Activists oppose hotel planned for Almeria natural park
The Partido Popular-led right-wing regional government of Andalucía is on the verge of approving construction of a four-star hotel with 33 rooms,…
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2,870% hike in Spain arms sales to Saudis in one year
The policy of Spain’s “progressive” coalition government regarding arms sales to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has made a radical about-face since…
Shuttered coal-fired plants not replaced by renewables
Spain has shut down seven of the country’s 15 coal-fired power plants, as plant operators say they cannot afford to invest sufficiently…
Gov’t greenlights ERTEs furlough plan through Sept 30th
Spain’s coalition government on Friday passed decree legislation that will extend the ERTEs temporary work furlough program through September 30th, following an…
Top three Defence Ministry posts now held by women
For the first time in the history of Spain, the country’s Ministry of Defense will be led entirely headed by women, after…
Nissan, Alcoa closures loom large in economic downturn
Spain’s central government and regional authorities in Catalonia and Galicia have been left scrambling to avert imminent plant closures by multinationals Nissan…
Oxfam: Pandemic could push 700,000 more into poverty
Tenuous gains made in the fight against poverty over the last four years as Spain began easing out of its last economic…
Judges overrule PP’s veto of Madrid Central traffic fines
Two local judges have cancelled the year-long moratorium on the payment of fines by motorists for driving vehicles in downtown Madrid in…
Canaries migrant arrivals already reach last year’s total
Spain’s Canary Islands are experiencing an “exponential increase” in the arrival of migrants to the islands off Morocco’s Atlantic coast so far…
Court rules against permanent use of interim employees
A Spanish judge in a district administrative court in Alicante has ruled that an employee of the Alicante municipality who had been…
Madrid denied hospital access to elderly with COVID-19
The scandal in Madrid over denial of hospital access to residents of care homes for the elderly at the height of the…
Talks stall on temporary furlough scheme extension
The coalition government has been forced to delay legislation to extend through end-September a special ERTE temporary work furlough program implemented to…
Gov’t parties say PP seeks to limit recovery funding
The parties of Spain’s progressive coalition government have charged the country’s conservative opposition Partido Popular (PP) party with actively working in Brussels…
Gov’t kicks off guaranteed minimum income program
The Spanish government on Monday launched its new scheme to provide guaranteed minimum income (ingreso mínimo vital or IMV) to the country’s…
Court says harm to domestic animal is misdemeanor
Spain’s Supreme Court has upheld a Cantabrian regional court ruling against a man accused of beating and causing serious injuries to a…
Spain’s economy among worst-hit by COVID, says OECD
More dire predictions for Spain’s economy have surfaced in the past week, with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the…
Pacts signal Ciudadanos returning to political centre
What’s going on with Ciudadanos? The once up-and-coming centre-right party that lurched sharply to the right under former leader Albert Rivera, then…
Post-lockdown ‘new normalcy’ places bullfights on hold
As Spain prepares to return to a “new normality” when the country’s COVID-19 lockdown is lifted later this month, continued restrictions on…
Trial over Spanish Jesuits’ murder in El Salvador begins
Spain’s highest criminal court opened proceedings Monday against a former high-ranking Salvadoran military officer accused of masterminding the murder in El Salvador…
Thousands protest racism at Madrid rally on Sunday
Several thousand people gathered Sunday in Madrid to protest racism and show their solidarity with Black Lives Matter protests worldwide in the…
Guaranteed minimum income aims to reduce poverty
Spain’s coalition government has given the green light on Friday to a new Minimum Living Wage program, a guaranteed minimum income scheme…
Coalition tenses over Podemos ‘wealth tax’ proposal
The first session of the special “Reconstruction Commission” in Spain’s Congress got off to a bumpy start Thursday, with two opposing viewpoints…
Spain set to receive 140bn of EC’s 750bn recovery plan
Spain is set to receive a total of 77 billion in grants and 63 billion euros in credit as part of a…
Franco-era torturer Billy the Kid, victim die of COVID-19
Justice will ultimately not be served in the case of accused Franco-era torturer Antonio González Pacheco, alias Billy el Niño (“Billy the…
Gov’t eyes microtuning de-escalation within provinces
Spain’s government was expected to confirm Thursday that a de-escalation of the coronavirus lockdown at the provincial level in four phases announced…
PP, VOX refuse to support gender-violence measures
Spain’s Congress ratified emergency legislation on Wednesday over the protests of the conservative Partido Popular and ultra-right VOX parties that provides special…
Cities look to cycling as safe post-lockdown transport
Several Spanish cities are joining a move by authorities in major urban areas worldwide to create more cycling lanes in order to…
Spain wins UN arbitration against goldmine in Galicia
Canadian mining company Edgewater has lost an international arbirtration claim for compensation for a goldmine in the province of A Coruña closed…
Police nab suspected serial killer of Barcelona homeless
Catalonia’s Mossos d’Esquadra regional police force say they have arrested a many they believe to be a serial killer responsible for the…
Parties jockey for position over economic reconstruction
The push from Spain’s government for all-party consensus on how to rebuild the national economy following the coronavirus crisis grinds slowly on,…
COVID-19 hits female health-workers twice as hard
Studies being released by a UN agency and professional and university researchers in Spain are pointing to a clear gender-gap among healthcare…