The Latest Breaking News from Pedro Sánchez

Spain’s Socialist Party has struck a deal with a fringe Catalan separatist party to grant an amnesty for potentially thousands of people involved in the region’s failed secession bid in exchange for its key backing of acting Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez to form a new government

Sánchez expresses solidarity with Alejo Vidal-Quadras, former People’s party leader in Catalonia, who is in stable condition

About 7,000 demonstrated against deal plan for Catalan separatists with 30 police and others hurt in violence

Three people have been arrested in a protest against negotiations between Spain’s acting government and Catalan separatist parties over a possible amnesty for thousands involved in Catalonia’s independence movement

A political hot potato singes progressives across the continent.

Members of Pedro Sánchez’s party vote 87% in favour of proposal to form government backed by smaller parties

Heir to throne pledges allegiance to constitution at congress in Madrid on her 18th birthday

Across the continent, the war is reopening old schisms within delicately stitched alliances as parties struggle to maintain a united response

Spain’s first official probe of sex abuse by clergy members or people connected to the Catholic Church includes a survey that indicates the number of victims could run into hundreds of thousands

Two parties vow labour reforms in effort to shore up support – but still need Catalan separatists’ backing to form government

Thousands of ordinary citizens got into legal trouble for their parts in Catalonia’s illegal independence bid that brought Spain to the brink of rupture six years ago