Beset by crises, is Podemos eyeing leadership change?
Pablo Iglesias returned to active duty on Saturday as general secretary of Podemos with a fiery appearance at a party rally in…
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PSOE campaign video links prostitution, sex-trafficking
Tipped to win the most number of seats in Spain’s elections of deputies to the European Parliament (EP) in May, Spain’s Socialist…
Torra defies Junta Electoral over banners in Catalonia
► Near-identical banner covers pro-independence symbols on gov’t building ► Catalan regional President Quim Torra on Thursday defied an order by Spain’s…
Activists project animal cruelty video onto McDonald’s
► Igualdad Animal protests animal cruelty in McDonald’s food production ► Video projected onto McDonald’s facade on International Day Without Meat ►…
High court bars public killing of Toro de la Vega bulls
Spain’s Supreme Court issued a definitive ruling on Monday that bans the public killing of bulls in the controversial Toro de la…
Vox fields pro-Franco retired military on candidates lists
As if to remove any doubts about just how “far right” Spain’s new ultra-conservative Vox party is, the party has announced among…
Gov’t sets surprise date, location for Franco re-burial
The family of Spain’s late-dictator Francisco Franco was apparently caught off guard Friday when the government of President Pedro Sánchez announced a…
Spanish students join protest against climate change
Groups of Spanish students rallying under the banner of Juventud por el clima (‘Youth for Climate’) will be joining students from around…
Spain gets poor marks on water resources management
Spain’s water resources policies for the protection of rivers, lakes, wetlands and underground aquifers are failing and nearly half the country’s river…
Morocco clears Spanish activist of migrant trafficking
Spanish migration rights activist Helena Maleno has been unconditionally freed by Morocco after a district court in Tangiers dismissed charges of immigration…
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…
2019 ‘Feminist Strike’ turns out hundreds of thousands
Hundreds of thousands of women and their supporters across Spain turned out for marches and rallies linked to Friday’s 8m Huelga Feminista…
‘Billy el Niño’ to face crimes against humanity charge
Accused Franco-era torturer Antonio González Pacheco, alias Billy el Niño (“Billy the Kid”), could finally face trial in Spain after a judge…
Judge orders trial over corruption in Saudi arms sales
A Spanish judge has ordered top officials of Spain’s joint public-private armaments manufacturing and export company DEFEX to stand trial on charges…
Parties scrambling to attract undecided women’s vote
Spain’s political parties are already vying for the vote of women in upcoming elections, amid the release of polling figures that suggest…
Ximo Puig calls early Valencia elections for 28th April
Valencian President Ximo Puig on Monday announced the first snap elections for the regional autonomous community since Spain’s return to democracy four…
Gov’t decrees pave way for PSOE election campaign
The outgoing Socialist party (PSOE) government of President Pedro Sánchez plans to use Spain’s express Decreto Ley process over the coming weeks…
Hazte Oír group uses Hitler image to attack ‘Feminazis’
Ultra-right group Hazte Oír has launched a new campaign using an image of Adolf Hitler to try to discredit gender violence laws…
Prosecutors call first of 256 witnesses in Catalan trial
Leading Spanish and Catalan politicians took the witness stand on Tuesday and Wednesday to mark the start of a new phase in…
Castilla-León regional court halts hunting in mid-season
The Superior Court of Justice (TSJ) in the region of Castilla-León has issued an injunction stopping hunting at the height of the…
Largest unions back national 8th March feminist strike
Spain’s largest labour unions have agreed to back the upcoming 8th March national feminist strike with various work stoppages and actions, marking…
Global index names Spain world’s healthiest country
Spain has been named the healthiest country in the world, jumping from sixth place to supplant Italy at the top of the…
Spain migrant arrivals spike, overall EU migration falls
Although illegal migration to Europe dropped significantly in 2018, a shift in Mediterranean migration routes made Spain the main point of entry…
Podemos sinks pensions reform initiative in Congress
A last-ditch effort prior to upcoming national elections in April to push through Congress reforms to Spain’s public pension system was torpedoed…
#VIDEO: Pedro Sánchez interview with RTVE
► President explains why elections called, points to govt’s legislative ‘wins’ ► ► Says Catalan separatists ‘afraid of dialogue’, right-wing seeks confrontation…
Sánchez calls early national elections for 28th April
President Pedro Sánchez on Friday announced he will dissolve Spain’s Congress as of 5th March to make way for new national elections…
Gov’t orders removal of Franco remains from monument
The government of President Pedro Sánchez on Friday announced the imminent removal of the remains of former dictator Francisco Franco from the…
Budget defeated, all eyes on Sánchez for early elections
The Spanish government’s 2019 federal budget proposal was defeated in Congress on Wednesday by a vote of 191 to 158 with one…
Opening arguments begin Catalan secessionsts’ trial
Opening arguments in the Supreme Court trial of 12 Catalan secessionist leaders were completed on Wednesday, paving the way for the appearance…
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…
Sánchez stresses respect for rights in Strasbourg visit
Just days before the scheduled start of the oral arguments phase in Spain’s high-profile Supreme Court trial of Catalan separatist leaders, President…