Prosecutors open investigation over hunting dogs video
Public prosecutors in the province of Cáceres have opened a criminal investigation into animal cruelty after disturbing video footage circulated on social…
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Sánchez gov’t opens door to early elections in 2019
Spanish President Pedro Sánchez has opened the door to the possibility of early general elections next year after saying Friday that his…
CCOO tells youth to organize for better, stable jobs
The leader of Spain’s largest trade-union federation has called on Spanish youth to reject the precarious employment situation that they have been…
Femen activists interrupt Falange event honoring Franco
Three Spanish activists from the international feminist direct-action group Femen bared their breasts in Madrid on Sunday to reveal anti-fascist slogans painted…
Spain NGOs seek increase in overseas development aid
An umbrella federation of more than 80 Spanish NGOs working on development projects and providing humanitarian assistance around the world has called…
Tech startup promotes UN sustainability compliance
A Spanish tech startup that launched last year in the United States and Mexico is now coming home to Spain with the…
Unidos Podemos seeks hunting curb to protect wildlife
The Unidos Podemos parliamentary group in Congress has called on the Socialist party government of President Pedro Sánchez to introduce greater restrictions…
Podemos suspends all of party’s Madrid city councillors
Six Madrid city council members from leftwing party Podemos who intend to form part of Madrid Mayor Manuela Carmena’s cross-party coalition ticket…
Pay gap means women working ‘free’ for rest of year
The chronic pay gap that exists between men and women performing the same task in workplaces across Spain effectively means that from…
Sánchez vows to change law so banks pay mortgage tax
Spanish President Pedro Sánchez on Wednesday pledged to introduce legislation that would override a Supreme Court decision this week that said home…
IKEA set to go solar, provide electric vehicle recharge
Swedish retail chain IKEA has announced that its stores across Spain will soon begin offering free electric vehicle recharge to customers as…
Gov’t maneuvers to block Franco burial at La Almudena
The new Socialist government of President Pedro Sánchez appears ready this week or next to introduce amendments to legislation already pending in…
Hazte Oír tour attacks Left, feminism, LGBT community
Ultra-Catholic group Hazte Oír (Make Yourself Heard) is currently on tour again in Spain, this time moving beyond the group’s trans-phobic messaging…
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…
Migrant deaths continue as arrivals by sea skyrocket
Four migrants attempting to reach Spain died at the weekend and Spanish authorities are still searching for bodies of 13 others in…
Whither Franco? Artist’s protest enters the discussion
A Spanish artist from Galicia on Wednesday painted a red dove of peace and the words Por la Libertad! (For Liberty) on…
PACMA to defend animal rights in Andalucía elections
Spain’s PACMA animal-rights party has announced its slate of candidates for 2nd December regional elections in Andalucía, saying the party is campaigning…
Gov’t to extend statute of limitations on child sex abuse
Health Minister Maria Luisa Carcedo has confirmed that the government of President Pedro Sánchez is preparing to significantly extend the statute of…
Spanish Left, feminists split on approach to prostitution
Spain’s Ministry of Labour, Immigration and Social Security has officially called for the Fiscalia government prosecutors’ office to begin legal proceedings to…
One year later, Catalan independence movement divided
One year on from the Catalan parliament’s 27th October 2017 proclamation of independence from Spain, a new public opinion survey by the…
Gov’t, unions, owners agree to end coal mining this year
Spain’s government, miners’ unions and coal operators have inked a deal that will end coal mining in Spain before the new year…
Podemos, PSOE move to decriminalize insults to Crown
Spain’s Congress voted 180-160 on Tuesday to move forward with legislation proposed by the Unidos Podemos parliamentary group that if approved following…
Gov’t intends to ban groups that glorify Franco regime
The government of President Pedro Sánchez has officially confirmed it is working on reforms to the country’s 2007 Law of Historical Memory…
NGOs launch mobile app to combat discrimination
A national network of 18 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) defending the rights and promoting the inclusion of immigrants and refugees in Spain has…
Court puts brakes on bank payouts to mortgage holders
Spain’s Supreme Court has announced a special 31-judge panel will convene on 5th November to decide the fate of last week’s ruling…
Nationalist rift in Ada Colau’s ‘En Comú-Podem’ party
►► UPDATE 29/10/18: Elisenda Alamany resigns as Comuns’ spokesperson in Catalan parliament A void left by the surprise resignation last month of…
Spain deports migrants who scaled Melilla border fence
More than 200 mainly Sub-Sahara African migrants managed to scale the border fence separating Morocco and the Spanish enclave city of Melilla…
Spain’s poor see no benefit from economic ‘recovery’
Two new reports issued this week show that poverty remains a chronic problem in Spain and the number of Spaniards living at…
Andalucía gender-equality law debuts amid criticism
A long-awaited regional gender-equality law took effect in Andalucía on Tuesday amid criticism that it fails to resolve many issues surrounding inequality…
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…
Prosecutors eye lesser sentences for Catalan ‘Indepes’
Spanish prosecutors assigned to the nation’s Supreme Court system are sad to be considering requesting lesser sentences for leaders of Catalonia’s secessionist…