Spain

Floods in Spain last week killed more than 200 people, a grim but tangible reminder of how disasters can overwhelm even advanced economies.

With a Socialist anti-independence leader in Catalonia, dialogue appears to have paid off. But the Spanish PM paid a high price.

Carles Puigdemont, the leader-in-exile of Catalonia’s separatist movement, returned to Barcelona today in an act of desperation.