During the Ceuta migration crisis, Rabat is said to have repeatedly violated Spanish territorial waters, coming close to a naval clash. The government remained silent for months and now the Prime Minister is playing down the incident. Meanwhile, Philip VI is visiting the exclaves and Morocco appears keen to facilitate a return to normality ahead of the elections

Investigating magistrate Beatriz Biedma, who has committed the Prime Minister’s brother to stand trial, has joined the proceedings as a civil party in the investigation into the ‘scandal’ surrounding the Spanish Socialist Party. Meanwhile, rumours are beginning to circulate in Madrid about a possible candidacy for Begoña Gomez in the general election on 29 November

The sociologist and director of the Esade Centre for Economic Policy: “We need measures that, in the long term, will enable new homes to be built and, in the short term, will encourage existing properties to enter the rental market. The decrees do not achieve this.”

It is more constructive to protest over rents and classrooms than to chant from the river to the sea. However, care must be taken not to pursue anti-capitalist battles that cast private individuals and their investments as part of the problem rather than part of the solution.

The (suspended) arrest warrant against Puigdemont and a region where the political fate of the (Spanish) nation could once again be decided

The Spanish election, Die Linke’s victory in Berlin and the new protests in European cities. Rents, evictions and social housing are putting governments and opposition parties to the test. A map of the demonstrations and the reasons behind the protests

The Socialist leader offers an original interpretation of the Constitution, stating that whilst awaiting a new Parliament, it is right for the government to provide answers to the public. However, he glosses over the second decree, and the first turns out to be decidedly more centrist than previously announced. Meanwhile, the Spanish Supreme Court has revoked the arrest warrant for Carles Puigdemont, the Catalan independence leader who has been on the run in Belgium for years.

The new elections are scheduled for 29 November. It will be a tough fight for the President’s party: the latest polls suggest that the combined votes for the PP and Vox will secure an absolute majority of seats

Pedro Sánchez has resigned and announced snap elections. He admitted that the government had “made mistakes” and had not achieved all its stated objectives. The trigger was the rejection, last Friday in Parliament, of the two housing decrees