Alfonso Dastis

Following developments in Eastern Europe and Catalonia, EU foreign affairs ministers pledged more resources to fight against foreign interference in Europe, in particular coming from Russian actors.

 European Union foreign ministers approved economic sanctions including an arms embargo on Venezuela on Monday, blaming regional elections last month for deepening the South American country's crisis, Reuters reported.

Catalonia residents have begun to gather in front of the voting venues for the Sunday Independence Referendum, according to Reuters.

The vote was declared unconstitutional by the Madrid Supreme Court, but the regional authorities have expressed readiness to do so, despite all the government's efforts to prevent it.

Ivica Dacic sent a telegram of condolences to Spanish Foreign Minister Alfonso Dastis, in the wake of the terror attack in Barcelona that killed 13.

Intergovernmental bilateral cooperation between Serbia and Spain is at a very high level, Ivica Dacic and his Spanish hosts have agreed.

Serbia's acting PM and foreign minister was on Thursday on a one-day working visit to Spain, where he was received by President of the Congress of Deputies of the Spanish Parliament Ana Pastor, and Spanish Foreign Minister Alfonso Dastis.

Intergovernmental bilateral cooperation between Serbia and Spain is at a very high level, Ivica Dacic and his Spanish hosts have agreed.

Serbia's acting PM and foreign minister was on Thursday on a one-day working visit to Spain, where he was received by President of the Congress of Deputies of the Spanish Parliament Ana Pastor, and Spanish Foreign Minister Alfonso Dastis.

Acting Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic will make a working visit to Spain on Thursday.

His host will be Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs Alfonso Dastis, the Serbian government has announced.

Spain has said it would not "initially" veto an attempt by an independent Scotland to join the European Union after Britain has left the bloc, its foreign minister said in interview with Spanish newspaper El Pais.

Spain has long been seen as an obstacle to an independent Scotland joining the EU to deter separatists in some of its own regions. 

Spain's leader Mariano Rajoy, who kicks off a second term after months of political paralysis, formed a new cabinet on Nov. 3 that looks set to maintain controversial economic reforms and cement EU ties.