‘Some say we’ve gone too far’: Behind Sánchez’s plan to ‘regularise’ 500,000 undocumented migrants in Spain

2026-02-04 - 14:55

As anti-migration policies sweep the continent, the Spanish PM is going against the tide by announcing plans to legalise the status of undocumented migrants • Don’t get This Is Europe delivered to your inbox? Sign up here You don’t need a degree in political science to understand why so many supposedly centrist European leaders have begun talking about immigration in terms that would have been unthinkable even a few years ago. Far-right parties across the continent have fuelled their rise by seizing on the issue as a political cosh with which to beat their more mainstream and established rivals, whom they accuse of complacency, inaction and a failure to defend borders. Continue reading...