Society

New European study led by Barcelona institute says keeping to WHO air quality guidelines would reduce incidence by 11% per year

City council says results are "very satisfactory" while saving on official inspections and police involvement

The city council met with ‘top manta’ representatives on Wednesday

The city’s mayor believes private establishments should also have to fight sexist behavior

The European Council for Refugees and EuroMed Rights warn that blocking the ships goes "against the rule of law"

City representatives will soon sit with illegal street sellers to discuss their claims of "persecution and repression" by local authorities

Corporate Europe Observatory's Kenneth Haar calls on cities to challenge higher authorities for powers to manage affordable housing problems

Irregular street sellers demonstrate on Rambla in response to crackdown by local authority

Aimed above all at tourists, 'Buy legal' is a new council initiative in the same week it began cracking down on 'top manta' vendors 

The Catalan NGO continues to rescue migrants stranded in the Mediterranean despite opposition from the authorities

Court to consider prosecuting him for reckless endangerment after he ran over 92-year-old while checking his phone, say reports

Newspaper says terrorists were not tracked before incidents, but digital publication insists secret reports it used were independent of police investigation

Despite being plagued by problems, work on the city's grand intermodal station continues but with no fixed completion date 

With the new police crackdown on illegal selling, spokesman says sellers have no alternative and calls on mayor to "remember her promises" 

Some hundred officers from three forces again patrolled key areas of the city to discourage illegal street selling