Gov’t revokes tax-exempt status for ‘Hazte Oír’ group
The Spanish Interior Ministry has announced it is suspending the tax-exempt status as an educational non-profit organization previously accorded ultra-Catholic group Hazte…
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Solar capacity jumps 94% after removal of ‘solar tax’
Spain’s production of solar energy jumped 94 percent last year with the installation of 261.77 megawatts of new photovoltaic power, according to…
Court sets Catalan trial date, prisoners transferred
Spain’s Supreme Court has set the 12th of February as the long-awaited date to begin oral arguments in the trial of Catalan…
UN: Spain now migrants’ principal gateway to Europe
Spain will continue to be the principal entry point to Europe for migrants and refugees fleeing unstable economic conditions and violence in…
Podemos avoids direct clash with Errejón, ‘Más Madrid’
Podemos has backed away from a direct confrontation with party co-founder Íñigo Errejón, following his decision to campaign in upcoming Madrid regional…
LGBT centre in Barcelona target of homophobic attack
A new municipal LGBT centre in Barcelona was attacked at the weekend by vandals who spray-painted homophobic slurs and broke windows, prompting…
Madrid seeks to prohibit use of animals in circus acts
Madrid’s city government has said it intends to modify an 18-year-old municipal animal protection law in order to ban circus acts using…
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,…
Oxfam Intermón report says Spain plagued by inequality
A new report issued by Oxfam Intermón on the occasion of the opening this week of the World Economic Forum 2019 in…
Podemos crisis as Errejón joins Carmena’s ‘Más Madrid’
The longtime simmering feud between Podemos party co-founders Íñigo Errejón and Pablo Iglesias over electoral strategies and political alliances erupted into crisis…
Spain ranked as one of 20 ‘full democracies’ worldwide
Spain has been given high marks in the annual global democracy index released earlier this month by The Economist, placing 19th out…
Progressive Spain’s Top Ten Video Posts for 2018
Following are 2018’s ‘Top Ten Videos’ posted at Progressive Spain — our third annual selection based on a combination of the power,…
Sánchez warns Catalans against violating Constitution
Spanish President Pedro Sánchez warned Catalan nationalist parties in Congress on Wednesday that his government will not tolerate any violation of Spain’s…
Substandard housing rife in Barcelona, warns Cáritas
The Catholic church’s Cáritas relief agency in Barcelona revealed Wednesday that nearly 950,000 people, representing 36 percent of the residents of 27…
Pablo Iglesias sole candidate for Podemos primary vote
After 90 candidates failed to show the sufficient backing required by Podemos to stand as the party’s presidential candidate in general elections anticipated for next…
Renter evictions rise as PAH faults Congress for inaction
This year is shaping up to be the worst in recent memory for evictions of renters and homeowners across Spain, according to…
Greenpeace targets Sánchez gov’t over Saudi arms sales
Activists from Greenpeace España unfurled a giant banner from Madrid’s Arco del Triunfo Monday on the occasion of international Human Rights Day,…
Podemos’ poor Andalucía showing widens rifts in party
While the poor showing of the governing Socialist party (PSOE) was a focus of Spanish and international news coverage of Sunday’s regional…
More migrants arriving illegally than 2015-17 combined
More than 59,000 migrants have arrived to Spain illegally by land and sea in the first 11 months of 2018, representing an…
‘La Manada’ rape trial headed to Spain’s Supreme Court
The controversial case of five men accused of gang-raping an 18-year-old woman during the 2016 San Fermín ‘Running of the Bulls’ festival…
PSOE dealt blow in shock Andalucía election results
Low voter turnout overall in Spain’s southernmost region of Andalucía combined with a favorable response to anti-immigrant and nationalist campaign rhetoric in…
Supreme Court orders demolition of Benidorm towers
Landmark twin residential towers that encroach upon the public right of way at Punta Llisera on the Bay of Benidorm in Alicante…
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…
Food banks need you! It’s annual ‘Gran Recogida’ time …
Spain’s Federation of Food Banks (FESBAL) has put out the call for volunteers to help with this weekend’s Gran Recogida (Big Collection)…
Cifuentes to stand trial, Montón cleared of wrongdoing
‘!No todos somos iguales!’ (‘We are not all the same!), exclaimed former Health Minister Carmen Montón in self-defense during a September press…
Solar plant design app wins Santander ‘Explorer’ award
A software app designed by a Spanish technology startup that enables the design and optimization of large-scale photovoltaic solar plants in just…
PSOE set to win vote, govern in coalition in Andalucía
With less than one week to go before crucial 2nd December elections in Spain’s southernmost region of Andalucía, voter preference polls are…
Thousands across Spain protest violence against women
Tens of thousands in cities across Spain marched Sunday to protest machista violence against women, joining millions of women and their supporters…
Local gov’t, animal shelters join push for ‘zero sacrifice’
A new public shelter for stray domestic animals in Valencia’s La Ribera region has pledged to adopt a policy of “zero sacrifice”…
High Court says gender violence code covers all women
Spain’s Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling Wednesday that moves the aggravated circumstance of gender violence attaching to a crime beyond the…
NGOs’ campaign effort aims to make homeless visible
In the run-up to the nationwide Dia de las Personas Sin Hogar (Homeless Persons’ Day) on Sunday 25th November, four Spanish non-governmental…