t recognise me as a mother, when I felt like one. My daughter ended up in the bin. For them she was surgical waste, and that was horrible\".<\/p>\n<p>\"The validation of the baby\u2019s name and surname is also a validation of the mourning,\" she adds.<\/p>\n<p>It was last February that, after years of struggle, the Congress of Deputies approved the Socialist Party&#039;s law change, with the votes of all the political groups except the extreme right-wing party Vox.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//82//20//22//808x539_cmsv2_5237a9e7-d37d-5b4f-9bcd-29dfffc6d312-7822022.jpg/" alt=\"Ahmed Ramadan&#47;AP\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/20\/22\/384x256_cmsv2_5237a9e7-d37d-5b4f-9bcd-29dfffc6d312-7822022.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/20\/22\/640x427_cmsv2_5237a9e7-d37d-5b4f-9bcd-29dfffc6d312-7822022.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/20\/22\/750x500_cmsv2_5237a9e7-d37d-5b4f-9bcd-29dfffc6d312-7822022.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/20\/22\/828x552_cmsv2_5237a9e7-d37d-5b4f-9bcd-29dfffc6d312-7822022.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/20\/22\/1080x720_cmsv2_5237a9e7-d37d-5b4f-9bcd-29dfffc6d312-7822022.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/20\/22\/1200x800_cmsv2_5237a9e7-d37d-5b4f-9bcd-29dfffc6d312-7822022.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/20\/22\/1920x1281_cmsv2_5237a9e7-d37d-5b4f-9bcd-29dfffc6d312-7822022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Newborn quintuplets lie in an incubator at a hospital.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Ahmed Ramadan&#47;AP<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>An 'outrageous\u2019 step backwards<\/h2><p>Several feminist organisations have also expressed concern that, while the new law is not directly in conflict with the current right to abortion, it is a first step towards recognising the historical demands of anti-abortion groups.<\/p>\n<p>\"This is the first step towards recognising the foetus as a person. It is a frontal attack on women&#039;s right to abortion, because today you can register it after six months of pregnancy, but tomorrow it could be only three months and the week after that it could be one week,\" N\u00faria Gonz\u00e1lez, a lawyer specialising in human rights and bioethics, told Euronews.<\/p>\n<p>\"The law is very clear. A person is a baby who is born alive and comes out of the womb,\" she adds.<\/p>\n<p>The change in the law does not contradict the current right to abortion, which allows it up to the 22nd week of pregnancy, as the amendment states that only six-month-old stillborn babies can be registered.<\/p>\n<p>But for feminist collectives to give it an identity is to equate its death with that of a human being.<\/p>\n<p>However, statistics show that one in four pregnancies does not result in a live birth, and families say they feel by giving a name to their children they are recognised.<\/p>\n<p>\"It is not a step backwards. With this law, nobody will force you to give a first name and surname, it is a free choice,\" says S\u00e1nchez.<\/p>\n<p>\"For me, the most important thing is that every family can be at peace. I think it is an aberration that we are denied a name for our child when we need that,\" she adds.<\/p>\n<p>Feminist organisations, nonetheless, claim that giving a name does not help families to overcome their grief.<\/p>\n<p>\"What we need is psychological care and to ensure that these women have the right to have maternity leave just like the mother of a baby born alive, so that they can mourn in peace,\" says the lawyer.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1692019297,"publishedAt":1692073801,"updatedAt":1692182643,"expiresAt":0,"canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/08\/15\/spains-new-registry-for-stillborn-babies-sparks-deeply-personal-debate","images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/82\/20\/22\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_4c42ff28-b03f-5bc9-9951-be72de73dc78-7822022.jpg","altText":"According to statistics, one in four pregnancies does not result in a live birth.","caption":"According to statistics, one in four pregnancies does not result in a live 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accused of failing to reopen 'genuine and effective access to asylum' at enclaves since COVID","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Spain failed to reopen 'genuine access to asylum' at enclaves: NGOs","titleListing2":"Migrant rights NGOs have accused Spanish authorities of carrying out an \"unlawful\" policy of pushbacks and expulsions at the EU\u2019s external borders of Ceuta and Melilla in Northern Morocco since the declaration of a state of emergency in March 2020.","leadin":"Three decades of migration deals between Spain and Morocco have led to fortified and almost impenetrable borders for asylum seekers.","summary":"Three decades of migration deals between Spain and Morocco have led to fortified and almost impenetrable borders for asylum seekers.","url":"spain-accused-of-failing-to-reopen-genuine-and-effective-access-to-asylum-at-enclaves-sinc","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Spain has failed to reopen safe and legal routes for people seeking asylum in its North African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla since the COVID-19 pandemic, NGOs told Euronews.\u00a0 \n\nMigrant rights NGOs have accused Spanish authorities of carrying out an \"unlawful\" and \"discriminatory\" policy of pushbacks and expulsions against \"Black\" asylum seekers of Sub-Saharan origin at the EU\u2019s external borders of Ceuta and Melilla in Northern Morocco since the declaration of a state of emergency in March 2020. \n\n\"Spanish authorities have shut the border without giving any sort of asylum access,\" Mar Soriano, legal adviser for the Melilla-based Solidary Wheels NGO, told Euronews. \"It was already limited for Black people who face disproportionate discrimination from Moroccan border guards who won\u2019t let them access the border.\" \n\nSoriano\u2019s NGO has, alongside the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, repeatedly urged Spanish and Moroccan authorities to restore \u201cgenuine\u201d and \u201ceffective\u201d access to asylum through \u201csafer\u201d and \u201calternative\u201d pathways to reduce the use of dangerous journeys and the risk of tragic events from occurring. \n\nBut these calls have fallen on deaf ears, according to the latest report from the Council of Europe\u2019s Commissioner for Human Rights. \n\n\u201cA combination of several elements in Spain's current approach to migration at its borders with Morocco has led to a situation where no genuine and effective access to safe and legal means of entry and asylum exists,\u201d Dunja Mijatovi\u0107 concluded last April. \n\nThe Commissioner and her predecessor had already raised concerns in 2015, 2018 and 2022 about pushbacks carried out by Moroccan and Spanish border guards to \u201ckeep [asylum seekers] away from\u201d the borders of Ceuta and Melilla. \n\n\u201cThis leaves certain groups of asylum seekers with no other effective option to enter the borders to seek protection with the relevant authorities other than by swimming or jumping the fence, risking one\u2019s life,\u201d the Commissioner added. \n\nCeuta and Melilla\u2019s 'special regime' and Covid-era ban \n\nSpain\u2019s Ceuta and Melilla enclaves have been the scenes of many pushbacks and violent police responses since 2014. \n\nIn early February 2014, at least 15 Sub-Saharan refugees and asylum seekers trying to swim around a seawall dividing Ceuta and Morocco drowned off the coast of Ceuta after local police opened fire with large rubber bullets in a \u201ctragic\u201d case that remains unprobed, according to Amnesty International. \n\nLater that same month, more than 200 people successfully reached Spanish territory after storming the massive barrier fence that separates Ceuta from Morocco. \n\nIn August of the same year, a group of 23 people was summarily expelled to Morocco \u201cwithout a chance to apply for asylum\u201d or to \u201cappeal the expulsion\u201d after climbing over Melilla\u2019s border fence, Amnesty 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At least half of them were \u201cimmediately expelled\u201d in pushbacks in line with Spain\u2019s migration deals with Morocco. \n\nThe drive in pushbacks in Ceuta and Melilla in the 2010s was propelled by amendments to Spain\u2019s Aliens Act in 2015 which granted the enclaves a \u201cspecial regime\u201d, allowing border guards to effectively push back non-nationals trying to irregularly cross border controls in the name of \u201cpublic safety\u201d, said Soriano. \n\n\u201cAsylum processing is deliberately opaque and secretive to complicate judicial cases. It also means there are no official data on pushbacks publicly available,\u201d she told Euronews. \n\nThe issue has been compounded by Spain and Morocco\u2019s failure to lift the COVID-era ban on new migrant crossings despite promises to reopen the land borders with Ceuta and Melilla, said Elena Mun\u0303oz, Legal State Coordinator at the Spanish Commission for Refugee Aid (CEAR). \n\n\u201c[Spanish authorities] have been dragging along a pandemic situation that has not yet been reversed. In any case, even if these border crossings are reopened, they have never been open to sub-Saharan Africans,\u201d she told Euronews. \n\nDespite multiple calls for legislative reforms, Spanish lawmakers have failed to tackle pressing migration issues like pushback policies and the right to apply for asylum. \n\nInstead, Spain and Morocco announced in February 2023 they would \u201cintensify\u201d their cooperation in \u201cthe fight against irregular migration\u201d and \u201cborder control.\u201d \n\nSpain and Morocco\u2019s \u2018flawed\u2019 and \u2018insufficient\u2019 reports \n\nBoth countries faced widespread condemnation after the June 2022 \u201cMelilla incident\u201d in which 470 migrants were returned to Morocco after around 2,000 migrants stormed the triple border fences that separate the Spanish enclave from Morocco. \n\nPeople attempting to cross into Melilla through the border checkpoint faced the \u201cexcessive\u201d use of \u201cunlawful\u201d force by Spanish and Moroccan police and border guards who launched tear gas, fired rubber bullets, and threw rocks at asylum seekers, resulting in at least 32 deaths and 77 disappearances, according to UN experts. \n\nSpain and Morocco vehemently denied responsibility and traded blame for the deaths and disappearances of migrants, arguing the Melilla incident was perpetrated on the other country\u2019s soil. \n\nFollowing intense popular, media and diplomatic pressure , both countries launched investigations into police violence and migrants handling at the border between Morocco and Melilla. \n\nBut the investigations fell short of delivering justice and shining a light on the events, said independent observers. \n\nHuman Rights Watch called out Spain and Morocco for \u201cexonerating\u201d their security forces following \u201cflawed\u201d and \u201cinsufficient\u201d investigations into police violence at the Melilla enclave border. In a scathing statement, Amnesty International accused the two countries of a \u201ccover-up\u201d and of failing to properly investigate the events. \n\nThe tragedy has marked a \u201cturning point\u201d in migration flows across Northern Africa, said Soriano, whose NGO has hardly seen anyone entering the enclave since the Melilla incident. \n\n\u201cIn the past year, no one has applied for asylum in Melilla. In Ceuta, however, there have been crossings but they were usually followed by expulsions,\u201d she added. \n\n\u2018A model for other EU states\u2019 \n\nTo justify their approach to migration policy, Spanish authorities have repeatedly referred to a controversial 2020 ruling from the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). The Strasbourg-based international court of the Council of Europe found that Spain was not in violation of the convention, as the two asylum seekers involved in the case \"had not made use of the existing official entry procedures for that purpose.\" \n\nThe decision sparked charges that the Strasbourg court had \u201cgiven the green light\u201d to pushbacks at Europe\u2019s borders and made Spain\u2019s \u201clongstanding practice\u201d of pushbacks \u201ca model for other states along the EU\u2019s external borders.\u201d \n\nAccording to the Flemish Coalition for International Solidarity, known as 11.11.11, more than 200,000 illegal pushbacks were carried out at the EU\u2019s external borders last year. \n\nThe EU is now shifting its focus from deterrence to border externalisation, according to Delphine Rodrik, a legal adviser for the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR). By striking migration deals with Tunisia , Morocco, Libya, Algeria and Egypt, the European Commission led by Ursula von der Leyen is funding North African countries to handle pushbacks and expulsions, she said. \n\n\u201cOn the broader level, it\u2019s very reflective of this larger European policy of shutting borders, of erecting walls and keeping people out at all costs,\u201d Rodrik told Euronews. \n\nSpain\u2019s caretaker Prime Minister Pedro S\u00e1nchez said he believes the European Union can reach an EU-wide immigration pact during his country's tenure of the bloc\u2019s rotating presidency. \n\nHe said that \"Spain has a particular interest in this issue, as do other first-entry countries\", adding that during the six-month presidency he will seek to close differences between European countries. \n\nMigrants rights NGOs are unanimous in saying the upcoming migration pact will worsen the plight of sub-Saharan asylum seekers at Europe\u2019s doors. \n\n\u201cIn conclusion, the [pact's] aim is to legalise what is now illegal, that is to say, to facilitate and legalise even more the pushbacks and expulsions that are already being carried out, but which now have to be done secretly, behind the scenes and without much noise because there are obligations at European and international level that do not allow it,\u201d said Soriano. \n\nA spokesperson for Spain\u2019s Interior Ministry referred to the website of the Asylum and Refugee Office (OAR), which offers \u201ccomplete information on its regulations, procedures and functioning, always in compliance with national and international legislation on international protection and with absolute respect for human rights.\u201d \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Spain has failed to reopen safe and legal routes for people seeking asylum in its North African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla since the COVID-19 pandemic, NGOs told Euronews.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Migrant rights NGOs have accused Spanish authorities of carrying out an \"unlawful\" and \"discriminatory\" policy of pushbacks and expulsions against \"Black\" asylum seekers of Sub-Saharan origin at the EU\u2019s external borders of Ceuta and Melilla in Northern Morocco since the declaration of a state of emergency in March 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\"Spanish authorities have shut the border without giving any sort of asylum access,\" Mar Soriano, legal adviser for the Melilla-based Solidary Wheels NGO, told Euronews. \"It was already limited for Black people who face disproportionate discrimination from Moroccan border guards who won\u2019t let them access the border.\"<\/p>\n<p>Soriano\u2019s NGO has, alongside the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, repeatedly urged Spanish and Moroccan authorities to restore \u201cgenuine\u201d and \u201ceffective\u201d access to asylum through \u201csafer\u201d and \u201calternative\u201d pathways to reduce the use of dangerous journeys and the risk of tragic events from occurring.<\/p>\n<p>But these calls have fallen on deaf ears, according to the latest report from the Council of Europe\u2019s Commissioner for Human Rights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA combination of several elements in Spain&#039;s current approach to migration at its borders with Morocco has led to a situation where no genuine and effective access to safe and legal means of entry and asylum exists,\u201d Dunja Mijatovi\u0107 concluded last April.<\/p>\n<p>The Commissioner and her predecessor had already raised concerns in 2015, 2018 and 2022 about pushbacks carried out by Moroccan and Spanish border guards to \u201ckeep [asylum seekers] away from\u201d the borders of Ceuta and Melilla.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis leaves certain groups of asylum seekers with no other effective option to enter the borders to seek protection with the relevant authorities other than by swimming or jumping the fence, risking one\u2019s life,\u201d the Commissioner added.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7661276\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2023//06//08//eu-countries-strike-major-deal-on-migration-rules-delivering-the-first-breakthrough-in-yea/">EU countries strike major deal on migration rules, delivering the first breakthrough in years<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>Ceuta and Melilla\u2019s 'special regime' and Covid-era ban<\/h2><p>Spain\u2019s Ceuta and Melilla enclaves have been the scenes of many pushbacks and violent police responses since 2014.<\/p>\n<p>In early February 2014, at least 15 Sub-Saharan refugees and asylum seekers trying to swim around a seawall dividing Ceuta and Morocco drowned off the coast of Ceuta after local police opened fire with large rubber bullets in a \u201ctragic\u201d case that remains unprobed, according to Amnesty International.<\/p>\n<p>Later that same month, more than 200 people successfully reached Spanish territory after storming the massive barrier fence that separates Ceuta from Morocco.<\/p>\n<p>In August of the same year, a group of 23 people was summarily expelled to Morocco \u201cwithout a chance to apply for asylum\u201d or to \u201cappeal the expulsion\u201d after climbing over Melilla\u2019s border fence, Amnesty International reported.<\/p>\n<p>Pushbacks, expulsions and illegal crossings gradually grew in numbers every year until the summer of 2021 when the rate of migrant crossings in Ceuta and Melilla reached an all-time high at the height of a diplomatic row between the Moroccan monarchy and the Spanish government.<\/p>\n<p>In retaliation, Moroccan security troops loosened border checks, allowing the passage of more than 8,000 migrants from Morocco to the Spanish cities, most of whom made the journey by swimming. At least half of them were \u201cimmediately expelled\u201d in pushbacks in line with Spain\u2019s migration deals with Morocco.<\/p>\n<p>The drive in pushbacks in Ceuta and Melilla in the 2010s was propelled by amendments to Spain\u2019s Aliens Act in 2015 which granted the enclaves a \u201cspecial regime\u201d, allowing border guards to effectively push back non-nationals trying to irregularly cross border controls in the name of \u201cpublic safety\u201d, said Soriano.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAsylum processing is deliberately opaque and secretive to complicate judicial cases. It also means there are no official data on pushbacks publicly available,\u201d she told Euronews.<\/p>\n<p>The issue has been compounded by Spain and Morocco\u2019s failure to lift the COVID-era ban on new migrant crossings despite promises to reopen the land borders with Ceuta and Melilla, said Elena Mun\u0303oz, Legal State Coordinator at the Spanish Commission for Refugee Aid (CEAR).<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Spanish authorities] have been dragging along a pandemic situation that has not yet been reversed. In any case, even if these border crossings are reopened, they have never been open to sub-Saharan Africans,\u201d she told Euronews.<\/p>\n<p>Despite multiple calls for legislative reforms, Spanish lawmakers have failed to tackle pressing migration issues like pushback policies and the right to apply for asylum.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Spain and Morocco announced in February 2023 they would \u201cintensify\u201d their cooperation in \u201cthe fight against irregular migration\u201d and \u201cborder control.\u201d<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7142454\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2022//10//24//migrants-building-life-in-spain-face-emotional-toll-after-deadly-journey-says-author-ousma/">Migrants building life in Spain face 'emotional toll' after deadly journey, says author Ousman Umar<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>Spain and Morocco\u2019s \u2018flawed\u2019 and \u2018insufficient\u2019 reports<\/h2><p>Both countries faced widespread condemnation after the June 2022 \u201cMelilla incident\u201d in which 470 migrants were returned to Morocco after around 2,000 migrants stormed the triple border fences that separate the Spanish enclave from Morocco.<\/p>\n<p>People attempting to cross into Melilla through the border checkpoint faced the \u201cexcessive\u201d use of \u201cunlawful\u201d force by Spanish and Moroccan police and border guards who launched tear gas, fired rubber bullets, and threw rocks at asylum seekers, resulting in at least 32 deaths and 77 disappearances, according to UN experts.<\/p>\n<p>Spain and Morocco vehemently denied responsibility and traded blame for the deaths and disappearances of migrants, arguing the Melilla incident was perpetrated on the other country\u2019s soil.<\/p>\n<p>Following <strong><a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2022//06//30//melilla-massacre-prompts-international-condemnation-and-calls-for-investigation/">intense popular, media and diplomatic pressure<\/a><\/strong>, both countries launched investigations into police violence and migrants handling at the border between Morocco and Melilla.<\/p>\n<p>But the investigations fell short of delivering justice and shining a light on the events, said independent observers.<\/p>\n<p>Human Rights Watch called out Spain and Morocco for \u201cexonerating\u201d their security forces following \u201cflawed\u201d and \u201cinsufficient\u201d investigations into police violence at the Melilla enclave border. In a scathing statement, Amnesty International accused the two countries of a \u201ccover-up\u201d and of failing to properly investigate the events.<\/p>\n<p>The tragedy has marked a \u201cturning point\u201d in migration flows across Northern Africa, said Soriano, whose NGO has hardly seen anyone entering the enclave since the Melilla incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the past year, no one has applied for asylum in Melilla. In Ceuta, however, there have been crossings but they were usually followed by expulsions,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<h2>\u2018A model for other EU states\u2019<\/h2><p>To justify their approach to migration policy, Spanish authorities have repeatedly referred to a controversial 2020 ruling from the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). The Strasbourg-based international court of the Council of Europe found that Spain was not in violation of the convention, as the two asylum seekers involved in the case \"had not made use of the existing official entry procedures for that purpose.\"<\/p>\n<p>The decision sparked charges that the Strasbourg court had \u201cgiven the green light\u201d to pushbacks at Europe\u2019s borders and made Spain\u2019s \u201clongstanding practice\u201d of pushbacks \u201ca model for other states along the EU\u2019s external borders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the Flemish Coalition for International Solidarity, known as 11.11.11, more than 200,000 illegal pushbacks were carried out at the EU\u2019s external borders last year.<\/p>\n<p>The EU is now shifting its focus from deterrence to border externalisation, according to Delphine Rodrik, a legal adviser for the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR). By <strong><a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2023//07//17//the-contentious-eu-tunisia-deal-is-finally-here-but-what-exactly-is-in-it/">striking migration deals with Tunisia<\/a><\/strong>, Morocco, Libya, Algeria and Egypt, the European Commission led by Ursula von der Leyen is funding North African countries to handle pushbacks and expulsions, she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn the broader level, it\u2019s very reflective of this larger European policy of shutting borders, of erecting walls and keeping people out at all costs,\u201d Rodrik told Euronews.<\/p>\n<p>Spain\u2019s caretaker Prime Minister Pedro S\u00e1nchez said he believes the European Union can reach <strong><a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2023//06//08//eu-countries-strike-major-deal-on-migration-rules-delivering-the-first-breakthrough-in-yea/">an EU-wide immigration pact<\/a><\/strong> during his country&#039;s tenure of the bloc\u2019s rotating presidency.<\/p>\n<p>He said that \"Spain has a particular interest in this issue, as do other first-entry countries\", adding that during the six-month presidency he will seek to close differences between European countries.<\/p>\n<p>Migrants rights NGOs are unanimous in saying the upcoming migration pact will worsen the plight of sub-Saharan asylum seekers at Europe\u2019s doors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn conclusion, the [pact&#039;s] aim is to legalise what is now illegal, that is to say, to facilitate and legalise even more the pushbacks and expulsions that are already being carried out, but which now have to be done secretly, behind the scenes and without much noise because there are obligations at European and international level that do not allow it,\u201d said Soriano.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Spain\u2019s Interior Ministry referred to the website of the Asylum and Refugee Office (OAR), which offers \u201ccomplete information on its regulations, procedures and functioning, always in compliance with national and international legislation on international protection and with absolute respect for human rights.\u201d<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1691762686,"publishedAt":1691989259,"updatedAt":1692003955,"expiresAt":0,"canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2023\/08\/14\/spain-accused-of-failing-to-reopen-genuine-and-effective-access-to-asylum-at-enclaves-sinc","images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/81\/72\/88\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_8d9a4b32-8ab9-5d0d-9c98-92ef971c6a91-7817288.jpg","altText":"Sub-Saharan migrants climb over a metallic fence that divides Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Melilla on March 29, 2014. 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Groups clash over culling of San Sebastien\u2019s flame trees","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"San Sebastian \u2018beautification plan\u2019 chops down dozens of flame trees ","titleListing2":"Aggressive species or essential shade? Groups clash over culling of San Sebastien\u2019s flame trees","leadin":"Protestors are rallying against plans to remove more tree cover on the Canary Island of La Gomera.","summary":"Protestors are rallying against plans to remove more tree cover on the Canary Island of La Gomera.","url":"aggressive-species-or-essential-shade-groups-clash-over-culling-of-san-sebastiens-flame-tr","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Fiery red flame trees are at the centre of a heated debate in the Canary Islands. \n\nA pressure group\u00a0on an island at the heart of Europe\u2019s ecotourism industry is battling to preserve some of its best-loved trees, which authorities are chopping down as part of a programme to embellish the main town. \n\nOpponents of the scheme on the island of La Gomera call it an atrocity and will demonstrate against it on Saturday. Their petition to halt the cull of flame trees, whose bright red flowers make them a magnet for tourists , has drawn more than 1,200 signatures. \n\nWhy are flame trees being chopped down in\u00a0San Sebastian? \n\nThe trees have for decades offered shade on the streets of San Sebastian, the point of arrival for most visitors. But they are among dozens felled in recent weeks on the orders of town mayor Angelica Padilla, who was re-elected in May. \n\nHer governing Gomera Socialist Group\u2019s 'beautification plan' for the town involves replacing mostly mature non-native trees \u2013 which she argues are invasive and also include varieties of ficus - with indigenous species. \n\nPadilla's office did not respond to a request for comment by news agency Reuters. \n\nShe told Canarian television in a Facebook clip posted on Tuesday that all the town's \"very aggressive\" flame trees would be cut down to improve pedestrian access and prevent their roots from damaging water pipes. \n\nOpponents have called the tree culling 'an atrocity' \n\nVentura del Carmen Rodriguez, town spokesperson for the main opposition Socialist Party (PSOE), labelled the cull \"an atrocity\" and \"madness\". \n\n\"We are all battling climate change , and trying to create a green San Sebastian. I don't understand it,\" she told Reuters. \n\nKnown for its stunning landscapes and the UNESCO world heritage site laurel forest at its heart, La Gomera has just recorded its hottest spring in decades and authorities there declared a water emergency in June 2022. The Canaries have suffered repeated heatwaves this summer. \n\nPressure group spokesman Javier Sanchez says the \"nonsensical\" cull has deprived the town of much needed shade and sources of oxygen, and that native and imported trees \"have co-existed for many years\" there. \n\n\"Flame trees have been planted for more than a century in the Canaries and are widely loved because they provide a lot of shade in summer and beautiful flowers,\" he said. \n\nAre flame trees an aggressive species? \n\nLaura Concepcion, biologist at the World Biosphere Reserve on neighbouring La Palma, said flame trees could not be deemed an aggressive species. \n\n\"It isn't invasive like some other ornamental plants,\" she said, while adding that the tree's powerful surface roots could, if unmanaged, cause problems in urban environments. \n\nRodriguez admitted the San Sebastian flame trees' roots were interfering with pipes and distorting stones in some places. \n\n\"But the solution isn't to cut down the tree ,\" she said. \"It's to cut back the roots, improve the paving and let the trees grow while protecting the piping.\" \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Fiery red flame trees are at the centre of a heated debate in the Canary Islands.<\/p>\n<p>A pressure group\u00a0on an island at the heart of Europe\u2019s ecotourism industry is battling to preserve some of its best-loved trees, which authorities are chopping down as part of a programme to embellish the main town.<\/p>\n<p>Opponents of the scheme on the island of La Gomera call it an atrocity and will demonstrate against it on Saturday. Their petition to halt the cull of flame trees, whose bright red flowers make them a magnet for <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2023//08//07//climate-change-is-erasing-one-of-alaskas-most-popular-destinations-will-visitors-keep-comi/">tourists, has drawn more than 1,200 signatures.<\/p>\n<h2>Why are flame trees being chopped down in\u00a0San Sebastian?<\/h2><p>The <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//06//29//fountain-of-youth-living-near-a-green-space-can-reduce-your-biological-age-by-25-years/">trees have for decades offered shade on the streets of San Sebastian, the point of arrival for most visitors. But they are among dozens felled in recent weeks on the orders of town mayor Angelica Padilla, who was re-elected in May.<\/p>\n<p>Her governing Gomera Socialist Group\u2019s &#039;beautification plan&#039; for the town involves replacing mostly mature non-native <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//07//26//polish-city-pushes-for-more-green-spaces-as-country-is-hit-by-heatwave/">trees \u2013 which she argues are invasive and also include varieties of ficus - with indigenous species.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7816454,7799858\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//08//04//we-have-to-make-sure-the-whole-city-is-green-how-can-we-improve-access-to-green-spaces-in/">/u2018We have to make sure the whole city is green\u2019: How can we improve access to green spaces in Europe?<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//08//11//valencia-sets-new-heat-record-during-third-spanish-heatwave-of-the-summer/">Valencia sets new heat record during third Spanish heatwave of the summer<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Padilla&#039;s office did not respond to a request for comment by news agency Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>She told <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2022//04//20//life-after-coral-bleaching-what-can-reefs-that-survive-climate-change-teach-us/">Canarian television in a Facebook clip posted on Tuesday that all the town&#039;s \"very aggressive\" flame trees would be cut down to improve pedestrian access and prevent their roots from damaging water pipes.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-ease-in-up widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//81//70//42//808x454_cmsv2_0c018539-0dc8-545c-ba10-236d1c5890e9-7817042.jpg/" alt=\"Javier Sanchez&#47;Elizabeth Scullion&#47;Handout via REUTERS&#47;File photo\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/81\/70\/42\/384x216_cmsv2_0c018539-0dc8-545c-ba10-236d1c5890e9-7817042.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/81\/70\/42\/640x360_cmsv2_0c018539-0dc8-545c-ba10-236d1c5890e9-7817042.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/81\/70\/42\/750x422_cmsv2_0c018539-0dc8-545c-ba10-236d1c5890e9-7817042.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/81\/70\/42\/828x466_cmsv2_0c018539-0dc8-545c-ba10-236d1c5890e9-7817042.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/81\/70\/42\/1080x608_cmsv2_0c018539-0dc8-545c-ba10-236d1c5890e9-7817042.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/81\/70\/42\/1200x675_cmsv2_0c018539-0dc8-545c-ba10-236d1c5890e9-7817042.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/81\/70\/42\/1920x1080_cmsv2_0c018539-0dc8-545c-ba10-236d1c5890e9-7817042.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">A digger in Avenida Jose Aguilar removes a row of flame trees as part of a programme to enhance the main town.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Javier Sanchez&#47;Elizabeth Scullion&#47;Handout via REUTERS&#47;File photo<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>Opponents have called the tree culling 'an atrocity'<\/h2><p>Ventura del Carmen Rodriguez, town spokesperson for the main opposition Socialist Party (PSOE), labelled the cull \"an atrocity\" and \"madness\".<\/p>\n<p>\"We are all battling <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//07//21//summer-of-extremes-is-climate-change-to-blame-for-heatwaves-and-flooding/">climate change<\/strong><\/a>, and trying to create a green San Sebastian. I don&#039;t understand it,\" she told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>Known for its stunning landscapes and the UNESCO world heritage site laurel forest at its heart, La Gomera has just recorded its hottest spring in decades and authorities there declared a water emergency in June 2022. The Canaries have suffered repeated <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//07//26//europe-heatwave-here-are-some-of-the-most-common-myths-debunked/">heatwaves this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Pressure group spokesman Javier Sanchez says the \"nonsensical\" cull has deprived the town of much needed shade and sources of oxygen, and that native and imported <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//01//18//regular-trips-to-the-park-could-reduce-peoples-reliance-on-antidepressants/">trees \"have co-existed for many years\" there.<\/p>\n<p>\"Flame trees have been planted for more than a century in the Canaries and are widely loved because they provide a lot of <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//07//28//vitiforestry-how-do-trees-play-a-role-in-protecting-vineyards-from-heatwaves-and-frosts/">shade in summer and beautiful flowers,\" he said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image 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<\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>Are flame trees an aggressive species?<\/h2><p>Laura Concepcion, biologist at the World Biosphere Reserve on neighbouring La Palma, said flame trees could not be deemed an aggressive species.<\/p>\n<p>\"It isn&#039;t <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2022//06//01//invasive-species-are-they-really-threatening-the-mediterranean-sea-and-local-fisheries/">invasive like some other ornamental plants,\" she said, while adding that the tree&#039;s powerful surface roots could, if unmanaged, cause problems in urban environments.<\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez admitted the San Sebastian flame trees&#039; roots were interfering with pipes and distorting stones in some places.<\/p>\n<p>\"But the solution isn&#039;t to cut down the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//02//01//heatwaves-kill-thousands-every-summer-heres-how-many-lives-we-could-save-by-planting-trees/">tree,/" she 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","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"How did Loewe become the planet's hottest fashion brand? ","titleListing2":"The Spanish luxury house has been around for decades but has only just become stratospherically popular. Is it down to creative director Jonathan Anderson's input? Euronews Culture investigates.","leadin":"The Spanish luxury house has been around for decades but has only just become stratospherically popular. Is it down to creative director Jonathan Anderson's input? Euronews Culture investigates.","summary":"The Spanish luxury house has been around for decades but has only just become stratospherically popular. Is it down to creative director Jonathan Anderson's input? Euronews Culture investigates.","url":"how-did-loewe-become-the-planets-hottest-fashion-brand","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"LOEWE was founded in 1846, making it LVMH's oldest luxury fashion house, but you\u2019d be forgiven for thinking the superstar brand was new to the scene. \n\nEstablished in Madrid by a group of Spanish leather craftsmen and Enrique Loewe, a merchant of Hessian origin, they were a favourite of royals and public figures alike. \n\nIn 1905, then King Alfonso XIII granted the fashion house a Royal Warrant of Appointment, making Loewe Purveyor of the Royal Household of Spain. \n\nThe brand grew in popularity decades later with celebrity fans including Ava Gardner, Ernest Hemingway, Sophia Loren , Rita Hayworth and Marlene Dietrich. \n\nMore recently, Loewe has been under the radar, ignored in favour of ever-popular luxury houses like Chanel, Gucci and Celine, to name but a few. \n\nThat\u2019s all changed this year, though, with experts naming it the hottest brand of the year. \n\nLoewe's rise to success \n\nResearch undertaken by LDMV Marketing has found that Loewe currently has over 800 million views on TikTok, with the hashtag #loewebag being one of the most popular on the platform with more than 8 million views. \n\nThat\u2019s an impressive feat for any brand and is backed up with countless fans from all quarters of the fashion industry. \n\nLast month, fashion technology company Lyst named Loewe officially as the hottest brand in the world. In its ranking of the most influential players in the fashion game, the brand went from the number 5 spot in Lyst's Q1 report, released in April, up to the top spot in Q2. \n\nOn Lyst\u2019s hottest products of Q2 list, two of Loewe\u2019s fan favourite pieces - its logo tank top and raffia tote bag - ranked at first and fourth, respectively. \n\nFollowing in the footsteps of fashion power players including Chanel, Prada and Louis Vuitton, the Spanish brand opened a new store in exclusive East Hampton, New York, last week, cementing itself firmly in the hearts of the elite. \n\nThe shop follows Loewe\u2019s creative director Jonathan Anderson\u2019s Casa Loewe store concept, offering an experience where art, craft and fashion intertwine. \n\nJonathan Anderson's influence on the brand \n\nLoewe\u2019s ability to tap into a wide aspect of the market has been part of the brand\u2019s success, according to fashion expert and founder of LDMV Marketing, Jo Threlfall. \n\n\u201cAlongside the brands clothing, accessory and bag range, Loewe also offers a home range and perfume selections, with the option to obtain sample sizes, giving consumers the opportunity to try the products before committing to a full-size purchase\u201d, she tells Euronews Culture. \n\nJonathan Anderson, perhaps best known for his eponymous brand JW Anderson and their viral frog clogs , has been at the helm of Loewe since 2013. \n\nThe Northern Irish designer seems to have his finger on the pulse of what\u2019s desirable at all times. \n\nAs well as maintaining the royal relationship - Spanish queens Sof\u00eda and Letizia often carry Loewe bags - celebrity collaborations have helped make the brand what it is today. \n\nThe label has recently signed K-pop sensation Taeyong and South Korean girl group Nmixx as brand ambassadors, a move no doubt intended to win over fans of the hugely popular music genre. \n\nAnderson has picked other representatives to promote Loewe from all corners of the celebrity world. As well as designing Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s spangled bodysuits for her Renaissance tour and dressing Rihanna for her Super Bowl halftime show, he\u2019s casted the likes of Sir Anthony Hopkins and The White Lotus star Murray Bartlett in recent adverts. \n\nCast members of the smash hit drama Succession \u00a0have also been seen in the front rows of Loewe shows and, in its recently-unveiled menswear campaign, actor Jamie Dornan and singer-songwriter Omar Apollo wear the latest collection while reading \u2018Metamorphosis\u2019 by Franz Kafka and James Frey\u2019s \u2018My Friend Leonard\u2019. \n\nLike many of Jonathan Anderson\u2019s choices, the relevance of the novels isn\u2019t obvious but his tenureship at Loewe has constantly raised eyebrows and got people talking. \n\nAnderson's wide ranging approach to Loewe's designs \n\nEuronews Culture spoke to J'Nae Phillips, Insights Editor at consumer agency Canvas8, to learn more about Anderson\u2019s fail proof approach. \n\n\n\u201cLoewe's \u2018pixelated clothing\u2019, cartoon-style high heels and anthurium breastplates are visually impactful and social media friendly\u201d, Philips explains, adding, \u201cthis helps elevate brand awareness and permeate the greater collective fashion consciousness. Loewe garments function as real-life meme-worthy content that's captivating audiences online and offline\u201d. \n\nWhile Loewe is well known for its street style favourite puffed up sunglasses and balloon and broken egg-themed shoe designs, Anderson hasn\u2019t just tapped into the avant garde side of the market. \n\n\u201cAt a time when logos are becoming less desirable, Loewe is certainly bucking that trend,\u201d stylist Bella Hignett tells Euronews Culture, adding, \u201cIts accessories are heavily branded and people are clambering to be seen in the brand and to be associated with its luxury cool image\u201d. \n\nIf you\u2019ve been on social media over the last few months, you can\u2019t have missed countless celebrities and influencers sporting the brand\u2019s tank tops. Coming in neutral colours, it\u2019ll set you back upwards of \u20ac342 but is seen as the perfect 'stealth wealth' piece .\u00a0 \n\nWith his basic pieces sitting comfortably next to unconventional yet practical bags like the Puzzle as well as even more unusual designs, Anderson has taken Loewe from \u2018just another brand\u2019 to the most lusted after on the planet. \n\n\u201cAnderson isn't afraid to take risks. He\u2019s quoted as saying that you can\u2019t underestimate the customer\u201d, Hignett adds. \u201cI think his quirkiness has made Loewe a huge success and so desirable\u201d. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>LOEWE was founded in 1846, making it LVMH&#039;s oldest luxury fashion house, but you\u2019d be forgiven for thinking the superstar brand was new to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Established in Madrid by a group of Spanish leather craftsmen and Enrique Loewe, a merchant of Hessian origin, they were a favourite of royals and public figures alike.<\/p>\n<p>In 1905, then King Alfonso XIII granted the fashion house a Royal Warrant of Appointment, making Loewe Purveyor of the Royal Household of Spain.<\/p>\n<p>The brand grew in popularity decades later with celebrity fans including Ava Gardner, Ernest Hemingway, <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2023//05//19//cultural-re-view-sophia-loren-starts-a-17-day-jail-sentence/">Sophia Loren<\/strong><\/a>, Rita Hayworth and Marlene Dietrich.<\/p>\n<p>More recently, Loewe has been under the radar, ignored in favour of ever-popular luxury houses like Chanel, Gucci and Celine, to name but a few.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s all changed this year, though, with experts naming it the hottest brand of the year.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"1.4998873112463376\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//80//71//60//808x1206_cmsv2_040b607f-eb49-50ee-b123-6ef0437d378e-7807160.jpg/" alt=\"Edward Berthelot&#47;Getty\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/80\/71\/60\/384x576_cmsv2_040b607f-eb49-50ee-b123-6ef0437d378e-7807160.jpg 384w, 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<span class=\"widget__captionText\">Actress Heart Evangelista wears a Loewe jacket, sunglasses and viral tank top to the brand&apos;s PFW show in March<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Edward Berthelot&#47;Getty<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2><strong>Loewe's rise to success<\/strong><\/h2><p>Research undertaken by LDMV Marketing has found that Loewe currently has over 800 million views on TikTok, with the hashtag #loewebag being one of the most popular on the platform with more than 8 million views.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6666666666666666\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//80//71//60//808x539_cmsv2_e04cf042-80de-5344-a835-c52da17f77f8-7807160.jpg/" alt=\"Edward Berthelot&#47;Getty\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/80\/71\/60\/384x256_cmsv2_e04cf042-80de-5344-a835-c52da17f77f8-7807160.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/80\/71\/60\/640x427_cmsv2_e04cf042-80de-5344-a835-c52da17f77f8-7807160.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/80\/71\/60\/750x500_cmsv2_e04cf042-80de-5344-a835-c52da17f77f8-7807160.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/80\/71\/60\/828x552_cmsv2_e04cf042-80de-5344-a835-c52da17f77f8-7807160.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/80\/71\/60\/1080x720_cmsv2_e04cf042-80de-5344-a835-c52da17f77f8-7807160.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/80\/71\/60\/1200x800_cmsv2_e04cf042-80de-5344-a835-c52da17f77f8-7807160.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/80\/71\/60\/1920x1280_cmsv2_e04cf042-80de-5344-a835-c52da17f77f8-7807160.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Influencer twins Humaid Nadban and Mohammed Nadban tote Loewe&apos;s ever-popular Puzzle bag at Paris Fashion Week<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Edward Berthelot&#47;Getty<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s an impressive feat for any brand and is backed up with countless fans from all quarters of the fashion industry.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, fashion technology company Lyst named Loewe officially as the hottest brand in the world. In its ranking of the most influential players in the fashion game, the brand went from the number 5 spot in Lyst&#039;s Q1 report, released in April, up to the top spot in Q2.<\/p>\n<p>On Lyst\u2019s hottest products of Q2 list, two of Loewe\u2019s fan favourite pieces - its logo tank top and raffia tote bag - ranked at first and fourth, respectively.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"1.5\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//80//71//60//808x1206_cmsv2_d8c0ab58-51e8-5ffd-8d4f-82bf83f02871-7807160.jpg/" alt=\"Kevin Mazur&#47;Getty\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/80\/71\/60\/384x576_cmsv2_d8c0ab58-51e8-5ffd-8d4f-82bf83f02871-7807160.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/80\/71\/60\/640x960_cmsv2_d8c0ab58-51e8-5ffd-8d4f-82bf83f02871-7807160.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/80\/71\/60\/750x1125_cmsv2_d8c0ab58-51e8-5ffd-8d4f-82bf83f02871-7807160.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/80\/71\/60\/828x1242_cmsv2_d8c0ab58-51e8-5ffd-8d4f-82bf83f02871-7807160.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/80\/71\/60\/1080x1620_cmsv2_d8c0ab58-51e8-5ffd-8d4f-82bf83f02871-7807160.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/80\/71\/60\/1200x1800_cmsv2_d8c0ab58-51e8-5ffd-8d4f-82bf83f02871-7807160.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/80\/71\/60\/1920x2880_cmsv2_d8c0ab58-51e8-5ffd-8d4f-82bf83f02871-7807160.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Beyonce performs in a Loewe bodysuit on her Renaissance tour<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Kevin Mazur&#47;Getty<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Following in the footsteps of fashion power players including Chanel, Prada and Louis Vuitton, the Spanish brand opened a new store in exclusive East Hampton, New York, last week, cementing itself firmly in the hearts of the elite.<\/p>\n<p>The shop follows Loewe\u2019s creative director Jonathan Anderson\u2019s Casa Loewe store concept, offering an experience where art, craft and fashion intertwine.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6513671875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//80//71//60//808x525_cmsv2_42e3f52c-04dd-5d77-a6ae-d13b2881681d-7807160.jpg/" alt=\"Brett Beyer&#47;Loewe\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/80\/71\/60\/384x250_cmsv2_42e3f52c-04dd-5d77-a6ae-d13b2881681d-7807160.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/80\/71\/60\/640x417_cmsv2_42e3f52c-04dd-5d77-a6ae-d13b2881681d-7807160.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/80\/71\/60\/750x489_cmsv2_42e3f52c-04dd-5d77-a6ae-d13b2881681d-7807160.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/80\/71\/60\/828x539_cmsv2_42e3f52c-04dd-5d77-a6ae-d13b2881681d-7807160.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/80\/71\/60\/1080x703_cmsv2_42e3f52c-04dd-5d77-a6ae-d13b2881681d-7807160.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/80\/71\/60\/1200x782_cmsv2_42e3f52c-04dd-5d77-a6ae-d13b2881681d-7807160.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/80\/71\/60\/1920x1251_cmsv2_42e3f52c-04dd-5d77-a6ae-d13b2881681d-7807160.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Loewe&apos;s recently opened store in East Hampton, New York<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Brett Beyer&#47;Loewe<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2><strong>Jonathan Anderson's influence on the brand<\/strong><\/h2><p>Loewe\u2019s ability to tap into a wide aspect of the market has been part of the brand\u2019s success, according to fashion expert and founder of LDMV Marketing, Jo Threlfall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlongside the brands clothing, accessory and bag range, Loewe also offers a home range and perfume selections, with the option to obtain sample sizes, giving consumers the opportunity to try the products before committing to a full-size purchase\u201d, she tells Euronews Culture.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Anderson, perhaps best known for his eponymous brand JW Anderson and their <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2023//07//01//the-eternal-style-icon-princess-dianas-legendary-fashion-sense-explored/">viral frog clogs<\/strong><\/a>, has been at the helm of Loewe since 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The Northern Irish designer seems to have his finger on the pulse of what\u2019s desirable at all times.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"1.6640316205533596\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//80//71//60//808x1347_cmsv2_c8eadf6d-8637-5a90-9180-dc9afa444720-7807160.jpg/" alt=\"Europa Press Entertainment via Getty\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/80\/71\/60\/384x639_cmsv2_c8eadf6d-8637-5a90-9180-dc9afa444720-7807160.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/80\/71\/60\/640x1065_cmsv2_c8eadf6d-8637-5a90-9180-dc9afa444720-7807160.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/80\/71\/60\/750x1248_cmsv2_c8eadf6d-8637-5a90-9180-dc9afa444720-7807160.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/80\/71\/60\/828x1378_cmsv2_c8eadf6d-8637-5a90-9180-dc9afa444720-7807160.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/80\/71\/60\/1080x1797_cmsv2_c8eadf6d-8637-5a90-9180-dc9afa444720-7807160.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/80\/71\/60\/1200x1997_cmsv2_c8eadf6d-8637-5a90-9180-dc9afa444720-7807160.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/80\/71\/60\/1920x3195_cmsv2_c8eadf6d-8637-5a90-9180-dc9afa444720-7807160.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Queen Letizia of Spain carries a Loewe handbag in Madrid<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Europa Press Entertainment via Getty<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>As well as maintaining the royal relationship - Spanish queens Sof\u00eda and Letizia often carry Loewe bags - celebrity collaborations have helped make the brand what it is today.<\/p>\n<p>The label has recently signed K-pop sensation Taeyong and South Korean girl group Nmixx as brand ambassadors, a move no doubt intended to win over fans of the hugely popular music genre.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6554\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//80//71//60//808x528_cmsv2_691665b3-1d03-5d26-813c-686c0d9cb16b-7807160.jpg/" alt=\"Kevin Mazur&#47;Getty\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/80\/71\/60\/384x252_cmsv2_691665b3-1d03-5d26-813c-686c0d9cb16b-7807160.jpg 384w, 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<span class=\"widget__captionText\">Rihanna performs at the Super Bowl halftime show in February, dressed in Loewe<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Kevin Mazur&#47;Getty<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Anderson has picked other representatives to promote Loewe from all corners of the celebrity world. As well as designing Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s spangled bodysuits for her Renaissance tour and dressing Rihanna for her Super Bowl halftime show, he\u2019s casted the likes of Sir Anthony Hopkins and <strong><a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2022//12//09//best-of-culture-2022-day-9-the-white-lotus-season-2/">The White Lotus<\/a><\/strong> star Murray Bartlett in recent adverts.<\/p>\n<p>Cast members of the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2023//04//01//borecore-it-costs-a-lot-of-money-to-look-this-dull/">smash hit drama Succession<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0have also been seen in the front rows of Loewe shows and, in its recently-unveiled menswear campaign, actor Jamie Dornan and singer-songwriter Omar Apollo wear the latest collection while reading \u2018Metamorphosis\u2019 by Franz Kafka and James Frey\u2019s \u2018My Friend Leonard\u2019.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"1.5\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//80//71//60//808x1206_cmsv2_ccbb457b-d264-578b-88cf-0b1cec147b16-7807160.jpg/" alt=\"Swan Gallet&#47;WWD via Getty Images\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/80\/71\/60\/384x576_cmsv2_ccbb457b-d264-578b-88cf-0b1cec147b16-7807160.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/80\/71\/60\/640x960_cmsv2_ccbb457b-d264-578b-88cf-0b1cec147b16-7807160.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/80\/71\/60\/750x1125_cmsv2_ccbb457b-d264-578b-88cf-0b1cec147b16-7807160.jpg 750w, 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<\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Like many of Jonathan Anderson\u2019s choices, the relevance of the novels isn\u2019t obvious but his tenureship at Loewe has constantly raised eyebrows and got people talking.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Anderson's wide ranging approach to Loewe's designs<\/strong><\/h2><div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6653513716647876\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//80//71//60//808x539_cmsv2_9bf4fcd0-5c6b-58cf-8a48-95a894475780-7807160.jpg/" alt=\"Raimonda Kulikauskiene&#47;Getty\" 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Coming in neutral colours, it\u2019ll set you back upwards of \u20ac342 but is seen as the perfect <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2023//06//28//whats-behind-the-quiet-luxury-trend-and-how-long-can-it-last/">&#039;stealth wealth&#039; piece<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"1.296\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//80//71//60//808x1049_cmsv2_9f1872a7-d00f-53e6-b1b1-3a564795312a-7807160.jpg/" alt=\"MEGA&#47;Getty\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/80\/71\/60\/384x498_cmsv2_9f1872a7-d00f-53e6-b1b1-3a564795312a-7807160.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/80\/71\/60\/640x829_cmsv2_9f1872a7-d00f-53e6-b1b1-3a564795312a-7807160.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/80\/71\/60\/750x972_cmsv2_9f1872a7-d00f-53e6-b1b1-3a564795312a-7807160.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/80\/71\/60\/828x1073_cmsv2_9f1872a7-d00f-53e6-b1b1-3a564795312a-7807160.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/80\/71\/60\/1080x1400_cmsv2_9f1872a7-d00f-53e6-b1b1-3a564795312a-7807160.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/80\/71\/60\/1200x1555_cmsv2_9f1872a7-d00f-53e6-b1b1-3a564795312a-7807160.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/80\/71\/60\/1920x2488_cmsv2_9f1872a7-d00f-53e6-b1b1-3a564795312a-7807160.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Kylie Jenner wears the viral Loewe tank top and coordinating underwear<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">MEGA&#47;Getty<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>With his basic pieces sitting comfortably next to unconventional yet practical bags like the Puzzle as well as even more unusual designs, Anderson has taken Loewe from \u2018just another brand\u2019 to the most lusted after on the planet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnderson isn&#039;t afraid to take risks. 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sets new heat record during third Spanish heatwave of the summer","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Valencia: Record-breaking temperature of 46.8\u00b0C seen in coastal city","titleListing2":"Valencia sets new heat record during third Spanish heatwave of the summer","leadin":"Local residents say the city is 'unlivebable'.","summary":"Local residents say the city is 'unlivebable'.","url":"valencia-sets-new-heat-record-during-third-spanish-heatwave-of-the-summer","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"The Spanish city of Valencia broke a heat record yesterday when it hit 46.8\u00b0C. \n\nThe new record was set at Valencia airport, the Spanish meteorological agency Aemet said.\u00a0 \n\nThe extreme heat has made living conditions miserable in the Mediterranean coastal city. \n\n\n\"This summer was horrible (...) we can't live in our apartments,\" says Valencia resident Nazim Ali. \n\n\"At night, we put on the air conditioning or the fan. During the day, we try to leave as late as possible (...) and we go to the beach\", says Roberto Gim\u00e9nez, another resident. \n\nSpanish cities are on 'red alert' \n\n\nSpain is in the midst of its third heatwave of the summmer. \n\nEight areas around the cities of Valencia and Murcia are on red alert, meaning extreme risk due to heat. \n\nSix stations around Valencia and the neighbouring city of Castell\u00f3n recorded temperatures above 44\u00b0C on Thursday.\u00a0 \n\nOn Wednesday, two areas near Seville and Granada , in Andalusia, exceeded this threshold. \n\nWhat is the hottest temperature ever in Spain? \n\n\nThe historic record for Spain was broken on August 14, 2021, with 47.6\u00b0C recorded at La Rambla, south of Cordoba, in Andalusia (south). \n\nCheck out this full list of heat records of each European country . \n\n\nWhat is causing the heatwaves? \n\n\nScientists say the increase in heatwaves , as well as their increasing duration and intensity, is due to climate change. \n\nWildfires are far more likely during extreme heat, coupled with drought . \n\n\nMore than 1,300 hectares have burned in less than a week in Spain. Nearly 71,000 hectares have burned since the start of the year, according to the European Forest Fire Information System (Effis), lower than the 2022 record when more than 300,000 hectares destroyed. \n\nCheck out this explainer on how climate change causes heatwaves . \n\n\n","htmlText":"<p>The Spanish city of Valencia broke a heat record yesterday when it hit 46.8\u00b0C.<\/p>\n<p>The new record was set at Valencia airport, the Spanish meteorological agency Aemet said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The extreme heat has made living conditions miserable in the Mediterranean coastal city. <\/p>\n<p>\"This summer was horrible (...) we can&#039;t live in our apartments,\" says Valencia resident Nazim Ali.<\/p>\n<p>\"At night, we put on the air conditioning or the fan. During the day, we try to leave as late as possible (...) and we go to the beach\", says Roberto Gim\u00e9nez, another resident.<\/p>\n<h2>Spanish cities are on 'red alert'<\/h2><p><a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//07//06//spain-is-getting-hotter-drier-and-more-flammable-due-to-climate-change-greenpeace-warns/">Spain is in the midst of its third heatwave of the summmer.<\/p>\n<p>Eight areas around the cities of Valencia and <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//05//03//murcias-farmers-fear-desertification-as-spain-cuts-water-supplies-from-river-tagus/">Murcia are on red alert, meaning extreme risk due to heat.<\/p>\n<p>Six stations around Valencia and the neighbouring city of Castell\u00f3n recorded temperatures above 44\u00b0C on Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, two areas near Seville and <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2022//11//17//budget-travellers-should-head-to-this-under-the-radar-spanish-city-for-free-museums-and-ba/">Granada, in Andalusia, exceeded this threshold.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7233478,7196794\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2022//12//06//valencia-uses-lampposts-to-charge-electric-vehicles-in-sustainable-project/">Valencia uses lampposts to charge electric cars in bid to become carbon neutral<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2022//11//16//valencia-heres-why-you-should-visit-the-green-capital-of-europe-in-2024/">Valencia: Here's why you should visit the Green Capital of Europe in 2024<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>What is the hottest temperature ever in Spain?<\/h2><p>The historic record for Spain was broken on August 14, 2021, with 47.6\u00b0C recorded at La Rambla, south of Cordoba, in Andalusia (south).<\/p>\n<p>Check out this full list of <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//07//18//hottest-temperatures-ever-how-do-countries-in-europe-compare/">heat records of each European country<\/strong><\/a>. <\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7779618,7808696\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2023//08//08//mauritius-rather-than-mallorca-how-the-heat-waves-are-changing-our-summer-holidays/">Mauritius rather than Mallorca? How heatwaves are changing our summer holidays<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//08//08//the-worlds-biggest-heatwave-happened-in-antarctica-last-year-what-does-this-mean-for-our-p/">The world\u2019s biggest heatwave happened in Antarctica last year - what does this mean for our planet?<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>What is causing the heatwaves?<\/h2><p>Scientists say the increase in <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//08//02//europe-reluctantly-turns-to-air-conditioning-as-heatwaves-bite-data-shows/">heatwaves, as well as their increasing duration and intensity, is due to climate change.<\/p>\n<p><a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//08//01//what-are-the-health-effects-of-wildfires-and-how-can-i-protect-myself/">Wildfires are far more likely during extreme heat, coupled with <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//08//09//we-have-never-seen-it-so-low-spain-introduces-water-restrictions-as-reservoirs-run-dry/">drought. <\/p>\n<p>More than 1,300 hectares have burned in less than a week in Spain. Nearly 71,000 hectares have burned since the start of the year, according to the European Forest Fire Information System (Effis), lower than the 2022 record when more than 300,000 hectares destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>Check out this explainer on <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//07//21//summer-of-extremes-is-climate-change-to-blame-for-heatwaves-and-flooding/">how climate change causes heatwaves<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1691743122,"publishedAt":1691753106,"updatedAt":1691753111,"expiresAt":0,"canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2023\/08\/11\/valencia-sets-new-heat-record-during-third-spanish-heatwave-of-the-summer","images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/81\/64\/54\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_5088c377-1b4d-5e78-bd1e-f73e02d66b58-7816454.jpg","altText":"Pedro, 48, and Juan, 45, metal workers, repair a guardrail on the Burjassot road during a heat wave near Valencia, Spain July 18, 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wars: Costa chaos as tourists fight for a place by the pool","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Sunbed wars: Costa chaos as tourists fight for a place by the pool","titleListing2":"\ud83c\udfd6 Hotels say without sunbed controls 'it would be a jungle' as tourists compete for prime locations at hotels all along the Spanish coast \ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddf8","leadin":"Hotels say without sunbed controls 'it would be a jungle' as tourists compete for prime locations at hotels all along the Spanish coast.","summary":"Hotels say without sunbed controls 'it would be a jungle' as tourists compete for prime locations at hotels all along the Spanish coast.","url":"sunbed-wars-costa-chaos-as-tourists-fight-for-a-place-by-the-pool","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"It's day three of the sunbed wars at the Paradise Park Hotel in Spain\u2019s Canary Islands. \n\nAt the large tropical lagoon-style swimming pool, a crowd of guests suddenly emerges, rushing to be the first to lay their towels on a sunbed. \n\nIt's the start of chaos. \n\nThe swarm of tourists sprints the 20 metres from the pool entrance to the sunbeds - and one man takes the lead, managing to put towels on five sunbeds.\u00a0 \n\nIt's game, set and match for the remaining customers who watch in astonishment. \n\nThe incident only came to light after a video went viral in mid-July, although the hotel's management declined to comment on what happened when contacted by Euronews. \n\nYou might think this is a rare incident at resorts along the Spanish coastline, but it's happening on a daily basis, sometimes menacingly.\u00a0 \n\nThe latest incident took place this week, also in the Canary Islands, when two British tourists kicked a mother out of her sunbed to steal her place,\u00a0according to Britain's Daily Mail newspaper. \n\nTo avoid these clashes, Spanish hotels are getting creative. \n\nSunbed controller to the rescue \n\nAt six-thirty in the morning, the line starts forming outside the swimming pool at the Sunset Beach Club Hotel on Spain's famous Costa del Sol. \n\nThe venue will not open until nine, but there's already a queue of about thirty people. \n\n\"We have customers here who are very proud to be the first in line. We have set up security so that when we open the door, there is no pushing and shoving and no sneaking in,\" Miguel Marcos, the hotel's director, told Euronews. \n\n\"If we didn't have controls, it would be a jungle,\" he adds. \n\nOrganisation is key at this hotel, which has 700 sunbeds to be shared by the 1,800 guests. \n\nAt nine o'clock Jos\u00e9 Carlos, the hotel's sunbed controller, opens the doors and the towel game begins. \n\n\"There is a war for the best spots, but for the rest of the day there is really no problem. Every summer there\u2019s a war, however this year it's much quieter,\" says Jos\u00e9 Carlos, who has worked as a sunbed controller for the last three years. \n\nNot all share the same enthusiasm for being the first to arrive, however, and there are many who watch the scene with amazement. \n\nThe most experienced customers are the ones who race for the best sunbeds. When asked, the director draws a clear profile. \n\n\"There are people who have been coming for years and want a particular sunbed, others want to be near the pool for the children, or to see the sea. Then there are those who come with friends and want to be all together,\" says Marcos. \n\nThe Costa del Sol has had a \"sweet year\", recording the best figures in its history, according to the president of the Costa del Sol Tourism and Planning Board, Francisco Salado. \n\nDespite the lower number of visitors, tourist revenues have increased 18.3% to \u20ac17,081 million. \n\nTo cope with the demand, Sunset Beach Club Hotel has cut down palm trees and bought more sunbeds to extend the pool area, saying that while in the past tourists preferred to go to the beach, this trend has changed in recent years. \n\nProtocols have also been put in place to avoid conflicts. \n\nSunbed controllers walk around the pool to locate the hammocks that are falsely occupied and leave a warning. After an hour, they return and if there is still no one there, they take away the things left behind to release the sunbed for another customer to use. \n\nThere are clues that put them on alert. \"If they leave a book on the hammock at 9.30 in the morning, we know they are saving it. Others leave a single towel to cover four sunbeds,\" says Jos\u00e9 Carlos. \n\n\"The bravest jump in the pool in the early hours of the morning, put their towels where they want them and go back to bed,\" adds the hotel manager. \n\nThe sunbed controller\u2019s job has been specially designed so that guests can enjoy the pool without any surprises. \n\n\"The name is very well chosen, it helps to avoid fights between people. Although it's true that some get angry with us when we take away their towels,\" says Jos\u00e9 Carlos. \n\nNevertheless, the method has proved effective, as many customers repeat the experience, but not so many learn the lesson. \n\n\"It's like Groundhog Day all over again,\" says the manager. \n\n\u20ac5,000 a day as sunbed saver \n\nIn 2020, Alexia Parmigiani left her business in London and moved to Ibiza. \n\nWhen she arrived on the Spanish island, she figured out that sunbeds could make her a fortune. \n\nTourists on the island would party until the early hours and then find it impossible to get up early enough to book a sunbed by the pool. Nevertheless, they wanted the coveted spots. \n\nOne of the most popular services offered by Parmigiani, who now works for luxury concierge company Queen of Clubs, is 'Hold My Sunbed'. \n\nThe British woman will hold a sunbed for you in exchange for around \u20ac500. In high season she could have up to ten clients a day, generating a cash flow of \u20ac5,000, Parmigiani said in a recent interview.\u00a0 \n\nHer modus operandi is to make agreements with the owners of the best clubs or beaches to be able to offer this service. When she\u2019s hired, Parmigiani goes to the club when it opens, at ten in the morning, and haggles for the best spot by the pool. \n\nShe then makes her way to the sunbed and keeps an eye out to make sure that nobody gets the one her client wants. Armed with a fan, she waits for hours until the customer decides to show up. \n\nAs she told the media, she never sits on the beds while she waits, as she risks wrinkling the towels. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>It&#039;s day three of the sunbed wars at the Paradise Park Hotel in Spain\u2019s Canary Islands.<\/p>\n<p>At the large tropical lagoon-style swimming pool, a crowd of guests suddenly emerges, rushing to be the first to lay their towels on a sunbed.<\/p>\n<p>It&#039;s the start of chaos.<\/p>\n<p>The swarm of tourists sprints the 20 metres from the pool entrance to the sunbeds - and one man takes the lead, managing to put towels on five sunbeds.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It&#039;s game, set and match for the remaining customers who watch in astonishment.<\/p>\n<p>The incident only came to light after a video went viral in mid-July, although the hotel&#039;s management declined to comment on what happened when contacted by Euronews.<\/p>\n<p>You might think this is a rare incident at resorts along the Spanish coastline, but it&#039;s happening on a daily basis, sometimes menacingly.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The latest incident took place this week, also in the Canary Islands, when two British tourists kicked a mother out of her sunbed to steal her place,\u00a0according to Britain&#039;s Daily Mail newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>To avoid these clashes, Spanish hotels are getting creative.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.486328125\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//81//47//90//808x392_cmsv2_90cc2c6f-2bb2-5157-a42d-4bb207741df2-7814790.jpg/" alt=\"Janet Blackmon Morgan &#47;AP\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/81\/47\/90\/384x187_cmsv2_90cc2c6f-2bb2-5157-a42d-4bb207741df2-7814790.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/81\/47\/90\/640x311_cmsv2_90cc2c6f-2bb2-5157-a42d-4bb207741df2-7814790.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/81\/47\/90\/750x365_cmsv2_90cc2c6f-2bb2-5157-a42d-4bb207741df2-7814790.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/81\/47\/90\/828x403_cmsv2_90cc2c6f-2bb2-5157-a42d-4bb207741df2-7814790.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/81\/47\/90\/1080x525_cmsv2_90cc2c6f-2bb2-5157-a42d-4bb207741df2-7814790.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/81\/47\/90\/1200x584_cmsv2_90cc2c6f-2bb2-5157-a42d-4bb207741df2-7814790.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/81\/47\/90\/1920x934_cmsv2_90cc2c6f-2bb2-5157-a42d-4bb207741df2-7814790.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Archive pictures of sunbathers.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Janet Blackmon Morgan &#47;AP<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>Sunbed controller to the rescue<\/h2><p>At six-thirty in the morning, the line starts forming outside the swimming pool at the Sunset Beach Club Hotel on Spain&#039;s famous Costa del Sol.<\/p>\n<p>The venue will not open until nine, but there&#039;s already a queue of about thirty people.<\/p>\n<p>\"We have customers here who are very proud to be the first in line. We have set up security so that when we open the door, there is no pushing and shoving and no sneaking in,\" Miguel Marcos, the hotel&#039;s director, told Euronews.<\/p>\n<p>\"If we didn&#039;t have controls, it would be a jungle,\" he adds.<\/p>\n<p>Organisation is key at this hotel, which has 700 sunbeds to be shared by the 1,800 guests.<\/p>\n<p>At nine o&#039;clock Jos\u00e9 Carlos, the hotel&#039;s sunbed controller, opens the doors and the towel game begins.<\/p>\n<p>\"There is a war for the best spots, but for the rest of the day there is really no problem. Every summer there\u2019s a war, however this year it&#039;s much quieter,\" says Jos\u00e9 Carlos, who has worked as a sunbed controller for the last three years.<\/p>\n<p>Not all share the same enthusiasm for being the first to arrive, however, and there are many who watch the scene with amazement.<\/p>\n<p>The most experienced customers are the ones who race for the best sunbeds. When asked, the director draws a clear profile.<\/p>\n<p>\"There are people who have been coming for years and want a particular sunbed, others want to be near the pool for the children, or to see the sea. Then there are those who come with friends and want to be all together,\" says Marcos.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//81//47//90//808x454_cmsv2_17df100f-9f4f-5f31-a6e6-79bd1d2eed61-7814790.jpg/" alt=\"Euronews\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/81\/47\/90\/384x216_cmsv2_17df100f-9f4f-5f31-a6e6-79bd1d2eed61-7814790.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/81\/47\/90\/640x360_cmsv2_17df100f-9f4f-5f31-a6e6-79bd1d2eed61-7814790.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/81\/47\/90\/750x422_cmsv2_17df100f-9f4f-5f31-a6e6-79bd1d2eed61-7814790.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/81\/47\/90\/828x466_cmsv2_17df100f-9f4f-5f31-a6e6-79bd1d2eed61-7814790.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/81\/47\/90\/1080x608_cmsv2_17df100f-9f4f-5f31-a6e6-79bd1d2eed61-7814790.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/81\/47\/90\/1200x675_cmsv2_17df100f-9f4f-5f31-a6e6-79bd1d2eed61-7814790.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/81\/47\/90\/1920x1080_cmsv2_17df100f-9f4f-5f31-a6e6-79bd1d2eed61-7814790.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Map of the Costa del Sol, in the south of Spain.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Euronews<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The Costa del Sol has had a \"sweet year\", recording the best figures in its history, according to the president of the Costa del Sol Tourism and Planning Board, Francisco Salado.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the lower number of visitors, tourist revenues have increased 18.3% to \u20ac17,081 million.<\/p>\n<p>To cope with the demand, Sunset Beach Club Hotel has cut down palm trees and bought more sunbeds to extend the pool area, saying that while in the past tourists preferred to go to the beach, this trend has changed in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>Protocols have also been put in place to avoid conflicts.<\/p>\n<p>Sunbed controllers walk around the pool to locate the hammocks that are falsely occupied and leave a warning. After an hour, they return and if there is still no one there, they take away the things left behind to release the sunbed for another customer to use.<\/p>\n<p>There are clues that put them on alert. \"If they leave a book on the hammock at 9.30 in the morning, we know they are saving it. Others leave a single towel to cover four sunbeds,\" says Jos\u00e9 Carlos.<\/p>\n<p>\"The bravest jump in the pool in the early hours of the morning, put their towels where they want them and go back to bed,\" adds the hotel manager.<\/p>\n<p>The sunbed controller\u2019s job has been specially designed so that guests can enjoy the pool without any surprises.<\/p>\n<p>\"The name is very well chosen, it helps to avoid fights between people. Although it&#039;s true that some get angry with us when we take away their towels,\" says Jos\u00e9 Carlos.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, the method has proved effective, as many customers repeat the experience, but not so many learn the lesson.<\/p>\n<p>\"It&#039;s like Groundhog Day all over again,\" says the manager.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//81//47//90//808x539_cmsv2_ff0b1e3c-77d9-5452-9497-d08f317fbd3f-7814790.jpg/" alt=\"Andrew Medichini&#47;Copyright 2021 The AP. All rights reserved\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/81\/47\/90\/384x256_cmsv2_ff0b1e3c-77d9-5452-9497-d08f317fbd3f-7814790.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/81\/47\/90\/640x427_cmsv2_ff0b1e3c-77d9-5452-9497-d08f317fbd3f-7814790.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/81\/47\/90\/750x500_cmsv2_ff0b1e3c-77d9-5452-9497-d08f317fbd3f-7814790.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/81\/47\/90\/828x552_cmsv2_ff0b1e3c-77d9-5452-9497-d08f317fbd3f-7814790.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/81\/47\/90\/1080x720_cmsv2_ff0b1e3c-77d9-5452-9497-d08f317fbd3f-7814790.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/81\/47\/90\/1200x800_cmsv2_ff0b1e3c-77d9-5452-9497-d08f317fbd3f-7814790.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/81\/47\/90\/1920x1281_cmsv2_ff0b1e3c-77d9-5452-9497-d08f317fbd3f-7814790.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Passengers enjoy the sun by a swimming pool on board of a cruise ship.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Andrew Medichini&#47;Copyright 2021 The AP. All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>\u20ac5,000 a day as sunbed saver<\/h2><p>In 2020, Alexia Parmigiani left her business in London and moved to Ibiza.<\/p>\n<p>When she arrived on the Spanish island, she figured out that sunbeds could make her a fortune.<\/p>\n<p>Tourists on the island would party until the early hours and then find it impossible to get up early enough to book a sunbed by the pool. Nevertheless, they wanted the coveted spots.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most popular services offered by Parmigiani, who now works for luxury concierge company Queen of Clubs, is &#039;Hold My Sunbed&#039;.<\/p>\n<p>The British woman will hold a sunbed for you in exchange for around \u20ac500. In high season she could have up to ten clients a day, generating a cash flow of \u20ac5,000, Parmigiani said in a recent interview.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Her modus operandi is to make agreements with the owners of the best clubs or beaches to be able to offer this service. When she\u2019s hired, Parmigiani goes to the club when it opens, at ten in the morning, and haggles for the best spot by the pool.<\/p>\n<p>She then makes her way to the sunbed and keeps an eye out to make sure that nobody gets the one her client wants. Armed with a fan, she waits for hours until the customer decides to show up.<\/p>\n<p>As she told the media, she never sits on the beds while she waits, as she risks wrinkling the towels.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1691671273,"publishedAt":1691733329,"updatedAt":1691740227,"expiresAt":0,"canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/08\/11\/sunbed-wars-costa-chaos-as-tourists-fight-for-a-place-by-the-pool","images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/81\/47\/90\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_2c555ac9-be2c-5176-8940-2883fce07671-7814790.jpg","altText":"Hotels are implementing measures to prevent so-called sunbedwars.","caption":"Hotels are implementing measures to prevent so-called sunbedwars.","captionCredit":"Euronews","captionUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"sourceUrl":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1600,"height":900},{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/81\/47\/90\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_ff0b1e3c-77d9-5452-9497-d08f317fbd3f-7814790.jpg","altText":"Passengers enjoy the sun by a swimming pool on board of a cruise ship.","caption":"Passengers enjoy the sun by a swimming pool on board of a cruise ship.","captionCredit":"Andrew Medichini\/Copyright 2021 The AP. 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sweltering in third heatwave of the summer","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Spain sweltering in third heatwave of the summer","titleListing2":"Spain sweltering in third heatwave of the summer","leadin":"Meteorologists in Spain say they expect the extreme heat to last until Friday at the earliest, in the country's third heatwave this summer.","summary":"Meteorologists in Spain say they expect the extreme heat to last until Friday at the earliest, in the country's third heatwave this summer.","url":"spain-sweltering-in-third-heatwave-of-the-summer","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Spain is sweltering in another heatwave that meteorologists warn could be the \"most extreme of the summer\" and has triggered widespread weather alerts. \n\nMuch of the southern part of the country was on orange alert on Tuesday with temperatures expected to surge above 40C in 25 of the country's 50 provincial capitals. \n\nThe meteorological agency also issued maximum red alerts for parts of Andalusia in the 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","summary":"A drought emergency has been declared in some parts of Catalonia where people are being urged to reduce their water consumption. ","url":"we-have-never-seen-it-so-low-spain-introduces-water-restrictions-as-reservoirs-run-dry","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Catalonia declared a drought emergency in 24 municipalities last week following a lack of rainfall over the last 30 months.\u00a0 \n\nReservoir levels are low and water restrictions have been imposed because of the drought.\u00a0\u00a0 \n\nThe Darnius Boadella reservoir in north eastern Spain is just 20 per cent full.\u00a0 \n\n\nArtur Duran holds his hand out by his waist to show the level of water he remembers two years ago.\u00a0 Then, it was still deep enough for sailing. Now a long drought has nearly emptied it. \n\n\"We have never seen (it) so low,\" the 79-year-old local resident told Reuters at the reservoir. \n\nDrought is leaving reservoirs empty \n\nPeople sunbathed on the reservoir's newly-exposed shore, where a few specks of grass have cropped up. Some visitors tried to paddle-surf. \n\nCatalonia's authorities last week imposed new water usage restrictions on 22 villages around the reservoir, near the French border, as the aquifer supplying them is also emptying. \n\nSpain registered the driest start to a year in the first four months of 2023 since records began in the 1960s, with Catalonia and southern Spain's Andalusia being the most affected. \n\nSeveral heatwaves recorded in Spain and wider Europe this summer have worsened the drought, lowering reservoirs' levels as water evaporation and consumption increased, said Ruben del Campo, spokesperson for Spain's meteorological agency AEMET. \n\nCatalonia declares a drought emergency in dozens of villages \n\nThe 22 villages, plus two others in southern Catalonia, which account for around 25,000 residents in total, are in a state of water emergency . \n\nThis means they must lower their consumption to a daily average of 200 litres of water per resident from a prior cap of 230.\u00a0 \n\nAuthorities are not limiting water for human consumption yet, but watering for agricultural purposes will be largely banned, and water use for industrial and recreational purposes has to drop by 25 per cent. \n\nThe village of Agullana with 900 residents has been keeping its water usage below the 200-litre cap for several months, but its mayor said further steps will be implemented. \n\n\"We'll reduce to zero the irrigation of gardens, the football field, the grass by the swimming pool, which we'll see turning yellow as if burnt,\" Josep Jovell said.\u00a0 \n\nNo water will be used to clean the streets, only dry sweeping, he added. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Catalonia declared a drought emergency in 24 municipalities last week following a lack of rainfall over the last 30 months.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Reservoir levels are low and water restrictions have been imposed because of the drought.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Darnius Boadella reservoir in north eastern Spain is just 20 per cent full.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>Artur Duran holds his hand out by his waist to show the level of water he remembers two years ago.\u00a0Then, it was still deep enough for sailing. Now a <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//06//19//flamingos-forced-to-find-new-habitat-as-spain-drought-dries-up-wetlands/">long drought<\/strong><\/a> has nearly emptied it.<\/p>\n<p>\"We have never seen (it) so low,\" the 79-year-old local resident told Reuters at the reservoir.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7808642,7791776\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//08//08//july-breaks-record-for-earths-hottest-ever-month/">July was Earth's hottest month on record with 'dire consequences' for people and planet<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//08//01//what-are-the-health-effects-of-wildfires-and-how-can-i-protect-myself/">What are the health effects of wildfires and how can I protect myself?<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>Drought is leaving reservoirs empty<\/h2><p>People sunbathed on the reservoir&#039;s newly-exposed shore, where a few specks of grass have cropped up. Some visitors tried to paddle-surf.<\/p>\n<p>Catalonia&#039;s authorities last week imposed new <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//05//09//water-gaps-where-in-europe-is-most-at-risk-of-water-shortages-and-what-can-be-done-about-i/">water usage restrictions<\/strong><\/a> on 22 villages around the reservoir, near the French border, as the aquifer supplying them is also emptying.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-ease-in-up widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6666666666666666\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//81//17//34//808x539_cmsv2_694d3543-aa89-5dbd-a69e-61285f6652ba-7811734.jpg/" alt=\"REUTERS&#47;Nacho Doce\" 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(max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">A tourist from France walks with his paddle board on Boadella reservoir.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">REUTERS&#47;Nacho Doce<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Spain registered the driest start to a year in the first four months of 2023 since records began in the 1960s, with Catalonia and southern Spain&#039;s Andalusia being the most affected.<\/p>\n<p><a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//08//09//volcanoes-shipping-and-dust-what-else-could-be-fuelling-this-summers-heatwaves/">Several heatwaves recorded in Spain and wider Europe<\/strong><\/a> this summer have worsened the drought, lowering reservoirs&#039; levels as water evaporation and consumption increased, said Ruben del Campo, spokesperson for Spain&#039;s meteorological agency AEMET.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7807696,7808696\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//08//08//the-worlds-biggest-heatwave-happened-in-antarctica-last-year-what-does-this-mean-for-our-p/">The world\u2019s biggest heatwave happened in Antarctica last year - what does this mean for our planet?<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//08//08//torrential-rain-flash-floods-and-raging-wildfires-europes-extreme-summer/">Torrential rain, flash floods and raging wildfires: Europe\u2019s extreme summer<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>Catalonia declares a drought emergency in dozens of villages<\/h2><p>The 22 villages, plus two others in southern Catalonia, which account for around 25,000 residents in total, are in a <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//04//19//barcelona-is-heading-for-a-drought-emergency-as-water-shortages-worsen/">state of water emergency<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This means they must lower their consumption to a daily average of 200 litres of water per resident from a prior cap of 230.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Authorities are not limiting water for human consumption yet, but watering for <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//08//08//fruit-is-disappearing-from-italian-orchards-due-to-extreme-weather-farmers-warn/">agricultural purposes<\/strong><\/a> will be largely banned, and water use for industrial and recreational purposes has to drop by 25 per cent.<\/p>\n<div 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Agullana with 900 residents has been keeping its water usage below the 200-litre cap for several months, but its mayor said further steps will be implemented.<\/p>\n<p>\"We&#039;ll reduce to zero the irrigation of gardens, the football field, the grass by the swimming pool, which we&#039;ll see turning yellow as if burnt,\" Josep Jovell said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No water will be used to clean the streets, only dry sweeping, he added.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1691575356,"publishedAt":1691580462,"updatedAt":1691580972,"expiresAt":0,"canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2023\/08\/09\/we-have-never-seen-it-so-low-spain-introduces-water-restrictions-as-reservoirs-run-dry","images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/81\/17\/34\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_66709fa9-7051-5d06-82fc-36c2edc50a73-7811734.jpg","altText":"Boadella reservoir is at 20% of its capacity as Spain braces for the third heatwave of the summer.","caption":"Boadella reservoir is at 20% of its 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curbs irregular immigration as other European countries see increases","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Spain curbs irregular immigration as numbers rise in Europe ","titleListing2":"\ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddf8 While Spain managed to reduce the number of arrivals by 3.3%, \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf9 Italy and Greece saw a 115% and 65% increase respectively, according to UNHCR figures.","leadin":"While Spain managed to reduce the number of arrivals by 3.3%, Italy and Greece saw a 115% and 65% increase respectively, according to UNHCR figures.","summary":"While Spain managed to reduce the number of arrivals by 3.3%, Italy and Greece saw a 115% and 65% increase respectively, according to UNHCR figures.","url":"spain-curbs-irregular-immigration-as-other-european-countries-see-increases","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"In early June a sadly common sight in the Mediterranean was repeated on the Spanish coast. \n\nA small group of fishermen found a migrant boat with 52 people on board trying to reach the Canary Islands. On board was a pregnant woman who did not survive the crossing. \n\nDespite the Canary Islands receiving an average of 100 migrants per day, Spain managed to reduce the number of arrivals nationally by 3.3%. \n\nThis figure, published by the Ministry of the Interior, is not particularly striking on its own, but in comparison with the country's European neighbours, it is. \n\nItaly has seen the number of arrivals increase by 115% and Greece by 65%, according to UNHCR figures published by El Pa\u00eds , yet Spain has seen its numbers fall.\u00a0\u00a0 \n\n\nWhen the Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, took office in autumn 2022, she promised to resolve the issue of migration once and for all, but Rome's supposed hard line on immigration has proved to be ineffective at reducing numbers.\u00a0 \n\n\u201cItaly has seen the most rapid increase in number of arrivals, with around 90.000 sea arrivals since the beginning of the year, compared to 105.000 for the whole of 2022 and 67.500 in 2021,\u201d Camille Le Coz, Associate Director at the Migration Policy Institute Europe, told Euronews. \n\nWhy has Spain reduced its figures? \n\nSpain became the EU's main gateway for irregular migration in 2018, with arrivals doubling to 57,000, while the number of arrivals in the EU fell to a five-year low. \n\nFor the first time, the southern European country became the most used route for migrants trying to reach Europe. \n\nBut that was not the only year it broke records. In 2020, it recorded the second highest number of arrivals by sea in the last twenty years. \n\nHowever, the trend is now downwards. Irregular immigration fell by almost 70% at the beginning of 2023. \n\nThe numbers were made possible in large part by a sharp drop in arrivals from Morocco following the crisis the Spanish government faced after the Melilla fence tragedy last summer. \n\nAccording to the Moroccan authorities, at least 23 sub-Saharan Africans lost their lives when they tried to storm the fence and enter Spanish territory. \n\nThis placed southern Europe's immigration controls and its relationship with North Africa under scrutiny. Several migrants reported beatings by Moroccan police to the Spanish media. \n\nSince then, the authorities in Rabat have reinforced the border by building an intermediate section of fence a few hundred metres long with razor-sharp concertinas. \n\n\u201cSpain has long had a cooperation with Morocco in order to prevent border crossings. This migration partnership has experienced disruptions in the past few years, but it is still a major factor to explain the lower arrivals in Spain,\u201d says Le Coz. \n\n\u201cHowever, migration routes are constantly changing and if the route via Tunisia becomes more complicated, dangerous, and expensive - as might be the case given the efforts of the Tunisian government to curb migration - more migrants may seek to cross to Europe via Morocco\u201d, she adds. \n\nIs government policy the key to curbing migration? \n\nWhen it comes to migration flows, many factors explain arrivals in Europe, as the expert from the Migration Policy Institute Europe says. \n\nPeople leave their home due to the lack of economic opportunities, but also violence, discrimination, and limited trust in the future. \n\nBut, without a doubt, government policies also come into play. \n\n\u201cMigration policies have impacts on these trends, either by making it more dangerous and expensive to take some routes, or by opening legal pathways and giving opportunities for migrant workers to travel regularly to Europe,\u201d explains Le Coz. \n\nOverall, the number of migrant arrivals through the central Mediterranean has decreased, according to MSF. \n\n\"There is a clear increase in interceptions by the Libyan and Tunisian coastguards. Half of the people trying to cross were returned to these countries in 2018,\" said Raquel Gonz\u00e1lez, head of institutional relations at MSF. \n\nIn addition, \"Italian authorities have reduced the size of their rescue zone and Frontex has prioritised containment over rescue.\" \n\n","htmlText":"<p>In early June a sadly common sight in the Mediterranean was repeated on the Spanish coast.<\/p>\n<p>A small group of fishermen found a migrant boat with 52 people on board trying to reach the Canary Islands. On board was a pregnant woman who did not survive the crossing.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the Canary Islands receiving an average of 100 migrants per day, Spain managed to reduce the number of arrivals nationally by 3.3%.<\/p>\n<p>This figure, published by the Ministry of the Interior, is not particularly striking on its own, but in comparison with the country&#039;s European neighbours, it is.<\/p>\n<p>Italy has seen the number of arrivals increase by 115% and Greece by 65%, according to UNHCR figures published by <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////elpais.com///">El Pa\u00eds<\/a>, yet Spain has seen its numbers fall.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>When the Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, took office in autumn 2022, she promised to resolve the issue of migration once and for all, but Rome&#039;s supposed hard line on immigration has proved to be ineffective at reducing numbers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cItaly has seen the most rapid increase in number of arrivals, with around 90.000 sea arrivals since the beginning of the year, compared to 105.000 for the whole of 2022 and 67.500 in 2021,\u201d Camille Le Coz, Associate Director at the Migration Policy Institute Europe, told Euronews.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6416015625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//77//11//22//808x518_cmsv2_69a65fe5-501d-5a62-a302-45cf2507f667-7771122.jpg/" alt=\"STR&#47;Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/11\/22\/384x246_cmsv2_69a65fe5-501d-5a62-a302-45cf2507f667-7771122.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/11\/22\/640x411_cmsv2_69a65fe5-501d-5a62-a302-45cf2507f667-7771122.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/11\/22\/750x481_cmsv2_69a65fe5-501d-5a62-a302-45cf2507f667-7771122.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/11\/22\/828x531_cmsv2_69a65fe5-501d-5a62-a302-45cf2507f667-7771122.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/11\/22\/1080x693_cmsv2_69a65fe5-501d-5a62-a302-45cf2507f667-7771122.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/11\/22\/1200x770_cmsv2_69a65fe5-501d-5a62-a302-45cf2507f667-7771122.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/11\/22\/1920x1232_cmsv2_69a65fe5-501d-5a62-a302-45cf2507f667-7771122.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Migrants, mainly from sub-Saharan Africa, are stopped by Tunisian Maritime National Guard at sea during an attempt to get to Italy, near the coast of Sfax, Tunisia.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">STR&#47;Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved.<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>Why has Spain reduced its figures?<\/h2><p>Spain became the EU&#039;s main gateway for irregular migration in 2018, with arrivals doubling to 57,000, while the number of arrivals in the EU fell to a five-year low.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time, the southern European country became the most used route for migrants trying to reach Europe.<\/p>\n<p>But that was not the only year it broke records. In 2020, it recorded the second highest number of arrivals by sea in the last twenty years.<\/p>\n<p>However, the trend is now downwards. Irregular immigration fell by almost 70% at the beginning of 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The numbers were made possible in large part by a sharp drop in arrivals from Morocco following the crisis the Spanish government faced after the Melilla fence tragedy last summer.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Moroccan authorities, at least 23 sub-Saharan Africans lost their lives when they tried to storm the fence and enter Spanish territory.<\/p>\n<p>This placed southern Europe&#039;s immigration controls and its relationship with North Africa under scrutiny. Several migrants reported beatings by Moroccan police to the Spanish media.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, the authorities in Rabat have reinforced the border by building an intermediate section of fence a few hundred metres long with razor-sharp concertinas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpain has long had a cooperation with Morocco in order to prevent border crossings. This migration partnership has experienced disruptions in the past few years, but it is still a major factor to explain the lower arrivals in Spain,\u201d says Le Coz.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, migration routes are constantly changing and if the route via Tunisia becomes more complicated, dangerous, and expensive - as might be the case given the efforts of the Tunisian government to curb migration - more migrants may seek to cross to Europe via Morocco\u201d, she adds.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//81//00//08//808x539_cmsv2_ff6fe5f1-3407-571e-bbf2-67987796077b-7810008.jpg/" alt=\"Santi Palacios&#47;Copyright 2017 The AP. All rights reserved.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/81\/00\/08\/384x256_cmsv2_ff6fe5f1-3407-571e-bbf2-67987796077b-7810008.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/81\/00\/08\/640x427_cmsv2_ff6fe5f1-3407-571e-bbf2-67987796077b-7810008.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/81\/00\/08\/750x500_cmsv2_ff6fe5f1-3407-571e-bbf2-67987796077b-7810008.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/81\/00\/08\/828x552_cmsv2_ff6fe5f1-3407-571e-bbf2-67987796077b-7810008.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/81\/00\/08\/1080x720_cmsv2_ff6fe5f1-3407-571e-bbf2-67987796077b-7810008.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/81\/00\/08\/1200x800_cmsv2_ff6fe5f1-3407-571e-bbf2-67987796077b-7810008.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/81\/00\/08\/1920x1281_cmsv2_ff6fe5f1-3407-571e-bbf2-67987796077b-7810008.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Sub-Saharan migrants climb over a metallic fence that divides Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Melilla.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Santi Palacios&#47;Copyright 2017 The AP. All rights reserved.<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>Is government policy the key to curbing migration?<\/h2><p>When it comes to migration flows, many factors explain arrivals in Europe, as the expert from the Migration Policy Institute Europe says.<\/p>\n<p>People leave their home due to the lack of economic opportunities, but also violence, discrimination, and limited trust in the future.<\/p>\n<p>But, without a doubt, government policies also come into play.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMigration policies have impacts on these trends, either by making it more dangerous and expensive to take some routes, or by opening legal pathways and giving opportunities for migrant workers to travel regularly to Europe,\u201d explains Le Coz.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the number of migrant arrivals through the central Mediterranean has decreased, according to MSF.<\/p>\n<p>\"There is a clear increase in interceptions by the Libyan and Tunisian coastguards. Half of the people trying to cross were returned to these countries in 2018,\" said Raquel Gonz\u00e1lez, head of institutional relations at MSF.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, \"Italian authorities have reduced the size of their rescue zone and Frontex has prioritised containment over rescue.\"<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1691503793,"publishedAt":1691557961,"updatedAt":1691663360,"expiresAt":0,"canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/08\/09\/spain-curbs-irregular-immigration-as-other-european-countries-see-increases","images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/81\/00\/08\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_8706d974-d2e6-519f-bb8e-18c5fef32b4e-7810008.jpg","altText":"Migrants run on Spanish soil after crossing the fences separating the Spanish enclave of Melilla from Morocco in Melilla.","caption":"Migrants run on Spanish soil after crossing the fences separating the Spanish enclave of Melilla from Morocco in Melilla.","captionCredit":"Javier Bernardo\/Copyright 2022 The AP. All rights reserved.","captionUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"sourceUrl":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1024,"height":683},{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/81\/00\/08\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_ff6fe5f1-3407-571e-bbf2-67987796077b-7810008.jpg","altText":"Sub-Saharan migrants climb over a metallic fence that divides Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Melilla.","caption":"Sub-Saharan migrants climb over a metallic fence that divides Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Melilla.","captionCredit":"Santi Palacios\/Copyright 2017 The AP. 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Barcelona\u2019s restaurants turn away solo diners in favour of tourist groups","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Why are Barcelona's restaurants turning away solo diners?","titleListing2":"Table for one? Barcelona\u2019s restaurants turn away solo diners in favour of tourist groups","leadin":"Local people are becoming increasingly frustrated by restaurants looking to maximise profits from tourists during the busy summer season. ","summary":"Local people are becoming increasingly frustrated by restaurants looking to maximise profits from tourists during the busy summer season. ","url":"table-for-one-barcelonas-restaurants-turn-away-solo-diners-in-favour-of-tourist-groups","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Solo travellers visiting Barcelona could soon go hungry as some restaurants have banned dining alone. \n\nOutdoor terraces are incredibly popular during spring and summer when millions of tourists flock to the city . But it's bad news for solo diners as restauranteurs have started turning them away in favour of groups that bring in more money. \n\nIn central Barcelona , some restaurants - mainly on Carrer de Blai which is known for its tapas bars and in the Eixample neighbourhood - have started turning single diners away. \n\nSpanish daily newspaper El Pais reported that waiters are giving excuses like being fully booked or refusing seats on restaurant terraces. \n\nSolo diners are being given terrible tables and excuses \n\nFor people who travel and dine alone , a chilly reception isn\u2019t all that unusual. Being seated by the toilet, kitchen or even shuffled away to a hidden corner is all too common. \n\nBut local people in Barcelona are now also feeling the impact of tourism on Barcelona\u2019s restaurants. \n\nOne local told the newspaper that he tried several establishments in the same evening only to be turned away by all of them - despite there being empty tables. \n\n\u201cAt the first terrace I got a table, a waiter quickly arrived and told me it was reserved. It wasn't. As soon as I got up, a group of guiris (foreigners) who were behind me sat down,\u201d he said. \n\nAnother told him he would have just 20 minutes to eat his meal and the last restaurant he tried directly told him that the terrace was just for groups. \n\nWhy are restaurants turning away solo diners? \n\nThe reasoning behind the ban on solo diners is financial. Tables with groups are likely to spend more than someone eating alone. And groups of tourists also splash more cash than locals. \n\nLocal people are becoming increasingly frustrated as restaurants look to maximise profit from tourists. \n\nWhere in the past they could sit outside and have a drink in the evening or coffee in the afternoon, now they are being told no.\u00a0 \n\nAs temperatures start to rise in spring, residents are forced to adapt to the eating schedules of tourists, with many establishments refusing to accommodate those looking for a quick drink after 12 pm. \n\n\u201c4 in the afternoon. Before entering the MACBA (Museum of Contemporary Art Barcelona) we want to have a coffee,\u201d journalist Noem\u00ed Vilaseca said in a post on social media in July. \n\n\u201cThey don\u2019t serve it to us on the terrace, because \u2018its time for an aperitif [before dinner, of course].\u201d\u00a0 \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Solo travellers visiting Barcelona could soon go hungry as some restaurants have banned dining alone.<\/p>\n<p>Outdoor terraces are incredibly popular during spring and summer when <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2022//06//27//barcelona-one-way-streets-and-no-more-megaphones-in-crack-down-on-disruptive-tourists/">millions of tourists flock to the city<\/strong><\/a>. But it&#039;s bad news for solo diners as restauranteurs have started turning them away in favour of groups that bring in more money.<\/p>\n<p>In central <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//06//19//air-pollution-from-barcelona-to-southampton-these-are-europes-worst-cruise-ports/">Barcelona, some restaurants - mainly on Carrer de Blai which is known for its tapas bars and in the Eixample neighbourhood - have started turning single diners away.<\/p>\n<p>Spanish daily newspaper El Pais reported that waiters are giving excuses like being fully booked or refusing seats on restaurant terraces.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"6665892,7687640\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2023//07//28//barcelona-is-banning-smoking-on-all-its-beaches-and-the-rest-of-spain-could-soon-follow/">Barcelona, Mallorca, Ibiza: All the beaches in Spain where smoking is banned<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//06//19//air-pollution-from-barcelona-to-southampton-these-are-europes-worst-cruise-ports/">Air pollution: From Barcelona to Southampton, these are Europe\u2019s worst cruise ports<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>Solo diners are being given terrible tables and excuses<\/h2><p>For <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2022//02//16//travelling-alone-here-are-seven-of-the-best-cities-for-solo-backpackers/">people who travel and dine alone<\/strong><\/a>, a chilly reception isn\u2019t all that unusual. Being seated by the toilet, kitchen or even shuffled away to a hidden corner is all too common.<\/p>\n<p>But local people in Barcelona are now also feeling the impact of tourism on Barcelona\u2019s restaurants.<\/p>\n<p>One local told the newspaper that he tried several establishments in the same evening only to be turned away by all of them - despite there being empty tables.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-ease-in-up widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6666666666666666\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//81//00//82//808x539_cmsv2_96f13d00-5eed-5b7d-a0b2-8648e350b9fe-7810082.jpg/" alt=\"IMAGO&#47;Mario Aurich via Reuters Connect\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/81\/00\/82\/384x256_cmsv2_96f13d00-5eed-5b7d-a0b2-8648e350b9fe-7810082.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/81\/00\/82\/640x427_cmsv2_96f13d00-5eed-5b7d-a0b2-8648e350b9fe-7810082.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/81\/00\/82\/750x500_cmsv2_96f13d00-5eed-5b7d-a0b2-8648e350b9fe-7810082.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/81\/00\/82\/828x552_cmsv2_96f13d00-5eed-5b7d-a0b2-8648e350b9fe-7810082.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/81\/00\/82\/1080x720_cmsv2_96f13d00-5eed-5b7d-a0b2-8648e350b9fe-7810082.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/81\/00\/82\/1200x800_cmsv2_96f13d00-5eed-5b7d-a0b2-8648e350b9fe-7810082.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/81\/00\/82\/1920x1280_cmsv2_96f13d00-5eed-5b7d-a0b2-8648e350b9fe-7810082.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Locals are being turned away from restaurants during the busy spring and summer seasons.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">IMAGO&#47;Mario Aurich via Reuters Connect<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\u201cAt the first terrace I got a table, a <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2023//03//21//i-hate-europeans-sometimes-waiter-calls-out-stingy-tipping-culture-but-are-we-really-that-/">waiter quickly arrived and told me it was reserved. It wasn&#039;t. As soon as I got up, a group of guiris (foreigners) who were behind me sat down,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Another told him he would have just 20 minutes to eat his meal and the last restaurant he tried directly told him that the terrace was just for groups.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7396934,7799730\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2023//02//13//how-solo-travel-can-help-you-find-platonic-love-this-valentines-day/">How solo travel can help you find (platonic) love this Valentine\u2019s day<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2023//08//03//rhodes-is-back-greek-pm-offers-free-stay-in-2024-to-evacuated-tourists/">/u2018Rhodes is back!\u2019: Greek PM offers free stay in 2024 to evacuated tourists <\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>Why are restaurants turning away solo diners?<\/h2><p>The reasoning behind the ban on <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2022//12//20//the-rise-of-adventure-travel-how-millennials-are-reinventing-solo-travel/">solo diners<\/strong><\/a> is financial. Tables with groups are likely to spend more than someone eating alone. And groups of tourists also splash more cash than locals.<\/p>\n<p>Local people are becoming increasingly frustrated as <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2023//04//29//want-to-travel-more-sustainably-try-eating-your-way-around-europes-seasonal-delights/">restaurants look to maximise profit from tourists.<\/p>\n<p>Where in the past they could sit outside and have a drink in the evening or coffee in the afternoon, now they are being told no.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As temperatures start to rise in spring, residents are forced to adapt to the eating schedules of tourists, with many establishments refusing to accommodate those looking for a quick drink after 12 pm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c4 in the afternoon. Before entering the MACBA (Museum of Contemporary Art Barcelona) we want to have a coffee,\u201d journalist Noem\u00ed Vilaseca said in a post on social media in July.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey don\u2019t serve it to us on the terrace, because \u2018its time for an aperitif [before dinner, of course].\u201d<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1691505886,"publishedAt":1691508317,"updatedAt":1691508324,"expiresAt":0,"canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/travel\/2023\/08\/08\/table-for-one-barcelonas-restaurants-turn-away-solo-diners-in-favour-of-tourist-groups","images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/81\/00\/82\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_dc02080c-27d9-5c36-b33e-5c1d986fcc0f-7810082.jpg","altText":"Tourists eat at one of Barcelona's popular outdoor terraces. ","caption":"Tourists eat at one of Barcelona's popular outdoor terraces. 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Why Spain breaks job market records but tops EU's unemployment","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Why Spain breaks job market records but tops EU's unemployment rate","titleListing2":"\ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddf8 Is Spain 'doomed' to unemployment? Although its job market has been breaking new records with the number of unemployed at a 15-year low, it still tops EU's unemployment rate.","leadin":"Is Spain 'doomed' to unemployment? Although its job market has been breaking new records with the number of unemployed at a 15-year low, it still tops EU's unemployment rate.","summary":"Is Spain 'doomed' to unemployment? Although its job market has been breaking new records with the number of unemployed at a 15-year low, it still tops EU's unemployment rate.","url":"an-unsolvable-paradox-why-spain-breaks-job-market-records-but-tops-eus-unemployment","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"After being unhappy with his job for months, Francisco G\u00f3mez, 36, received a letter of dismissal. \n\nHe had been working in Barcelona as a lawyer since 2018. G\u00f3mez had asked for a promotion that stalled due to a change in management. \n\nHe did not agree with the company's new policy and in April,\u00a0on return from sick leave, they decided to fire him. \n\nThat was the first time he found himself unemployed and since then he has been trying to find a new job. \n\nAlthough Spain's job market has been breaking new records during the last months with the number of unemployed at a 15-year low, the country continues to lead European unemployment. \n\nThe figures registered in the southern European country are outstanding, exceeding the 21-million worker mark for the first time, according to data published by the Ministry of Inclusion last week. \n\nEven so, Spain's 11.6% unemployment rate is far from the average for the eurozone, which stands at 6.4%, and for the 27 EU countries, which is 5.9%. \n\nThese numbers make it more difficult for those seeking to re-enter the labour market, like Francisco G\u00f3mez\u2019s, who has been looking for work for four months and still hasn't been able to find a job, even though he remains optimistic. \n\n\"At the beginning it was very hard, I would get up and try to get my spirits back up. I even doubted the company and my own abilities. But now I feel more optimistic,\" he tells Euronews. \n\n\"I am aware that there are people who may be worse off than I am. I don't have a family, nor children, so I do not have that financial burden,\" he adds. \n\nWhat is the Spanish paradox? \n\nThe number of unemployed in Spain has not been this low since August 2008, according to Eurostat. \n\nHowever, the number of long-term unemployed stands at 6.2%, an increase of one point compared to 2020, as can be seen in the latest data published by the National Institute of Statistics. \n\n\"Looking for a job takes time. Companies are paying low salaries compared to the responsibilities they demand and paying rent in big cities like Madrid or Barcelona is very expensive. This makes it difficult,\" says G\u00f3mez. \n\nThe Spanish paradox stands out when having a look at the data available at European level: it leads the EU in terms of employment growth, but also tops the league table for the number of unemployed. \n\n\"This is basically because Spain's unemployment rate was way higher. Just six years ago, the gap between Spain and other European countries was colossal. This has been gradually narrowing,\" explains Raymond Torres, Director of International Economics at Funcas, a Spanish think tank. \n\nFor the expert, the data shows steps in the right direction. \n\n\"For the last 40 years, when the Spanish economy weakened, unemployment soared. It is true that in the recovery period, more jobs were created than in other European countries, but on average, there was more unemployment in Spain\". \n\nIs Spain 'doomed' to unemployment? \n\nAs Spain continues to struggle to move down the rankings, many are wondering whether unemployment will always be its great burden. \n\nAt the moment, Spain has more unemployment than Greece (11.1%), Sweden (7.9%) or Lithuania (7.5%) and is far behind countries whose statistics show the best data, such as Malta (2.6%), Poland (2.6%) or even the Netherlands (3.5%). \n\n\"I don't think there is a specific curse, or that Spain is doomed to such high unemployment all the time,\" Torres says. \n\nHe argues measures such as the country\u2019s 2021 labour reform, introduced to put an end to job instability and temporary employment, would help to converge towards data like that of its European neighbours. \n\nThe latest labour reform was a gamble by the Socialist government. And it paid off. \n\nOnly a year after its entry into force, the number of temporary contracts fell by 30% and the measure boosted permanent employment. \n\nHowever, Torres believes Spain still has work to do. Its two main challenges lie in active policies, such as the outplacement system for the unemployed, and the high rate of youth unemployment. \n\n\"France had the same problem as Spain in terms of bringing the unemployed back to the labour market and, through reforms, unemployment has gradually been reduced\", he points out. \n\nSpain is also the country with the highest number of under-25s without a job (27.4%), ahead of Sweden (24.9%) and Greece (23.6%). \n\n\"This is something that is still not working well in the country. The education system is not sufficiently intertwined with the labour market. Moreover, Spain still has a much higher drop-out rate than northern European countries such as Germany,\" says Torres. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>After being unhappy with his job for months, Francisco G\u00f3mez, 36, received a letter of dismissal.<\/p>\n<p>He had been working in Barcelona as a lawyer since 2018. G\u00f3mez had asked for a promotion that stalled due to a change in management.<\/p>\n<p>He did not agree with the company&#039;s new policy and in April,\u00a0on return from sick leave, they decided to fire him.<\/p>\n<p>That was the first time he found himself unemployed and since then he has been trying to find a new job.<\/p>\n<p>Although Spain&#039;s job market has been breaking new records during the last months with the number of unemployed at a 15-year low, the country continues to lead European unemployment.<\/p>\n<p>The figures registered in the southern European country are outstanding, exceeding the 21-million worker mark for the first time, according to data published by the Ministry of Inclusion last week.<\/p>\n<p>Even so, Spain&#039;s 11.6% unemployment rate is far from the average for the eurozone, which stands at 6.4%, and for the 27 EU countries, which is 5.9%.<\/p>\n<p>These numbers make it more difficult for those seeking to re-enter the labour market, like Francisco G\u00f3mez\u2019s, who has been looking for work for four months and still hasn&#039;t been able to find a job, even though he remains optimistic.<\/p>\n<p>\"At the beginning it was very hard, I would get up and try to get my spirits back up. I even doubted the company and my own abilities. But now I feel more optimistic,\" he tells Euronews.<\/p>\n<p>\"I am aware that there are people who may be worse off than I am. I don&#039;t have a family, nor children, so I do not have that financial burden,\" he adds.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.7233192289609779\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//79//98//72//808x586_cmsv2_bdb09e53-c9eb-57e4-88bf-37c853b696ef-7799872.jpg/" alt=\"JAVIER SORIANO&#47;AFP or licensors\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/79\/98\/72\/384x278_cmsv2_bdb09e53-c9eb-57e4-88bf-37c853b696ef-7799872.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/79\/98\/72\/640x463_cmsv2_bdb09e53-c9eb-57e4-88bf-37c853b696ef-7799872.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/79\/98\/72\/750x542_cmsv2_bdb09e53-c9eb-57e4-88bf-37c853b696ef-7799872.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/79\/98\/72\/828x599_cmsv2_bdb09e53-c9eb-57e4-88bf-37c853b696ef-7799872.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/79\/98\/72\/1080x781_cmsv2_bdb09e53-c9eb-57e4-88bf-37c853b696ef-7799872.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/79\/98\/72\/1200x868_cmsv2_bdb09e53-c9eb-57e4-88bf-37c853b696ef-7799872.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/79\/98\/72\/1920x1389_cmsv2_bdb09e53-c9eb-57e4-88bf-37c853b696ef-7799872.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">A protestor holds a banner reading,&quot;violence is earning 600 euros&quot;, during a demonstartion called by the UGT and CCOO unions against unemployment<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">JAVIER SORIANO&#47;AFP or licensors<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>What is the Spanish paradox?<\/h2><p>The number of unemployed in Spain has not been this low since August 2008, according to Eurostat.<\/p>\n<p>However, the number of long-term unemployed stands at 6.2%, an increase of one point compared to 2020, as can be seen in the latest data published by the National Institute of Statistics.<\/p>\n<p>\"Looking for a job takes time. Companies are paying low salaries compared to the responsibilities they demand and paying rent in big cities like Madrid or Barcelona is very expensive. This makes it difficult,\" says G\u00f3mez.<\/p>\n<p>The Spanish paradox stands out when having a look at the data available at European level: it leads the EU in terms of employment growth, but also tops the league table for the number of unemployed.<\/p>\n<p>\"This is basically because Spain&#039;s unemployment rate was way higher. Just six years ago, the gap between Spain and other European countries was colossal. This has been gradually narrowing,\" explains Raymond Torres, Director of International Economics at Funcas, a Spanish think tank.<\/p>\n<p>For the expert, the data shows steps in the right direction.<\/p>\n<p>\"For the last 40 years, when the Spanish economy weakened, unemployment soared. It is true that in the recovery period, more jobs were created than in other European countries, but on average, there was more unemployment in Spain\".<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//79//98//72//808x539_cmsv2_131aafec-5b2c-50a0-a360-808ef45ded5b-7799872.jpg/" alt=\"Paul White&#47;Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/79\/98\/72\/384x256_cmsv2_131aafec-5b2c-50a0-a360-808ef45ded5b-7799872.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/79\/98\/72\/640x427_cmsv2_131aafec-5b2c-50a0-a360-808ef45ded5b-7799872.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/79\/98\/72\/750x500_cmsv2_131aafec-5b2c-50a0-a360-808ef45ded5b-7799872.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/79\/98\/72\/828x552_cmsv2_131aafec-5b2c-50a0-a360-808ef45ded5b-7799872.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/79\/98\/72\/1080x720_cmsv2_131aafec-5b2c-50a0-a360-808ef45ded5b-7799872.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/79\/98\/72\/1200x800_cmsv2_131aafec-5b2c-50a0-a360-808ef45ded5b-7799872.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/79\/98\/72\/1920x1281_cmsv2_131aafec-5b2c-50a0-a360-808ef45ded5b-7799872.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Prices of goods at a street market in Madrid.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Paul White&#47;Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>Is Spain 'doomed' to unemployment?<\/h2><p>As Spain continues to struggle to move down the rankings, many are wondering whether unemployment will always be its great burden.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment, Spain has more unemployment than Greece (11.1%), Sweden (7.9%) or Lithuania (7.5%) and is far behind countries whose statistics show the best data, such as Malta (2.6%), Poland (2.6%) or even the Netherlands (3.5%).<\/p>\n<p>\"I don&#039;t think there is a specific curse, or that Spain is doomed to such high unemployment all the time,\" Torres says.<\/p>\n<p>He argues measures such as the country\u2019s 2021 labour reform, introduced to put an end to job instability and temporary employment, would help to converge towards data like that of its European neighbours.<\/p>\n<p>The latest labour reform was a gamble by the Socialist government. And it paid off.<\/p>\n<p>Only a year after its entry into force, the number of temporary contracts fell by 30% and the measure boosted permanent employment.<\/p>\n<p>However, Torres believes Spain still has work to do. Its two main challenges lie in active policies, such as the outplacement system for the unemployed, and the high rate of youth unemployment.<\/p>\n<p>\"France had the same problem as Spain in terms of bringing the unemployed back to the labour market and, through reforms, unemployment has gradually been reduced\", he points out.<\/p>\n<p>Spain is also the country with the highest number of under-25s without a job (27.4%), ahead of Sweden (24.9%) and Greece (23.6%).<\/p>\n<p>\"This is something that is still not working well in the country. The education system is not sufficiently intertwined with the labour market. Moreover, Spain still has a much higher drop-out rate than northern European countries such as Germany,\" says Torres.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1691077590,"publishedAt":1691384422,"updatedAt":1691384489,"expiresAt":0,"canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/08\/07\/an-unsolvable-paradox-why-spain-breaks-job-market-records-but-tops-eus-unemployment","images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/06\/90\/13\/92\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_ccc50511-ad15-5db8-8cd9-8d9b47786244-6901392.jpg","altText":"In this Tuesday, April 28, 2020 file photo, a man looks at notices on the window of an unemployment office in Madrid.","caption":"In this Tuesday, April 28, 2020 file photo, a man looks at notices on the window of an unemployment office in Madrid.","captionCredit":"Paul White\/Copyright 2020 The AP. 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He is now strolling the streets of Marrakech while the opposition recalls recent controversial concessions made to Rabat.","leadin":"There has been a last-minute change in Pedro S\u00e1nchez's holiday destination that no one knew about. He is now strolling the streets of Marrakech while the opposition recalls recent controversial concessions made to Rabat.","summary":"There has been a last-minute change in Pedro S\u00e1nchez's holiday destination that no one knew about. He is now strolling the streets of Marrakech while the opposition recalls recent controversial concessions made to Rabat.","url":"spains-sanchezs-most-controversial-holiday-raging-opposition-with-his-trip-to-morocco","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Everything was ready for Spain\u2019s acting PM, with Pedro Sanchez due to arrive in Lanzarote in the Canary Islands for a post-election family holiday.\u00a0 \n\nSpanish State Security Forces had deployed an action plan and were waiting for him - but the plane never landed. \n\nWithout a warning for the welcoming committee, the aircraft changed course and Sanchez flew to Morocco instead. \n\nAlong with his family, he strolled around Jemaa el-Fna Square listening to a local guide, and dined in restaurants in Marrakech. \n\nIt's a trip that the PM claims is \"strictly private\", but which has inflamed both the Spanish left and right. \n\nThe conservative Popular Party calls it a \"clear provocation\" and the Socialist coalition government partners, the far-left Podemos party, questions his decision. \n\nMeanwhile, S\u00e1nchez seems to be brushing aside the criticism, while local authorities in Morocco plan to \"treat him like a king,\" reports El Mundo.\u00a0 \n\nWhy is a Morocco holiday controversial? \n\nA holiday to Morocco for the Spanish prime minister is controversial because of Spain's stance on the Western Sahara conflict, which has been running for decades.\u00a0 \n\nThe conflict pits the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic \/ Polisaro Front against the government of Morocco.\u00a0 \n\nPolisaro wants Western Sahara to become an independent nation while the Moroccan government obviously wants to claim it as part of its own territory. \n\nIn 2022 S\u00e1nchez made a historic shift in Spain's foreign policy stance when he announced his support for Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony, to become an autonomous region within Morocco. \n\nRabat\u2019s sovereignty claim infuriates both the Sahrawis and Algeria, and S\u00e1nchez's 2022 announcement signified an abrupt change in Spain's neutrality during the decades-old conflict. \n\nSanchez\u2019s decision was also taken with great secrecy. Neither the foreign minister herself, nor Podemos - the Socialist\u2019s coalition partner - knew of the policy change in advance. \n\nPhone hacking scandal \n\nThe holiday in Morocco is further complicated by a phone-hacking scandal last year, when Spanish authorities revealed that\u00a0S\u00e1nchez, and Defence Minister Margarita Robles, had their devices targeted with Pegasus spyware. \n\nPegasus is produced by Israeli security firm NSO, which says it only sells the software to government agencies. \n\nS\u00e1nchez's mobile phone was breached five times, but it is still not known what kind of information, data or photographs were stolen. \n\n\"We have no doubt that this is an illicit, unauthorised intervention,\" said a government's spokesperson. \n\nThere was much speculation about the case in Spanish media, and experts pointed out that the dates of the hacking coincided with key moments of tension between the Spanish and Moroccan governments.\u00a0 \n\nOne of the most serious issues was when the leader of the Polisaro Front was secretly brought to Spain for hospital treatment.\u00a0 \n\nWhen Rabat found out, authorities were outraged, and the diplomatic fallout between the two countries culminated in the dismissal of Spain's foreign minister Arancha Gonz\u00e1lez Laya. \n\nLater, Gonz\u00e1lez Laya's private statements were leaked to the Spanish press in which she admitted that her phone had been tapped by a hacker from Morocco -- the inference being that since Pegasus spyware is only sold to governments, then the Moroccan state might have been behind the phone hacks. \n\nHow was the conflict settled? \n\nAt the beginning of July Spain's National Court announced the investigation into the phone hacking had been put on hold. The reason behind it? Israel's failure to provide information on the case. \n\nDespite the fact that the National Court sent investigators on four occasions to find out who was behind the attack, Israel never replied. \n\nMeanwhile, ties between Morocco and Israel are growing closer. \n\nIsrael has been the latest country to recognise Morocco's sovereignty over Western Sahara and has announced the opening of a consulate in the Western Saharan city of Dakhla. \n\nWith the Pegasus case on hold and still no word on who spied on Sanchez, the acting PM will enjoy Marrakech until next Monday. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Everything was ready for Spain\u2019s acting PM, with Pedro Sanchez due to arrive in Lanzarote in the Canary Islands for a post-election family holiday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Spanish State Security Forces had deployed an action plan and were waiting for him - but the plane never landed.<\/p>\n<p>Without a warning for the welcoming committee, the aircraft changed course and Sanchez flew to Morocco instead.<\/p>\n<p>Along with his family, he strolled around Jemaa el-Fna Square listening to a local guide, and dined in restaurants in Marrakech.<\/p>\n<p>It&#039;s a trip that the PM claims is \"strictly private\", but which has inflamed both the Spanish left and right.<\/p>\n<p>The conservative Popular Party calls it a \"clear provocation\" and the Socialist coalition government partners, the far-left Podemos party, questions his decision.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, S\u00e1nchez seems to be brushing aside the criticism, while local authorities in Morocco plan to \"treat him like a king,\" reports El Mundo.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Why is a Morocco holiday controversial?<\/h2><p>A holiday to Morocco for the Spanish prime minister is controversial because of Spain&#039;s stance on the Western Sahara conflict, which has been running for decades.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The conflict pits the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic \/ Polisaro Front against the government of Morocco.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Polisaro wants Western Sahara to become an independent nation while the Moroccan government obviously wants to claim it as part of its own territory.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022 S\u00e1nchez made a historic shift in Spain&#039;s foreign policy stance when he announced his support for Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony, to become an autonomous region within Morocco.<\/p>\n<p>Rabat\u2019s sovereignty claim infuriates both the Sahrawis and Algeria, and S\u00e1nchez&#039;s 2022 announcement signified an abrupt change in Spain&#039;s neutrality during the decades-old conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Sanchez\u2019s decision was also taken with great secrecy. Neither the foreign minister herself, nor Podemos - the Socialist\u2019s coalition partner - knew of the policy change in advance.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//80//15//06//808x454_cmsv2_275fb9d3-6866-5b81-99f5-b202ed9c9726-7801506.jpg/" alt=\"Rue20.com\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/80\/15\/06\/384x216_cmsv2_275fb9d3-6866-5b81-99f5-b202ed9c9726-7801506.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/80\/15\/06\/640x360_cmsv2_275fb9d3-6866-5b81-99f5-b202ed9c9726-7801506.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/80\/15\/06\/750x422_cmsv2_275fb9d3-6866-5b81-99f5-b202ed9c9726-7801506.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/80\/15\/06\/828x466_cmsv2_275fb9d3-6866-5b81-99f5-b202ed9c9726-7801506.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/80\/15\/06\/1080x608_cmsv2_275fb9d3-6866-5b81-99f5-b202ed9c9726-7801506.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/80\/15\/06\/1200x675_cmsv2_275fb9d3-6866-5b81-99f5-b202ed9c9726-7801506.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/80\/15\/06\/1920x1080_cmsv2_275fb9d3-6866-5b81-99f5-b202ed9c9726-7801506.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Pedro S\u00e1nchez during a stroll in Marrakech.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Rue20.com<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>Phone hacking scandal<\/h2><p>The holiday in Morocco is further complicated by a phone-hacking scandal last year, when Spanish authorities revealed that\u00a0S\u00e1nchez, and Defence Minister Margarita Robles, had their devices targeted with Pegasus spyware.<\/p>\n<p>Pegasus is produced by Israeli security firm NSO, which says it only sells the software to government agencies.<\/p>\n<p>S\u00e1nchez&#039;s mobile phone was breached five times, but it is still not known what kind of information, data or photographs were stolen.<\/p>\n<p>\"We have no doubt that this is an illicit, unauthorised intervention,\" said a government&#039;s spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>There was much speculation about the case in Spanish media, and experts pointed out that the dates of the hacking coincided with key moments of tension between the Spanish and Moroccan governments.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One of the most serious issues was when the leader of the Polisaro Front was secretly brought to Spain for hospital treatment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When Rabat found out, authorities were outraged, and the diplomatic fallout between the two countries culminated in the dismissal of Spain&#039;s foreign minister Arancha Gonz\u00e1lez Laya.<\/p>\n<p>Later, Gonz\u00e1lez Laya&#039;s private statements were leaked to the Spanish press in which she admitted that her phone had been tapped by a hacker from Morocco -- the inference being that since Pegasus spyware is only sold to governments, then the Moroccan state might have been behind the phone hacks.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//06//67//20//20//808x539_cmsv2_99c9d912-4de0-5da7-9490-f67d917ac263-6672020.jpg/" alt=\"John Thys&#47;Copyright 2020 The AP. All rights reserved\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/06\/67\/20\/20\/384x256_cmsv2_99c9d912-4de0-5da7-9490-f67d917ac263-6672020.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/06\/67\/20\/20\/640x427_cmsv2_99c9d912-4de0-5da7-9490-f67d917ac263-6672020.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/06\/67\/20\/20\/750x500_cmsv2_99c9d912-4de0-5da7-9490-f67d917ac263-6672020.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/06\/67\/20\/20\/828x552_cmsv2_99c9d912-4de0-5da7-9490-f67d917ac263-6672020.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/06\/67\/20\/20\/1080x720_cmsv2_99c9d912-4de0-5da7-9490-f67d917ac263-6672020.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/06\/67\/20\/20\/1200x800_cmsv2_99c9d912-4de0-5da7-9490-f67d917ac263-6672020.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/06\/67\/20\/20\/1920x1281_cmsv2_99c9d912-4de0-5da7-9490-f67d917ac263-6672020.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Spain&apos;s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez speaks on his cell phone during a round table meeting at an EU summit in Brussels.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">John Thys&#47;Copyright 2020 The AP. All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>How was the conflict settled?<\/h2><p>At the beginning of July Spain&#039;s National Court announced the investigation into the phone hacking had been put on hold. The reason behind it? Israel&#039;s failure to provide information on the case.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the fact that the National Court sent investigators on four occasions to find out who was behind the attack, Israel never replied.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, ties between Morocco and Israel are growing closer.<\/p>\n<p>Israel has been the latest country to recognise Morocco&#039;s sovereignty over Western Sahara and has announced the opening of a consulate in the Western Saharan city of Dakhla.<\/p>\n<p>With the Pegasus case on hold and still no word on who spied on Sanchez, the acting PM will enjoy Marrakech until next Monday.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1691148111,"publishedAt":1691158569,"updatedAt":1691159246,"expiresAt":0,"canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/08\/04\/spains-sanchezs-most-controversial-holiday-raging-opposition-with-his-trip-to-morocco","images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/45\/20\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_63ce18e4-a992-5b46-81d3-416474f642ca-7774520.jpg","altText":"Socialist Workers' Party leader and current Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez applauds during an executive committee meeting in Madrid.","caption":"Socialist Workers' Party leader and current Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez applauds during an executive committee meeting in Madrid.","captionCredit":"Manu Fernandez\/Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved.","captionUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"sourceUrl":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1024,"height":683},{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/80\/15\/06\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_275fb9d3-6866-5b81-99f5-b202ed9c9726-7801506.jpg","altText":"Pedro S\u00e1nchez during a stroll in Marrakech.","caption":"Pedro S\u00e1nchez during a stroll in Marrakech.","captionCredit":"Rue20.com","captionUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"sourceUrl":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1200,"height":675}],"authors":{"journalists":[{"urlSafeValue":"llach","title":"Laura Llach","twitter":null}],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"id":7809,"slug":"spain","urlSafeValue":"spain","title":"Spain","titleRaw":"Spain"},{"id":201,"slug":"morocco","urlSafeValue":"morocco","title":"Morocco","titleRaw":"Morocco"},{"id":25392,"slug":"pegasus","urlSafeValue":"pegasus","title":"Pegasus spyware","titleRaw":"Pegasus spyware"},{"id":15364,"slug":"pedro-sanchez","urlSafeValue":"pedro-sanchez","title":"Pedro S\u00e1nchez","titleRaw":"Pedro S\u00e1nchez"}],"widgets":[{"slug":"image","count":2}],"related":[],"technicalTags":[{"path":"euronews.byenglishwebteam"},{"path":"euronews"}],"video":0,"videos":[],"externalPartners":[],"liveStream":[{"startDate":0,"endDate":0}],"isLiveCoverage":0,"scribbleLiveId":0,"scribbleLiveRibbon":0,"sourceId":1,"sources":[],"freeField2":null,"type":"","program":{"id":"world","urlSafeValue":"world","title":"world news","online":1,"url":"\/\/www.euronews.com\/programs\/world"},"vertical":"news","verticals":[{"id":1,"slug":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"News"}],"primaryVertical":{"id":1,"slug":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"News"},"themes":[{"id":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"World","url":"\/\/www.euronews.com\/news\/international"}],"primaryTheme":{"id":1,"urlSafeValue":"news","title":"News"},"advertising":0,"advertisingData":{"startDate":0,"endDate":0,"type":null,"isDfp":null,"slug":null,"title":null,"disclaimerLabelKey":null,"sponsor":null,"sponsorName":null,"sponsorUrl":null,"sponsorLogo":"","sponsorLogoReverse":""},"geoLocation":{"lat":0,"lon":0},"location":1,"continent":{"id":104,"urlSafeValue":"europe","title":"Europe"},"country":{"id":435,"urlSafeValue":"spain","title":"Spain","url":"\/news\/europe\/spain"},"town":[],"grapeshot":"'gv_safe','gb_safe','gs_travel','gs_travel_locations','gs_travel_locations_africa','gt_negative','gs_science','gs_science_geography','gs_politics','gt_negative_anger','gs_travel_misc','gs_politics_misc'","versions":[],"programDeliverable":{"slug":"sujet","format":"default"},"storyTranslationMethod":[],"localisation":[],"showOpinionDisclaimer":0,"path":"\/2023\/08\/04\/spains-sanchezs-most-controversial-holiday-raging-opposition-with-his-trip-to-morocco","lastModified":1691159246},{"id":2337162,"cid":7796842,"versionId":2,"archive":0,"housenumber":"230802_NWSU_52637589","owner":"euronews","isMagazine":0,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Blast in northwest Spain leaves one person dead and over 12 injured","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Blast in northwest Spain leaves one person dead and 12 injured","titleListing2":"The explosion has killed one woman and injured at least 12 other people, two of them critically. Local authorities believe it could have been caused by a gas explosion.","leadin":"The explosion has killed one woman and injured at least 12 other people, two of them critically. Local authorities believe it could have been caused by a gas explosion.","summary":"The explosion has killed one woman and injured at least 12 other people, two of them critically. Local authorities believe it could have been caused by a gas explosion.","url":"blast-in-northwest-spain-leaves-one-person-dead-and-more-than-12-injured","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"An explosion in a four-storey apartment building in Valladolid, northwest Spain, has killed one woman and injured 12 people, two of them critically. \n\nThe blast took place late on Tuesday night in the city's main residential area. Authorities believe it could have been caused by a gas explosion on the first floor. \n\n\"The flames reached the top of the building,\" stated the firefighters to the Spanish agency EFE. After the explosion, firefighters had to work all night to try to extinguish the fire that was ravaging the building. \n\nEyewitnesses explained that, minutes before 11pm a loud explosion was heard, which alarmed the neighbours. \n\nFirefighters arrived immediately and managed to quickly evict them. However, two critically injured people - a man and his son - are recovering in the intensive care unit as they were severely burned. \n\nThe garage underneath the building fuelled the ferocity of the fire as eight cars and a motorbike were stored there, so according to firefighters \"the fuel load was brutal\". \n\nThe acting mayor of Valladolid, Irene Carvajal, confirmed during a press conference that there were only 13 people in the 20-unit building, as \"most of the neighbours were on holiday or away\". \n\nLocal officials say the building will not need to be entirely demolished.\u00a0 \n\nCarvajal pointed out that the structure of the old building, which dates to the last century - is \"seriously affected\", especially the ground floor area. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>An explosion in a four-storey apartment building in Valladolid, northwest Spain, has killed one woman and injured 12 people, two of them critically.<\/p>\n<p>The blast took place late on Tuesday night in the city&#039;s main residential area. Authorities believe it could have been caused by a gas explosion on the first floor.<\/p>\n<p>\"The flames reached the top of the building,\" stated the firefighters to the Spanish agency EFE. After the explosion, firefighters had to work all night to try to extinguish the fire that was ravaging the building.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1686506091566252032\"><\/div>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Firefighters attempt to access the residential building.<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Eyewitnesses explained that, minutes before 11pm a loud explosion was heard, which alarmed the neighbours.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters arrived immediately and managed to quickly evict them. However, two critically injured people - a man and his son - are recovering in the intensive care unit as they were severely burned.<\/p>\n<p>The garage underneath the building fuelled the ferocity of the fire as eight cars and a motorbike were stored there, so according to firefighters \"the fuel load was brutal\".<\/p>\n<p>The acting mayor of Valladolid, Irene Carvajal, confirmed during a press conference that there were only 13 people in the 20-unit building, as \"most of the neighbours were on holiday or away\".<\/p>\n<p>Local officials say the building will not need to be entirely demolished.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Carvajal pointed out that the structure of the old building, which dates to the last century - is \"seriously affected\", especially the ground floor area.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1690984082,"publishedAt":1690985008,"updatedAt":1690986655,"expiresAt":0,"canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/08\/02\/blast-in-northwest-spain-leaves-one-person-dead-and-more-than-12-injured","images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/05\/19\/22\/16\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_0a07b988-d32b-5472-9c3a-bd469b54f8d1-5192216.jpg","altText":"ARCHIVE - Firefighters work to extinguish a fire at a building in Badalona, Barcelona.","caption":"ARCHIVE - Firefighters work to extinguish a fire at a building in Badalona, Barcelona.","captionCredit":"Joan Mateu\/Copyright 2020 The AP. All rights reserved","captionUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"sourceUrl":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1024,"height":683}],"authors":{"journalists":[],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"id":7809,"slug":"spain","urlSafeValue":"spain","title":"Spain","titleRaw":"Spain"},{"id":10789,"slug":"gas-explosion","urlSafeValue":"gas-explosion","title":"Gas explosion","titleRaw":"Gas explosion"},{"id":10375,"slug":"fire","urlSafeValue":"fire","title":"Fire","titleRaw":"Fire"}],"widgets":[{"slug":"twitter","count":1}],"related":[],"technicalTags":[],"video":0,"videos":[],"externalPartners":[],"liveStream":[{"startDate":0,"endDate":0}],"isLiveCoverage":0,"scribbleLiveId":0,"scribbleLiveRibbon":0,"sourceId":1,"sources":[],"externalSource":"EFE","additionalSources":"","additionalReporting":"Euronews","freeField1":"","freeField2":null,"type":"","program":{"id":"world","urlSafeValue":"world","title":"world news","online":1,"url":"\/\/www.euronews.com\/programs\/world"},"vertical":"news","verticals":[{"id":1,"slug":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"News"}],"primaryVertical":{"id":1,"slug":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"News"},"themes":[{"id":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"World","url":"\/\/www.euronews.com\/news\/international"}],"primaryTheme":{"id":1,"urlSafeValue":"news","title":"News"},"advertising":0,"advertisingData":{"startDate":0,"endDate":0,"type":null,"isDfp":null,"slug":null,"title":null,"disclaimerLabelKey":null,"sponsor":null,"sponsorName":null,"sponsorUrl":null,"sponsorLogo":"","sponsorLogoReverse":""},"geoLocation":{"lat":0,"lon":0},"location":1,"continent":{"id":104,"urlSafeValue":"europe","title":"Europe"},"country":{"id":435,"urlSafeValue":"spain","title":"Spain","url":"\/news\/europe\/spain"},"town":[],"grapeshot":"'gv_death_injury','castrol_negative_uk','neg_mobkoi_castrol','neg_facebook','gb_death_injury_high_med','gb_death_injury_high_med_low','gb_death_injury_news-ent','neg_facebook_2021','neg_intel_en','gb_death_injury_edu','neg_nespresso','neg_saudiaramco','neg_umw_fs_12oct202','neg_mobkoi_feb2021','pos_equinor','gs_home','gs_home_property','gb_arms_high_med','gb_arms_high_med_low','gb_arms_news-ent','gs_auto'","versions":[],"programDeliverable":{"slug":"sujet","format":"default"},"storyTranslationMethod":[],"localisation":[],"showOpinionDisclaimer":0,"path":"\/2023\/08\/02\/blast-in-northwest-spain-leaves-one-person-dead-and-more-than-12-injured","lastModified":1690986655},{"id":2336976,"cid":7796174,"versionId":1,"archive":0,"housenumber":"230802_WBWB_52633921","owner":"euronews","isMagazine":0,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"We're celebrating the defeat of the Spanish far right for all the wrong reasons","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"We're toasting to Spanish far right's defeat for all the wrong reasons","titleListing2":"VIEW | Vox is nothing more than a simplified expression of the ideas that were always seen as acceptable by Spain's conservative hardliners, Antonio Maestre writes.","leadin":"Vox is nothing more than a simplified expression of the ideas that were always seen as acceptable by Spain's conservative hardliners, Antonio Maestre writes.","summary":"Vox is nothing more than a simplified expression of the ideas that were always seen as acceptable by Spain's conservative hardliners, Antonio Maestre writes.","url":"were-celebrating-the-defeat-of-the-spanish-far-right-for-all-the-wrong-reasons","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"In 1994, former Spanish Foreign Legion Corporal Massimo Testa de Andr\u00e9s died in Melilla and was buried in the city cemetery of La Pur\u00edsima.\u00a0 \n\nTesta's real name was Andrea Ghira: he was the infamous Butcher of Circeo and the perpetrator of one of the most violent crimes in Italian history.\u00a0 \n\nThere is not a single Italian citizen alive in 1975 who does not remember the photograph of bloodied and beaten Donatella Colasanti being helped out of the boot of a Fiat 127 where Ghira, Gianni Guido and Angelo Izzo had put her together with Rosario L\u00f3pez. \n\nThe three men kidnapped them, raped them for two days, tortured them, and left them both for dead while they went to have dinner with their families.\u00a0 \n\nThey drowned L\u00f3pez in a bathtub. Colasanti survived by pretending to drop dead after they struck her with an iron bar. \n\nThe crime was known as the Circeo massacre because it took place in the town where these three young men of the Roman bourgeoisie had a villa where they perpetrated the crime.\u00a0 \n\nThe three murderers were linked to fascist parties and organisations. They considered the kidnap, rape and murder of two working-class girls good entertainment.\u00a0 \n\nThe far-right hooligan Andrea Ghira never served a sentence for these crimes. He took refuge in Spain because all the fascists of the world have always known that it was a safe place for them and their ilk.\u00a0 \n\nFrancoism never left the mainstream \n\nBack to the present day: Europe, at least a part of it, has breathed a sigh of relief after seeing the results of the July general elections in Spain, in which the extreme right lost a significant portion of its seats in the parliament and has not managed to enter the government together with the Popular Party (PP) as the polls predicted. \n\nThe international press has since dubbed Spain as an anti-fascist bridgehead that has managed to go against the rising influence of the post-fascists on our continent today.\u00a0 \n\nYet, it did so without delving into the profound particularities of a country that has long metabolised its ideology within the institutions.\u00a0 \n\nIn Spain, the ideology that has never been persecuted or sanctioned is not seen as politically incorrect or unacceptable.\u00a0 \n\nIn fact, fascism, or its Spanish derivative, Francoism, has undergone a process of institutional integration during Francisco Franco's rule that makes it very difficult for it to stand apart from the mainstream in order to become novel or avant-garde, as it does in other European countries such as Germany or France, where it was persecuted. \n\nA history of letting fascists sleep peacefully \n\nWhat Germany, France and Italy do have in common is the exile of their leading figures of the criminal extreme right to Spain.\u00a0 \n\nThe cemeteries of Madrid are the final resting place of the most distinguished figures of international fascism. Only the leaders of the extreme right who were annihilated by the Partisans or persecuted by the\u00a0Allies did not fall into eternal sleep in the capital of Spain.\u00a0 \n\nThe cases are innumerable, but it is worth mentioning some of these infamous figures in the criminal history of fascism.\u00a0 \n\nPersonalities such as Ante Paveli\u0107, the Croatian Nazi Usta\u0161a leader who collected human eyes to decorate the centrepieces of his office tables, Louis Darquier de Pellepoix, the Nazi Vichy collaborationist in charge of Jewish affairs, and Otto Skorzeny, an SS colonel and head of Nazi special operations, passed through Spain, rested, took refuge and led a public and social life.\u00a0 \n\nThe collusion of the Spanish state, its dictatorship-derived laws surviving in democracy, a philo-fascist right wing and a social democracy unwilling to carry out a thorough revision of Franco's rule and bring foreign and domestic war criminals to justice made Spain a paradise for any fascist or Nazi in search of a peaceful retirement.\u00a0 \n\nProtections that were forged during Franco's regime continued in a democracy that refused to respect the demands of the countries of origin of the fugitives whenever extradition was requested, justified by the fact that certain crimes were not criminalised in the Spanish legal system. \n\nThose in Europe celebrating that Spain has not fallen prey to the extreme right in the last election do not fully understand that the danger lies not so much in an extreme right that will never get beyond 15% of the vote but rather in a conservative mainstream that is very affectionate to post-fascists because they have always felt close to the same ideas.\u00a0 \n\nVox only says the quiet part loud \n\nThe Spanish conservative right is much more radical than its counterpart in Germany and France for the simple reason that it was formed on the premise of the triumph of its local fascism.\u00a0 \n\nIn Spain, they were victorious and have not had to be ashamed of their legacy in the Civil War and dictatorship, whereas, in Germany or France, they were built on the premise of repudiation of a past or confrontation with Nazism in World War II.\u00a0 \n\nThe extreme right in Spain had been latent for many years within the PP itself, and Vox is nothing more than a simplified expression of the ideas always seen as acceptable by conservative hardliners.\u00a0 \n\nThe likes of Vox's leader Santiago Abascal simply dare to say them out loud and publicly defend them.\u00a0 \n\nAnd in the run-up to the 2024 European elections, Europe's conservatives, like their Spanish peers, are choosing the same attitude of quiet acceptance of the new far-right parties' fascist ideas. \n\nTo put it simply: the European conservative right has learned it cannot defeat the extreme right and has decided to build bridges with them instead.\u00a0 \n\nEurope's conservatives will now take a page out of Spain's book \n\nThe European People's Party (EPP) flagbearers, including Italy's Antonio Tajani and Germany's Manfred Weber, have already made strides to integrate fascists into the much larger conservative family. Alberto Nu\u00f1ez Feij\u00f3o would have been one more piece of that movement.\u00a0 \n\nThe leader of the Spanish PP wanted Italian Prime Minister and leader of the far-right Fratelli d'Italia Giorgia Meloni to join the EPP, as he made abundantly clear in a joint interview with the newspapers El Mundo and Corriere Della Sera.\u00a0 \n\nSpain is an example in Europe not for what has been celebrated as the brave resistance of PSOE's leader Pedro S\u00e1nchez to the rise of the extreme right, but for having been the archetype of a democratic state that has never dealt with lingering fascist ideas in the institutions favouring the impunity of those who committed crimes protected by that criminal ideology.\u00a0 \n\nAnd if anything, Spain will now serve as the model for how to integrate the extreme right into the mainstream without it being too noticeable. \n\nAntonio Maestre is a journalist and writer. He is a regular contributor to eldiario.es, La Sexta and La Marea, as well as Le Monde Diplomatique and Jacobin. Maestre is the author of books Los Rotos (\"The Broken Ones\"), Infames (\"Infamous\"), and Franquismo S.A. (\"Francoism PLC\"). \n\nAt Euronews, we believe all views matter. Contact us at view@euronews.com to send pitches or submissions and be part of the conversation. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>In 1994, former Spanish Foreign Legion Corporal Massimo Testa de Andr\u00e9s died in Melilla and was buried in the city cemetery of La Pur\u00edsima.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Testa&#039;s real name was Andrea Ghira: he was the infamous Butcher of Circeo and the perpetrator of one of the most violent crimes in Italian history.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There is not a single Italian citizen alive in 1975 who does not remember the photograph of bloodied and beaten Donatella Colasanti being helped out of the boot of a Fiat 127 where Ghira, Gianni Guido and Angelo Izzo had put her together with Rosario L\u00f3pez.<\/p>\n<p>The three men kidnapped them, raped them for two days, tortured them, and left them both for dead while they went to have dinner with their families.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They drowned L\u00f3pez in a bathtub. Colasanti survived by pretending to drop dead after they struck her with an iron bar.<\/p>\n<p>The crime was known as the Circeo massacre because it took place in the town where these three young men of the Roman bourgeoisie had a villa where they perpetrated the crime.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The three murderers were linked to fascist parties and organisations. They considered the kidnap, rape and murder of two working-class girls good entertainment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The far-right hooligan Andrea Ghira never served a sentence for these crimes. He took refuge in Spain because all the fascists of the world have always known that it was a safe place for them and their ilk.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Francoism never left the mainstream<\/h2><p>Back to the present day: Europe, at least a part of it, has breathed a sigh of relief after seeing the results of the July general elections in Spain, in which the extreme right lost a significant portion of its seats in the parliament and has not managed to enter the government together with the Popular Party (PP) as the polls predicted.<\/p>\n<p>The international press has since dubbed Spain as an anti-fascist bridgehead that has managed to go against the rising influence of the post-fascists on our continent today.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-quotation\n widget--size-fullwidth\n widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__content\">\n <blockquote class=\"widget__quote\">\n <span class=\"widget__quoteText\">Fascism, or its Spanish derivative, Francoism, has undergone a process of institutional integration during Franco's rule that makes it very difficult for it to stand apart from the mainstream in order to become novel or avant-garde.<\/span>\n <\/blockquote>\n <cite class=\"widget__author\">\n <\/cite>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//79//61//74//808x539_cmsv2_048eb250-1e4b-5a90-a187-b99056ae5b17-7796174.jpg/" alt=\"AP Photo&#47;Paul White\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/79\/61\/74\/384x256_cmsv2_048eb250-1e4b-5a90-a187-b99056ae5b17-7796174.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/79\/61\/74\/640x427_cmsv2_048eb250-1e4b-5a90-a187-b99056ae5b17-7796174.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/79\/61\/74\/750x500_cmsv2_048eb250-1e4b-5a90-a187-b99056ae5b17-7796174.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/79\/61\/74\/828x552_cmsv2_048eb250-1e4b-5a90-a187-b99056ae5b17-7796174.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/79\/61\/74\/1080x720_cmsv2_048eb250-1e4b-5a90-a187-b99056ae5b17-7796174.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/79\/61\/74\/1200x800_cmsv2_048eb250-1e4b-5a90-a187-b99056ae5b17-7796174.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/79\/61\/74\/1920x1281_cmsv2_048eb250-1e4b-5a90-a187-b99056ae5b17-7796174.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">A man with a pre-constitutional Spanish flag give fascist salute during the 47th anniversary of dictator Francisco Franco&apos;s death in Madrid, November 2022<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo&#47;Paul White<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Yet, it did so without delving into the profound particularities of a country that has long metabolised its ideology within the institutions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In Spain, the ideology that has never been persecuted or sanctioned is not seen as politically incorrect or unacceptable.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In fact, fascism, or its Spanish derivative, Francoism, has undergone a process of institutional integration during Francisco Franco&#039;s rule that makes it very difficult for it to stand apart from the mainstream in order to become novel or avant-garde, as it does in other European countries such as Germany or France, where it was persecuted.<\/p>\n<h2>A history of letting fascists sleep peacefully<\/h2><p>What Germany, France and Italy do have in common is the exile of their leading figures of the criminal extreme right to Spain.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The cemeteries of Madrid are the final resting place of the most distinguished figures of international fascism. Only the leaders of the extreme right who were annihilated by the Partisans or persecuted by the\u00a0Allies did not fall into eternal sleep in the capital of Spain.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The cases are innumerable, but it is worth mentioning some of these infamous figures in the criminal history of fascism.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Personalities such as Ante Paveli\u0107, the Croatian Nazi Usta\u0161a leader who collected human eyes to decorate the centrepieces of his office tables, Louis Darquier de Pellepoix, the Nazi Vichy collaborationist in charge of Jewish affairs, and Otto Skorzeny, an SS colonel and head of Nazi special operations, passed through Spain, rested, took refuge and led a public and social life.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-quotation\n widget--size-fullwidth\n widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__content\">\n <blockquote class=\"widget__quote\">\n <span class=\"widget__quoteText\">Those in Europe celebrating that Spain has not fallen prey to the extreme right in the last election do not fully understand that the danger lies ... in a conservative mainstream that is very affectionate to post-fascists because they have always felt close to the same ideas.<\/span>\n <\/blockquote>\n <cite class=\"widget__author\">\n <\/cite>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//79//61//74//808x539_cmsv2_0d6d09dc-e0a1-5440-b757-a3961dfe480d-7796174.jpg/" alt=\"AP Photo&#47;Manu Fernandez\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/79\/61\/74\/384x256_cmsv2_0d6d09dc-e0a1-5440-b757-a3961dfe480d-7796174.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/79\/61\/74\/640x427_cmsv2_0d6d09dc-e0a1-5440-b757-a3961dfe480d-7796174.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/79\/61\/74\/750x500_cmsv2_0d6d09dc-e0a1-5440-b757-a3961dfe480d-7796174.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/79\/61\/74\/828x552_cmsv2_0d6d09dc-e0a1-5440-b757-a3961dfe480d-7796174.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/79\/61\/74\/1080x720_cmsv2_0d6d09dc-e0a1-5440-b757-a3961dfe480d-7796174.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/79\/61\/74\/1200x800_cmsv2_0d6d09dc-e0a1-5440-b757-a3961dfe480d-7796174.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/79\/61\/74\/1920x1281_cmsv2_0d6d09dc-e0a1-5440-b757-a3961dfe480d-7796174.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">A woman with the phalanx symbol on her shirt holds a bouquet of flowers outside the San Isidro Cemetery in Madrid, April 2023<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo&#47;Manu Fernandez<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The collusion of the Spanish state, its dictatorship-derived laws surviving in democracy, a philo-fascist right wing and a social democracy unwilling to carry out a thorough revision of Franco&#039;s rule and bring foreign and domestic war criminals to justice made Spain a paradise for any fascist or Nazi in search of a peaceful retirement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Protections that were forged during Franco&#039;s regime continued in a democracy that refused to respect the demands of the countries of origin of the fugitives whenever extradition was requested, justified by the fact that certain crimes were not criminalised in the Spanish legal system.<\/p>\n<p>Those in Europe celebrating that Spain has not fallen prey to the extreme right in the last election do not fully understand that the danger lies not so much in an extreme right that will never get beyond 15% of the vote but rather in a conservative mainstream that is very affectionate to post-fascists because they have always felt close to the same ideas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Vox only says the quiet part loud<\/h2><p>The Spanish conservative right is much more radical than its counterpart in Germany and France for the simple reason that it was formed on the premise of the triumph of its local fascism.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In Spain, they were victorious and have not had to be ashamed of their legacy in the Civil War and dictatorship, whereas, in Germany or France, they were built on the premise of repudiation of a past or confrontation with Nazism in World War II.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The extreme right in Spain had been latent for many years within the PP itself, and Vox is nothing more than a simplified expression of the ideas always seen as acceptable by conservative hardliners.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//79//61//74//808x539_cmsv2_07943186-4ed7-5fd7-8b6d-f8da3b6b651b-7796174.jpg/" alt=\"Manu Fernandez&#47;Manu Fernandez\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/79\/61\/74\/384x256_cmsv2_07943186-4ed7-5fd7-8b6d-f8da3b6b651b-7796174.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/79\/61\/74\/640x427_cmsv2_07943186-4ed7-5fd7-8b6d-f8da3b6b651b-7796174.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/79\/61\/74\/750x500_cmsv2_07943186-4ed7-5fd7-8b6d-f8da3b6b651b-7796174.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/79\/61\/74\/828x552_cmsv2_07943186-4ed7-5fd7-8b6d-f8da3b6b651b-7796174.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/79\/61\/74\/1080x720_cmsv2_07943186-4ed7-5fd7-8b6d-f8da3b6b651b-7796174.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/79\/61\/74\/1200x800_cmsv2_07943186-4ed7-5fd7-8b6d-f8da3b6b651b-7796174.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/79\/61\/74\/1920x1281_cmsv2_07943186-4ed7-5fd7-8b6d-f8da3b6b651b-7796174.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">A Vox far right supporter holds a banner reading in Spanish &quot;Abascal (for) president&quot; during the closing campaign rally at the Colon square in Madrid, July 2023<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Manu Fernandez&#47;Manu Fernandez<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The likes of Vox&#039;s leader Santiago Abascal simply dare to say them out loud and publicly defend them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7790666,7772730\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2023//07//23//spanish-general-election-enters-final-hour-of-voting/">Spain's Conservative Party wins general election but falls short of governing majority<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//07//31//spains-socialists-plead-for-recount-as-they-lose-crucial-seat-after-overseas-vote-tally/">Spain's Socialists plead for recount as they lose crucial seat after overseas vote tally<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>And in the run-up to the 2024 European elections, Europe&#039;s conservatives, like their Spanish peers, are choosing the same attitude of quiet acceptance of the new far-right parties&#039; fascist ideas.<\/p>\n<p>To put it simply: the European conservative right has learned it cannot defeat the extreme right and has decided to build bridges with them instead.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Europe's conservatives will now take a page out of Spain's book<\/h2><p>The European People&#039;s Party (EPP) flagbearers, including Italy&#039;s Antonio Tajani and Germany&#039;s Manfred Weber, have already made strides to integrate fascists into the much larger conservative family. Alberto Nu\u00f1ez Feij\u00f3o would have been one more piece of that movement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The leader of the Spanish PP wanted Italian Prime Minister and leader of the far-right Fratelli d&#039;Italia Giorgia Meloni to join the EPP, as he made abundantly clear in a joint interview with the newspapers El Mundo and Corriere Della Sera.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//79//61//74//808x539_cmsv2_0a8ed5c2-7415-52df-8ee7-4d1aa25d4286-7796174.jpg/" alt=\"AP Photo&#47;Paul White\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/79\/61\/74\/384x256_cmsv2_0a8ed5c2-7415-52df-8ee7-4d1aa25d4286-7796174.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/79\/61\/74\/640x427_cmsv2_0a8ed5c2-7415-52df-8ee7-4d1aa25d4286-7796174.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/79\/61\/74\/750x500_cmsv2_0a8ed5c2-7415-52df-8ee7-4d1aa25d4286-7796174.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/79\/61\/74\/828x552_cmsv2_0a8ed5c2-7415-52df-8ee7-4d1aa25d4286-7796174.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/79\/61\/74\/1080x720_cmsv2_0a8ed5c2-7415-52df-8ee7-4d1aa25d4286-7796174.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/79\/61\/74\/1200x800_cmsv2_0a8ed5c2-7415-52df-8ee7-4d1aa25d4286-7796174.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/79\/61\/74\/1920x1281_cmsv2_0a8ed5c2-7415-52df-8ee7-4d1aa25d4286-7796174.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">A police officer walks ahead of a far-right march in Madrid, November 2019<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo&#47;Paul White<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Spain is an example in Europe not for what has been celebrated as the brave resistance of PSOE&#039;s leader Pedro S\u00e1nchez to the rise of the extreme right, but for having been the archetype of a democratic state that has never dealt with lingering fascist ideas in the institutions favouring the impunity of those who committed crimes protected by that criminal ideology.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And if anything, Spain will now serve as the model for how to integrate the extreme right into the mainstream without it being too noticeable.<\/p>\n<p><em>Antonio Maestre is a journalist and writer. He is a regular contributor to eldiario.es, La Sexta and La Marea, as well as Le Monde Diplomatique and Jacobin. Maestre is the author of books Los Rotos (\"The Broken Ones\"), Infames (\"Infamous\"), and Franquismo S.A. (\"Francoism PLC\").<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>At Euronews, we believe all views matter. 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Myanmar: Fashion industry giant Inditex to quit conflict-hit nation","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Goodbye Myanmar: Inditex to quit conflict-hit nation","titleListing2":"The company, which owns Zara, has announced it's in process of stopping purchases from Myanmar's garment factories due to a campaign by a global workers' union to convince companies to divest from the country.","leadin":"The company, which owns Zara, has announced it's in process of stopping purchases from Myanmar's garment factories due to a campaign by a global workers' union to convince companies to divest from the country.","summary":"The company, which owns Zara, has announced it's in process of stopping purchases from Myanmar's garment factories due to a campaign by a global workers' union to convince companies to divest from the country.","url":"goodbye-myanmar-fashion-industry-giant-inditex-to-quit-conflict-hit-nation","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Global fashion powerhouse Inditex has announced it is in the process of stopping purchases from conflict-hit Myanmar. \n\nThe Spanish company, which owns fast fashion giant Zara among other popular high street brands, has made the decision as a result of a campaign by global workers' union IndustriALL. \n\nThe organisation has called for the fashion industry to make a \u201cphased and responsible exit\u201d from the Asian nation, following increasing unrest. \n\nSince 2021, Myanmar has been in the midst of a political and humanitarian crisis after a military junta took power. \n\nWhile the country\u2019s garment industry is a major employer, supplying clothes and shoes to big Western brands and retailers, IndustriALL claims that labour rights have been badly affected since the coup. \n\nInditex has not yet given a timeline for its exit and it hasn\u2019t been made public exactly how many factories in Myanmar are supplying the fashion behemoth. \n\nWhat does this decision mean for the fashion industry - and for Myanmar? \n\nIt\u2019s a tricky time for the multi-billion euro\u00a0 company which hails from Galicia . \n\nInditex has recently renewed an agreement with IndustriALL which ensures the company will maintain dialogue with trade unions and make sure workers\u2019 needs are addressed throughout the supply chain. \n\nAnother apparel industry advocacy group, The Clean Clothes Campaign, have weighed in, expressing that brands continuing to source from Myanmar must \"conduct ongoing and heightened due diligence\". \n\nBrands and retailers across the globe have been under pressure to take their business out of Myanmar, but a mass exit would likely cause significant job losses and economic turmoil for workers. \n\nWhat does the EU say about the situation? \n\nThe European Union is taking a different approach, suggesting that companies should continue sourcing from the country. \n\nThe EU funds a project in Myanmar called MADE, a successor to the Smart Factories project. This has been in place since 2013 with the aim of improving conditions in the nation\u2019s garment factories. \n\nSeventeen well-established retailers are members of MADE, including H&M and Adidas. \n\nIn a letter seen by Reuters, Mario Ronconi, head of unit at the European Commission's Directorate-General for International Partnerships, wrote: \u201cThe EU and MADE partners believe that the interests of workers are best served by ongoing sourcing from the country, provided that this is pursued responsibly\". \n\nMango, a Spanish fast-fashion retailer and rival to Zara, stopped using manufacturers in Myanmar and British brand Marks & Spencer are planning to quit the country in October. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Global fashion powerhouse Inditex has announced it is in the process of stopping purchases from conflict-hit Myanmar.<\/p>\n<p>The Spanish company, which owns <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2023//04//28//frock-of-the-new-zaras-flagship-moscow-store-reborn-as-maag/">fast fashion giant Zara<\/strong><\/a> among other popular high street brands, has made the decision as a result of a campaign by global workers&#039; union IndustriALL.<\/p>\n<p>The organisation has called for the fashion industry to make a \u201cphased and responsible exit\u201d from the Asian nation, following increasing unrest.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6664615384615384\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//79//13//14//808x539_cmsv2_7ec613f4-ce44-5320-82af-ea0aab106c8d-7791314.jpg/" alt=\"Thiago Prudencio&#47;SOPA Images&#47;LightRocket via Getty Images\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/79\/13\/14\/384x256_cmsv2_7ec613f4-ce44-5320-82af-ea0aab106c8d-7791314.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/79\/13\/14\/640x427_cmsv2_7ec613f4-ce44-5320-82af-ea0aab106c8d-7791314.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/79\/13\/14\/750x500_cmsv2_7ec613f4-ce44-5320-82af-ea0aab106c8d-7791314.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/79\/13\/14\/828x552_cmsv2_7ec613f4-ce44-5320-82af-ea0aab106c8d-7791314.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/79\/13\/14\/1080x720_cmsv2_7ec613f4-ce44-5320-82af-ea0aab106c8d-7791314.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/79\/13\/14\/1200x800_cmsv2_7ec613f4-ce44-5320-82af-ea0aab106c8d-7791314.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/79\/13\/14\/1920x1280_cmsv2_7ec613f4-ce44-5320-82af-ea0aab106c8d-7791314.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">A popular Zara store in Barcelona<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Thiago Prudencio&#47;SOPA Images&#47;LightRocket via Getty Images<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Since 2021, Myanmar has been in the midst of a political and humanitarian crisis after a <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2022//07//25//myanmar-junta-executes-democracy-activists-amid-international-outcry/">military junta took power.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While the country\u2019s garment industry is a major employer, supplying clothes and shoes to big Western brands and retailers, IndustriALL claims that labour rights have been badly affected since the coup.<\/p>\n<p>Inditex has not yet given a timeline for its exit and it hasn\u2019t been made public exactly how many factories in Myanmar are supplying the fashion behemoth.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6666666666666666\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//79//13//14//808x539_cmsv2_dd0eafc5-61ef-5944-af3c-36e0751ed277-7791314.jpg/" alt=\"Shwe Paw Mya Tin&#47;NurPhoto via Getty Images\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/79\/13\/14\/384x256_cmsv2_dd0eafc5-61ef-5944-af3c-36e0751ed277-7791314.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/79\/13\/14\/640x427_cmsv2_dd0eafc5-61ef-5944-af3c-36e0751ed277-7791314.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/79\/13\/14\/750x500_cmsv2_dd0eafc5-61ef-5944-af3c-36e0751ed277-7791314.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/79\/13\/14\/828x552_cmsv2_dd0eafc5-61ef-5944-af3c-36e0751ed277-7791314.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/79\/13\/14\/1080x720_cmsv2_dd0eafc5-61ef-5944-af3c-36e0751ed277-7791314.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/79\/13\/14\/1200x800_cmsv2_dd0eafc5-61ef-5944-af3c-36e0751ed277-7791314.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/79\/13\/14\/1920x1280_cmsv2_dd0eafc5-61ef-5944-af3c-36e0751ed277-7791314.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Hundreds of thousands of people in Myanmar are currently employed in the garment industry<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Shwe Paw Mya Tin&#47;NurPhoto via Getty Images<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2><strong>What does this decision mean for the fashion industry - and for Myanmar?<\/strong><\/h2><p>It\u2019s a tricky time for the multi-billion euro\u00a0<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2022//06//26//clothes-made-from-carbon-emissions-why-zaras-new-line-is-just-more-greenwashing/">company which hails from Galicia<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Inditex has recently renewed an agreement with IndustriALL which ensures the company will maintain dialogue with trade unions and make sure workers\u2019 needs are addressed throughout the supply chain.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6666666666666666\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//79//13//14//808x539_cmsv2_62f7b70a-e641-56bc-b226-2068749dfa39-7791314.jpg/" alt=\"Shwe Paw Mya Tin&#47;NurPhoto via Getty Images\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/79\/13\/14\/384x256_cmsv2_62f7b70a-e641-56bc-b226-2068749dfa39-7791314.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/79\/13\/14\/640x427_cmsv2_62f7b70a-e641-56bc-b226-2068749dfa39-7791314.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/79\/13\/14\/750x500_cmsv2_62f7b70a-e641-56bc-b226-2068749dfa39-7791314.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/79\/13\/14\/828x552_cmsv2_62f7b70a-e641-56bc-b226-2068749dfa39-7791314.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/79\/13\/14\/1080x720_cmsv2_62f7b70a-e641-56bc-b226-2068749dfa39-7791314.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/79\/13\/14\/1200x800_cmsv2_62f7b70a-e641-56bc-b226-2068749dfa39-7791314.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/79\/13\/14\/1920x1280_cmsv2_62f7b70a-e641-56bc-b226-2068749dfa39-7791314.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Seamstresses working at a garment factory in Yangon, Myanmar, 2020<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Shwe Paw Mya Tin&#47;NurPhoto via Getty Images<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Another apparel industry advocacy group, The Clean Clothes Campaign, have weighed in, expressing that brands continuing to source from Myanmar must \"conduct ongoing and heightened due diligence\".<\/p>\n<p>Brands and retailers across the globe have been under pressure to take their business out of Myanmar, but a mass exit would likely cause significant job losses and economic turmoil for workers.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What does the EU say about the situation?<\/strong><\/h2><p>The European Union is taking a different approach, suggesting that companies should continue sourcing from the country.<\/p>\n<p>The EU funds a project in Myanmar called MADE, a successor to the Smart Factories project. This has been in place since 2013 with the aim of improving conditions in the nation\u2019s garment factories.<\/p>\n<p>Seventeen well-established retailers are members of MADE, including H&amp;M and Adidas.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6361476608187134\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//79//13//14//808x515_cmsv2_d9e34a96-242e-5076-8670-8a4eac7a5be1-7791314.jpg/" alt=\"Europa Press via Getty Images\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/79\/13\/14\/384x244_cmsv2_d9e34a96-242e-5076-8670-8a4eac7a5be1-7791314.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/79\/13\/14\/640x407_cmsv2_d9e34a96-242e-5076-8670-8a4eac7a5be1-7791314.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/79\/13\/14\/750x477_cmsv2_d9e34a96-242e-5076-8670-8a4eac7a5be1-7791314.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/79\/13\/14\/828x527_cmsv2_d9e34a96-242e-5076-8670-8a4eac7a5be1-7791314.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/79\/13\/14\/1080x687_cmsv2_d9e34a96-242e-5076-8670-8a4eac7a5be1-7791314.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/79\/13\/14\/1200x763_cmsv2_d9e34a96-242e-5076-8670-8a4eac7a5be1-7791314.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/79\/13\/14\/1920x1221_cmsv2_d9e34a96-242e-5076-8670-8a4eac7a5be1-7791314.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">A view of the Zara megastore in Valencia - 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A reconnection with the past for a unique tourist experience.","summary":"In this episode of Smart Regions, discover the European project to restore the island of Porto Santo, which is reviving its cultural heritage by rehabilitating its windmills and public fountains. A reconnection with the past for a unique tourist experience.","url":"the-mills-and-fountains-on-the-island-of-porto-santo-brought-back-to-life-for-visitors-to-","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Nearly a thousand kilometres south of Lisbon, in the middle of the Atlantic, stands Porto Santo, a biosphere reserve. Find out how this small island in the Madeira archipelago is restoring its unique heritage, showcasing its windmills and public fountains, to boost its tourism offering while preserving its heritage. \n\nA European project brings the \"Golden Island\" back to life \n\nPorto Santo, nicknamed the \"Golden Island\", is now seeing its treasures of yesteryear revived thanks to an ambitious European project. Its windmills and old public fountains, emblematic symbols of its cultural identity, have been neglected for too long. Now, however, these traditional architectural features are being restored to offer locals and visitors alike a glimpse into the island's past. \n\nPorto Santo was the temporary home of the famous navigator Christopher Columbus. Throughout its history, the Portuguese island played a key role as Madeira's granary, which led to the construction of its famous windmills in the 19th century. Today, these restored mills allow visitors to step back in time and relive the era when grain was ground to meet the region's food needs. \n\nThe fountains: the island's hidden treasures \n\nThe restoration project is not limited to the windmills. The municipality of Porto Santo has also taken the initiative to restore more than a dozen public fountains, water basins and drinking troughs. These water sources, which were once vital to the local population, are now back in use, offering residents and visitors the chance to reclaim their cultural heritage. Schoolchildren who came to discover the island were able to learn about the history of the fountains and mills and their importance to the local population. \n\nThe visiting pupils were amazed to learn how mills were used to grind cereals and how fountains were designed to solve water supply problems. This transmission of knowledge revives the collective memory and strengthens the link between current generations and Porto Santo's rich past. \n\nAn ambitious European project \n\nThe total cost of the project is more than \u20ac340,840. The European Union provided a major contribution of 85%, demonstrating its commitment to preserving Europe's cultural heritage. The municipality of Porto Santo funded the remaining 15%, also underlining its dedication to this conservation and enhancement project. \n\nThanks to this project, Porto Santo can look forward to a prosperous future in which its cultural heritage plays a central role in the island's tourism development. With the ongoing restoration of three additional mills, fourteen public fountains and a training and exhibition centre, the island is strengthening its identity and offering visitors a unique and enriching experience. \n\nThe dismantled mills have been entrusted to talented Madeiran craftsmen who are endeavouring to rebuild them faithfully in accordance with tradition. Thanks to meticulous conservation measures and the use of autoclave-treated pine wood, these restored mills should endure for many decades, perpetuating their history for future generations. \n\nThe restoration project in Porto Santo is much more than a simple architectural renovation; it is a journey back in time, a reconnection with the island's roots and a commitment to the conservation of Europe's cultural heritage. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Nearly a thousand kilometres south of Lisbon, in the middle of the Atlantic, stands Porto Santo, a biosphere reserve. Find out how this small island in the Madeira archipelago is restoring its unique heritage, showcasing its windmills and public fountains, to boost its tourism offering while preserving its heritage.<\/p>\n<h2>A European project brings the \"Golden Island\" back to life<\/h2><p>Porto Santo, nicknamed the \"Golden Island\", is now seeing its treasures of yesteryear revived thanks to an ambitious European project. Its windmills and old public fountains, emblematic symbols of its cultural identity, have been neglected for too long. Now, however, these traditional architectural features are being restored to offer locals and visitors alike a glimpse into the island&#039;s past.<\/p>\n<p>Porto Santo was the temporary home of the famous navigator Christopher Columbus. Throughout its history, the Portuguese island played a key role as Madeira&#039;s granary, which led to the construction of its famous windmills in the 19th century. Today, these restored mills allow visitors to step back in time and relive the era when grain was ground to meet the region&#039;s food needs.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-gallery widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" \n data-ratio=\"0.561755485893417\"\n data-gallery-img-nb=\"9\"\n data-gallery-key=\"4d1b6b30-2d20-11ee-b3a9-2f3dd514e1bb\"\n data-gallery-featured-index=\"0\"\n>\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure widget__figure-has-button\">\n <a class=\"widget__gallery__image__link\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"//my-europe//2023//07//31//the-mills-and-fountains-on-the-island-of-porto-santo-brought-back-to-life-for-visitors-to-?gallery=4d1b6b30-2d20-11ee-b3a9-2f3dd514e1bb#photo-1\" title=\"open image gallery\">\n <img class=\"widget__gallery__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//library//111//46//23//280//1114693f7d96f8fc68a2394c5e4e78a526fbb28005af//384x215.71410658307212_cmsv2_be55cf36-823b-567a-9160-de9e776d591d-1114693f7d96f8fc68a2394c5e4e78a526fbb28005af.jpg/" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/library\/111\/46\/23\/280\/1114693f7d96f8fc68a2394c5e4e78a526fbb28005af\/384x216_cmsv2_be55cf36-823b-567a-9160-de9e776d591d-1114693f7d96f8fc68a2394c5e4e78a526fbb28005af.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/library\/111\/46\/23\/280\/1114693f7d96f8fc68a2394c5e4e78a526fbb28005af\/640x360_cmsv2_be55cf36-823b-567a-9160-de9e776d591d-1114693f7d96f8fc68a2394c5e4e78a526fbb28005af.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/library\/111\/46\/23\/280\/1114693f7d96f8fc68a2394c5e4e78a526fbb28005af\/750x421_cmsv2_be55cf36-823b-567a-9160-de9e776d591d-1114693f7d96f8fc68a2394c5e4e78a526fbb28005af.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/library\/111\/46\/23\/280\/1114693f7d96f8fc68a2394c5e4e78a526fbb28005af\/828x465_cmsv2_be55cf36-823b-567a-9160-de9e776d591d-1114693f7d96f8fc68a2394c5e4e78a526fbb28005af.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/library\/111\/46\/23\/280\/1114693f7d96f8fc68a2394c5e4e78a526fbb28005af\/1080x607_cmsv2_be55cf36-823b-567a-9160-de9e776d591d-1114693f7d96f8fc68a2394c5e4e78a526fbb28005af.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/library\/111\/46\/23\/280\/1114693f7d96f8fc68a2394c5e4e78a526fbb28005af\/1200x674_cmsv2_be55cf36-823b-567a-9160-de9e776d591d-1114693f7d96f8fc68a2394c5e4e78a526fbb28005af.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/library\/111\/46\/23\/280\/1114693f7d96f8fc68a2394c5e4e78a526fbb28005af\/1920x1079_cmsv2_be55cf36-823b-567a-9160-de9e776d591d-1114693f7d96f8fc68a2394c5e4e78a526fbb28005af.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <\/a>\n <a class=\"widget__button u-color-white u-display-flex u-flex-direction-column u-margin-bottom-2 u-margin-bottom-medium-5 u-text-transform-none\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"//my-europe//2023//07//31//the-mills-and-fountains-on-the-island-of-porto-santo-brought-back-to-life-for-visitors-to-?gallery=4d1b6b30-2d20-11ee-b3a9-2f3dd514e1bb#photo-1\" title=\"open image gallery\">\n <div class=\"widget__button__title u-color-white u-margin-top-0 u-text-transform-none u-text-weight-bold\">View Gallery<\/div>\n <div class=\"widget__button__text u-display-flex u-text-weight-semibold u-text-size-extra-small\">9 Photos<\/div>\n <\/a>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<h2>The fountains: the island's hidden treasures<\/h2><p>The restoration project is not limited to the windmills. The municipality of Porto Santo has also taken the initiative to restore more than a dozen public fountains, water basins and drinking troughs. These water sources, which were once vital to the local population, are now back in use, offering residents and visitors the chance to reclaim their cultural heritage. Schoolchildren who came to discover the island were able to learn about the history of the fountains and mills and their importance to the local population.<\/p>\n<p>The visiting pupils were amazed to learn how mills were used to grind cereals and how fountains were designed to solve water supply problems. This transmission of knowledge revives the collective memory and strengthens the link between current generations and Porto Santo&#039;s rich past.<\/p>\n<h2>An ambitious European project<\/h2><p>The total cost of the project is more than \u20ac340,840. The European Union provided a major contribution of 85%, demonstrating its commitment to preserving Europe&#039;s cultural heritage. The municipality of Porto Santo funded the remaining 15%, also underlining its dedication to this conservation and enhancement project.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to this project, Porto Santo can look forward to a prosperous future in which its cultural heritage plays a central role in the island&#039;s tourism development. With the ongoing restoration of three additional mills, fourteen public fountains and a training and exhibition centre, the island is strengthening its identity and offering visitors a unique and enriching experience.<\/p>\n<p>The dismantled mills have been entrusted to talented Madeiran craftsmen who are endeavouring to rebuild them faithfully in accordance with tradition. Thanks to meticulous conservation measures and the use of autoclave-treated pine wood, these restored mills should endure for many decades, perpetuating their history for future generations.<\/p>\n<p>The restoration project in Porto Santo is much more than a simple architectural renovation; it is a journey back in time, a reconnection with the island&#039;s roots and a commitment to the conservation of Europe&#039;s cultural heritage.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1690192320,"publishedAt":1690822811,"updatedAt":1690824608,"expiresAt":0,"canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2023\/07\/31\/the-mills-and-fountains-on-the-island-of-porto-santo-brought-back-to-life-for-visitors-to-","images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/41\/12\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_85c2c572-b227-5482-8f33-2b606ae50e0b-7774112.jpg","altText":null,"caption":null,"captionCredit":"euronews","captionUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"sourceUrl":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1920,"height":1080}],"authors":{"journalists":[],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"id":12361,"slug":"cultural-heritage","urlSafeValue":"cultural-heritage","title":"Cultural Heritage","titleRaw":"Cultural Heritage"},{"id":574,"slug":"culture","urlSafeValue":"culture","title":"Culture","titleRaw":"Culture"},{"id":7809,"slug":"spain","urlSafeValue":"spain","title":"Spain","titleRaw":"Spain"}],"widgets":[{"slug":"gallery","count":1}],"related":[],"technicalTags":[],"video":1,"videos":[{"duration":180000,"editor":null,"filesizeBytes":23012883,"format":"mp4","type":"normal","url":"https:\/\/video.euronews.com\/mp4\/med\/EN\/SR\/SU\/23\/07\/31\/en\/230731_SRSU_52526778_52612609_180000_184932_en.mp4","expiresAt":0,"quality":"md"},{"duration":180000,"editor":null,"filesizeBytes":34180115,"format":"mp4","type":"normal","url":"https:\/\/video.euronews.com\/mp4\/EN\/SR\/SU\/23\/07\/31\/en\/230731_SRSU_52526778_52612609_180000_184932_en.mp4","expiresAt":0,"quality":"hd"}],"externalPartners":{"dailymotionId":"x8mwpqu","youtubeId":"0CggwGV5Yic"},"liveStream":[{"startDate":0,"endDate":0}],"isLiveCoverage":0,"scribbleLiveId":0,"scribbleLiveRibbon":0,"sourceId":1,"sources":[],"externalSource":"","additionalSources":"","additionalReporting":"Euronews","freeField1":"","freeField2":null,"type":"","program":{"id":"smart-regions","urlSafeValue":"smart-regions","title":"Smart Regions","online":1,"url":"\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/my-europe-series\/smart-regions"},"vertical":"my-europe","verticals":[{"id":2,"slug":"my-europe","urlSafeValue":"my-europe","title":"My Europe"}],"primaryVertical":{"id":2,"slug":"my-europe","urlSafeValue":"my-europe","title":"My Europe"},"themes":[{"id":"my-europe-series","urlSafeValue":"my-europe-series","title":"My Europe Series","url":"\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/my-europe-series"}],"primaryTheme":{"id":60,"urlSafeValue":"my-europe-series","title":"My-europe-series"},"advertising":1,"advertisingData":{"startDate":1451645557,"endDate":2114333578,"type":"sponsored","isDfp":null,"slug":"Smart-Regions-SPONSOR","title":"Smart Regions SPONSOR","disclaimerLabelKey":null,"sponsor":"The European Commission","sponsorName":"Smart-Regions-SPONSOR","sponsorUrl":null,"sponsorLogo":"","sponsorLogoReverse":""},"geoLocation":{"lat":0,"lon":0},"location":1,"continent":{"id":104,"urlSafeValue":"europe","title":"Europe"},"country":{"id":435,"urlSafeValue":"spain","title":"Spain","url":"\/news\/europe\/spain"},"town":[],"grapeshot":"'gv_safe','gb_safe','gs_science','gs_science_geography','gs_science_environ','gs_news_and_weather','gs_science_weather','gs_news','gs_science_environment','gs_vidgames'","versions":[],"programDeliverable":{"slug":"sujet","format":"default"},"storyTranslationMethod":[],"localisation":[],"showOpinionDisclaimer":0,"path":"\/my-europe\/2023\/07\/31\/the-mills-and-fountains-on-the-island-of-porto-santo-brought-back-to-life-for-visitors-to-","lastModified":1690824608}]" data-api-url="/api/country/spain">

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Babies who die before birth - but had a gestation period of more than six months - must be registered and can have a name in the Spanish civil registry. Feminists say it's a frontal attack on women's right to abortion.

15/08/2023

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Spain failed to reopen 'genuine access to asylum' at enclaves: NGOs

Three decades of migration deals between Spain and Morocco have led to fortified and almost impenetrable borders for asylum seekers.

14/08/2023

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Green News

San Sebastian ‘beautification plan’ chops down dozens of flame trees

Protestors are rallying against plans to remove more tree cover on the Canary Island of La Gomera.

11/08/2023

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Culture news

How did Loewe become the planet's hottest fashion brand?

The Spanish luxury house has been around for decades but has only just become stratospherically popular. Is it down to creative director Jonathan Anderson's input? Euronews Culture investigates.

11/08/2023

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Green News

Valencia: Record-breaking temperature of 46.8°C seen in coastal city

Local residents say the city is 'unlivebable'.

11/08/2023

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Spain

Sunbed wars: Costa chaos as tourists fight for a place by the pool

Hotels say without sunbed controls 'it would be a jungle' as tourists compete for prime locations at hotels all along the Spanish coast.

11/08/2023

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Spain sweltering in third heatwave of the summer

Meteorologists in Spain say they expect the extreme heat to last until Friday at the earliest, in the country's third heatwave this summer.

09/08/2023

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Green News

Spain introduces water restrictions as reservoirs run dry

A drought emergency has been declared in some parts of Catalonia where people are being urged to reduce their water consumption.

09/08/2023

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Spain curbs irregular immigration as numbers rise in Europe

While Spain managed to reduce the number of arrivals by 3.3%, Italy and Greece saw a 115% and 65% increase respectively, according to UNHCR figures.

09/08/2023

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Destinations

Why are Barcelona's restaurants turning away solo diners?

Local people are becoming increasingly frustrated by restaurants looking to maximise profits from tourists during the busy summer season.

08/08/2023

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Spain

Why Spain breaks job market records but tops EU's unemployment rate

Is Spain 'doomed' to unemployment? Although its job market has been breaking new records with the number of unemployed at a 15-year low, it still tops EU's unemployment rate.

07/08/2023

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Spain

Why has PM Sanchez's secret Moroccan holiday infuriated Spain?

There has been a last-minute change in Pedro Sánchez's holiday destination that no one knew about. He is now strolling the streets of Marrakech while the opposition recalls recent controversial concessions made to Rabat.

04/08/2023

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Spain

Blast in northwest Spain leaves one person dead and 12 injured

The explosion has killed one woman and injured at least 12 other people, two of them critically. Local authorities believe it could have been caused by a gas explosion.

02/08/2023

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We're toasting to Spanish far right's defeat for all the wrong reasons

Vox is nothing more than a simplified expression of the ideas that were always seen as acceptable by Spain's conservative hardliners, Antonio Maestre writes.

02/08/2023

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Culture news

Goodbye Myanmar: Inditex to quit conflict-hit nation

The company, which owns Zara, has announced it's in process of stopping purchases from Myanmar's garment factories due to a campaign by a global workers' union to convince companies to divest from the country.

01/08/2023

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Smart Regions

The mills and fountains of Porto Santo brought back to life

In this episode of Smart Regions, discover the European project to restore the island of Porto Santo, which is reviving its cultural heritage by rehabilitating its windmills and public fountains. A reconnection with the past for a unique tourist experience.

31/07/2023