Medical NGOs pitch in to help Spain fight coronavirus
Non-government organizations specializing in medical assistance and disease prevention are doing their part to help stop COVID-19 in Spain, deploying to the…
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Sánchez: European unity in jeopardy over coronavirus
In an open letter published in ten leading European newspapers on Sunday, Spanish President Pedro Sánchez told EU leaders that the fate…
Spain’s air pollution falls 55% during coronavirus crisis
Air pollution across Spain fell by more than half in the last two weeks of March, with air contamination in Madrid and…
TOP HEADLINES: Coronavirus crisis in Spain …
Summary of some of the top headlines in national news media this morning, with links to the original sources in Spanish ……
TOP HEADLINES: Coronavirus crisis in Spain …
Summary of some of the top headlines in national news media this morning, with links to the original sources in Spanish ……
TOP HEADLINES: Coronavirus crisis in Spain …
Summary of some of the top headlines appearing in Spain’s daily newspapers & news sites this morning, with links to the original…
Spain now has 2nd-most coronavirus deaths worldwide
Spain became the country with the second-most number of fatalities from coronavirus worldwide on Wednesday, with the number of deaths surpassing those…
Regions shelter homeless during coronavirus lockdown
Regional and local governments across Spain are rushing to get homeless people off the streets and into shelters to minimize the spread…
Sánchez to Congress: Coronavirus ‘worst is yet to come’
Spanish President Pedro Sánchez told legislators in Congress on Wednesday that the worst of Spain’s COVID-19 epidemic is yet to come, while…
Elderly at highest-risk in Spain’s coronavirus epidemic
Following the deaths from coronavirus of 19 residents at a Madrid senior-care facility Tuesday, the concern is mounting for the elderly in…
Spain’s gypsy community target of coronavirus racism
An national federation of women’s groups from Spain’s Roma community has complained of a spate of racist and anti-gypsy messages being disseminated…
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…
Spain’s coronavirus crisis could last four or five months
Officials in Spain’s Health Ministry are now saying that the coronovirus epidemic in Spain will last anywhere from two to five months,…
Valencia’s ‘Fallas’ suspended over coronavirus fears
Valencia’s regional government has announced the postponement until further notice of the massive annual Fallas celebrations in the city of Valencia, as…
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Spain nets 140bn euros in compromise EU recovery deal
► Final deal cuts direct grants to 72.7bn, ups loans to 67.3bn with EU oversight ► Spain agrees not to repeal Rajoy-era…
Gov’t to unfreeze local budget surpluses to aid recovery
Spain’s coalition government has told the national association of municipalities and provinces that local town councils across Spain will be allowed to…
Decade of austerity cuts undermined healthcare system
The Spanish section of global rights campaigner Amnesty International has issued a damning report on the gutting of Spain’s public healthcare system…
Minister rebuffs proposed blanket amnesty for migrants
The Minister of Social Security, Inclusion and Migration, José Luis Escrivá, has defended a case-by-case analysis of the situation of each migrant…
Catalonia’s COVID outbreaks muddle nationalist agenda
Nearly all of Catalonia 7.5 million residents will be required to wear facemasks both in enclosed public spaces and in most outdoor…
Gov’t extends freeze on mortgages, loans, utilities cutoff
The coalition government’s Consejo de Ministros executive cabinet on Tuesday voted to extend through September 30th the moratorium on payment of mortgages…
Outbreaks cascade across Spain’s regional communities
Cascading coronavirus outbreaks have spread across 15 of Spain’s 17 autonomous regional communities since the state-of-alert lockdown was lifted, with the national…
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…
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…
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…
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…