Proposed budget deal includes social spending rise
President Pedro Sánchez of the Spanish Socialist party (PSOE) and Podemos General Secretary Pablo Iglesias signed an accord Thursday for increased social…
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Gov’t projects rise in spending, budget deficit for 2020
Spain’s left-wing coalition government led by President Pedro Sánchez of the Socialist party announced Tuesday that it was increasing the spending ceiling…
PSOE shrugs off defeat, presses on with budget proposal
The minority Socialist party (PSOE) government of President Pedro Sánchez has vowed to press ahead with efforts to pass its 2019 budget,…
Catalonia protests put pressure on Torra over budget
Draconian budget cuts initiated in 2010 and continued in successive years under the government of Catalonia’s ex-President Artur Mas appear to be…
Socialists oust Rajoy gov’t with ‘no confidence’ vote
► Socialist leader Sánchez to be formally sworn in as President on Monday ► ► Censure vote on heels of Gürtel corruption…
Unidos Podemos propose €24.5bn gov’t spending hike
► Plan eyes €11.5bn tax rise to combat social injustice, economic inequality ► In keeping with their roots in Spain’s 15M anti-austerity…
Andalucía tops local gov’t spending on social services
► Study ranks 25 best and 41 worst municipalities on social-services spending ► A newly released study on the provision of social…
Unidos Podemos, PSOE critize gov’t budget proposal
• Unidos Podemos slams ongoing ‘pillage’, PSOE says it will vote against budget • Save the Children says gov’t offers 10pct of…
Madrid mayor balks at social spending rollback
• Manuela Carmena says she’ll not back away from 200-mn euro spending hike • Mayor reaffirms commitment to projected 21% increase in…
PSOE knocks back Podemos power-sharing offer on 14 counts, including Catalonia, tax & spending hikes
• Podemos ‘obsession with political control’ over judiciary, media criticised • Spain’s Socialist party (PSOE) on Saturday knocked back a proposal made…
PSOE leader Sánchez tackles PP’s Rajoy on corruption, social spending cuts during TV debate
• Sánchez goes after Rajoy in bid to close gap in opinion polls • Corruption, social spending cuts dominate harsh tone of…
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…
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,…
Spain floats new finance scheme for EU reconstruction
An ambitious 1.5-trillion-euro compromise proposal by Spain to help Europe finance its way to economic recovery after the coronavirus emergency passes appears…
COVID-19 stretching EU consensus to breaking point
► Germany, Holland and Austria insist on ‘every country for itself’ approach ► Spain, Italy balk at ESM mechanism linked to structural…
FOCUS: Why Spain’s hospitals are not better prepared
In a televised address Saturday evening on the state of Spain’s coronavirus crisis, President Pedro Sánchez made crystal clear that the primary…
Sánchez centralizes control of fight against coronavirus
After a grueling seven-hour meeting of the government’s Council of Ministers executive cabinet, Spanish President Pedro Sánchez announced late Saturday a series…
DOCUMENT: PSOE-Unidas Podemos coalition accord
Follows is an English-language translation of the 10-point ‘pre-agreement’ toward a coalition government between the Socialist party (PSOE) and Unidas Podemos, signed…
Polls give PSOE slim advantage in upcoming elections
A survey of recent voter opinion polls published at the weekend in the national newspaper Público gives a slim advantage in upcoming…
Gov’t calls off talks over Catalan referendum insistence
Spain’s Socialist party government on Friday called off talks on Catalonia’s future with pro-independence leaders of Catalonia’s Generalitat regional leadership. The decision…
Pedro Sánchez: snap elections or play the long game?
Following the formal indictment of 22 Catalan independence leaders Friday on charges related to the northeast region’s October 2017 illegal independence referendum…
Madrid to index, set price limits on residential rentals
Madrid’s city council has ordered preparation of a study leading to the development of a price index to be used in setting…
PSOE lifts Rajoy veto of Podemos legislative initiatives
In the first real sign of a possible thaw in relations between Spain’s Socialist party (PSOE) and leftwing rival Podemos , the…
PP, Ciudadanos vote to block housing legislation
Representatives of the governing Partido Popular (PP) and centre-right ally Ciudadanos on the Mesa Directiva executive committee of Congress have voted to…
NGOFILE :: Cáritas Española ~ Spanish Caritas
► Cáritas Española ~ Spanish Caritas Cáritas Española is the Spanish affiliate of the Catholic church’s international charity and humanitarian relief agency…
NGOFILE :: Cáritas Española ~ Spanish Caritas
Cáritas Española is the Spanish affiliate of the Catholic church’s international charity and humanitarian relief agency Cáritas Inernational, working within Spain as…
PSOE wants to shore up pensions with new tax on banks
► Budget fixes, minimum wage hike part of plan to revert pensions deficit ► Pedro Sánchez, general secretary of Spain’s Socialist party…
Podemos bases approve Castilla-LM coalition with PSOE
• Podemos members vote 78-22% in favor of entering coalition with Socialists • Anti-austerity party expected to hold 2 cabinet seats, control…
Sánchez, Iglesias & Rivera to work together for change
• PSOE to set up separate working groups with Podemos and Ciudadanos • Party leaders agree to jointly develop specific legislative reform…
Podemos triggers crisis for PSOE in Castilla-La Mancha
• Podemos revolts over Socialist vetoes of amendments on social spending items • PSOE ‘Baron’ García-Page finds himself short two votes needed…
Spain overseas development aid falls to pre-2000 levels
• Spain now ranked 26th of 28 European countries providing overseas aid • Development aid slashed 73 pct since 2008, despite return…