Gov’t activates plan to reverse rural depopulation
In an effort to address the chronic problem of depopulation in rural areas of Spain, President Pedro Sánchez took 12 members of…
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Actor Willy Toledo cleared of religious hate speech
Spanish actor Willy Toledo has been acquitted by a Madrid criminal court of the charges of hate-speech against religious sentiment and obstruction…
Gov’t says arms sales to Saudis resume with restrictions
Spain’s coalition government has lifted temporary restrictions on the sales of Spanish-made munitions and equipment to Saudia Arabia, with sales to be…
United Left (IU) ejects Feminist Party over trans dispute
Spain’s Izquierda Unida party, the junior political partner of the left-wing, anti-austerity Unidas Podemos coalition, has voted to expel from its ranks…
Court acquits Spanish rapper of glorifying terrorism
Spain’s Constitutional Court on Tuesday overruled the country’s Tribuna Supremo high court and acquitted the lead singer of Spanish rap-rock group Def…
Government approves rescue package for farm sector
The government’s Consejo de Ministros executive cabinet on Tuesday used Spain’s express Decreto Ley process to approve a package of 14 measures…
Spanish Catholic women push for equality within church
Dozens of Catholic women’s groups have organized to hold rallies on Sunday March 1st in front of Spain’s principal Catholic cathedrals to…
Anti-eviction activists distressed after Iglesias meeting
Following a meeting Friday with Unidas Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias, who is 2nd Vice President for Social Affairs in Spain’s new coalition…
Major retailers jump into Spain’s booming solar market
The Spanish subsidiary of French home-improvement chain Leroy Merlin is about to have some company in Spain’s retail solar-panel market, as Ikea,…
Sexual assault law ready for Congress by Women’s Day
A dispute between the Socialist party (PSOE) and its junior governing coalition partner Unidas Podemos over how best to advance legislation to…
Oxfam backs Iglesias’ call for minimum monthly income
Oxfam Intermón, the Spanish affiliate of the UK-based international aid agency Oxfam, has called on Spain to establish a guaranteed monthly income…
Sánchez gov’t, Catalan parties jockey for advantage
The government of President Pedro Sánchez and the leadership of Catalonia’s two main pro-independence parties appear to be jockeying for position in…
Podemos: migrant deportations breach coalition pact
The response by Spain’s Interior Minister to last week’s ruling by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) upholding express deportations of…
NGO launches crowdfunding for LGBT migrant shelter
A crowdfunding appeal has been launched to help save a Madrid shelter for LGBT asylum seekers from closure after organizers say it…
Workers protected from sacking for repeated sick leave
Spain’s new Socialist-led coalition government has taken a first step toward dismantling onerous sections of labour legislation pushed through Congress by the…
Gov’t files lawsuit over ‘parental veto’ in Murcia schools
Spain’s new coalition government has filed a lawsuit against the regional government of Murcia over its failure to meet a 30-day deadline…
Belgian court keeps Puigdemont extradition option open
A Belgian court has denied an appeal to quash a request from Spain for extradition of former Catalan regional President Carles Puigdemont…
Spain second in European wind-power growth last year
Spain installed the second-highest capacity of wind-generated electricity in Europe last year, coming second only to the United Kingdom and ranking ahead…
European rights court OKs Spain’s ‘express’ deportations
A ruling on migrant rights by the European Court of Human Rights last week has placed the new coalition government led by…
Errejón to chair Congress anti-corruption commission
Íñigo Errejón, the co-founder of Podemos who split with his former party last year to launch Más País, has been selected to…
Guardia Civil see rise in poison, traps to kill animals
All over the world, animals are trapped, removed or killed both humanely and inhumanely. Many pests such as rats, bugs and birds…
Anticaps say ‘hasta luego’ to Podemos in Andalucía
After months of tension between the leadership of Podemos’ regional Andalucía affiliate and the party’s national leadership in Madrid, the two announced…
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…
Congress acts to strip medals from Franco-era torturer
The left-of-centre majority on the governing executive Mesa of Spain’s new Congress has overturned a previous block by right-wing parties on efforts…
Solar energy boom in Spain as foreign investment grows
Solar energy in Spain hit an all-time peak production record last week as foreign fossil-fuel companies scramble to get in on the…
PSOE seeks to outlaw exaltation of Franco dictatorship
The Socialist party (PSOE) President Pedro Sanchez hopes to make it a criminal offence to glorify former Spanish dictator Francisco Franco, the…
Activists protest arms bound for Saudi war in Yemen
Peace activists in Spain have protested what they say was the onloading of explosives onto a Saudi ship in the port of…
New euthanasia law expected to be passed by Congress
Spain’s Congress is set to begin debate Tuesday on legislation to legalize euthanasia, which if passed as expected by a majority of…
Surprise demand by Torra could scuttle Catalan talks
Spanish President Pedro Sánchez left a meeting Thursday in Barcelona with Catalan regional President Quim Torra thinking he had a deal with…
Ministry moves to quell VOX support within military
The Ministry of Defence has sacked the commander of a military base in Logroño in La Rioja province after the base hosted…
Puigdemont & Co are ‘personae non grata’ in Strasbourg
Former Catalan President Carles Puigdemont and two other separatist politicians from Catalonia now fully credentialed as European Parliament legislators (MEPs) are getting…