El Pais

The head of French diplomacy Laurent Fabius said the refugee crisis called into question the functioning and purpose of Europe.

"Europe has experienced other crises. But this one, somehow, has called into question its reason for being and its very functioning," Fabius said in an interview for the dailies Le Figaro, La Tribune de Geneve, El Pais, La Repubblica, and Le Soir.

French investigators were on Aug. 22 interrogating a man who was overpowered by three young Americans after he opened fire with a Kalashnikov on a train between Amsterdam and Paris.
 

Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis said German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schauble planned to impose the Troika on Paris, Rome and Madrid in an interview to Spanish ‘El Pais’.

Spaniards started voting May 24 for mayors and regional leaders in a key test for new protest parties that could herald a historic change in Spain's political landscape ahead of a general election.

In an interview that was published today by the Spanish newspaper El Pais, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said that Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras must explain to the Greek people that not all of his pre-election promises can be kept.

According to Air Force General Staff Officer to protothema.gr on the deadly crash occurred Monday, January 26 in Spain, where eleven Greek and French pilots died, the crush was not caused from engine failure, as was originally indicated, but from damage to the control system of the F-16.

Spanish "El Pais" also reports that the Greek fighter aircraft had damage to the control system.

Europe may have to tighten its border controls in order to deter Islamic fighters returning to Europe from the Middle East, Spain's Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz has said.

Spanish media group Prisa, publisher of the country's most widely-read newspaper El Pais, evacuated its Madrid headquarters on Jan. 7 after receiving a suspect package, a company spokesman said.

A far-left party set up only in January is surging in Spain's opinion polls ahead of next year's general election, feeding off anger over corruption and unemployment, and shaking up the traditional two-party system.

Podemos, which means "We Can" in Spanish, took first place in a survey of voting intentions for the first time on Nov. 2.

The Constitutional Court of Spain has stopped the referendum on independence the province of Catalonia is planning to hold November 9.

Twelve magistrates made their ruling unanimously, during a session that lasted just about an hour, daily El Pais reports.

Their decision nullifies resolutions of Catalonia's Parliament which set the referendum date earlier in mid-September.