Catalan nationalism divides Spain’s labour movement
The issue of Catalonia’s independence from Spain appears to be dividing the country’s labour movement, both nationwide and at the regional level…
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LABOURFILE :: Intersindical – CSC
Intersindical-CSC is a Catalonia-based labour union that claims to be both independent and class-based, with a presence throughout the Paisos Catalans, defined…
Uge Sangil takes reigns of national LGBT federation
Spain’s National Federation of Lesbians, Gays, Transsexuals and Bisexuals (FELGBT) on Sunday elected Eugenia “Uge” Sangil to a three year-term as president…
Spanish electric motosharing service eyes U.S. market
Spain’s electric motorscooter sharing service Muving, currently operating in 11 cities nationwide, is following up an expansive first year of operation with…
Madrid to appeal ‘Division Azul’ name change ruling
The Madrid municipal government has vowed to appeal a court ruling this week that Spain’s 2007 Historical Memory law does not require…
NGOs protest Spanish arms sales on eve of Saudi visit
A coalition of peace, human rights and development NGOs has called on Spain’s monarchy and government not to authorize an estimated 2-billion-euro…
InfoCircos petitions for EU-wide ban on circus animals
InfoCircos, a coalition of organizations working to stop the use of wild animals in circuses in Spain and across Europe, is going…
SEO/Birdlife volunteers embark on annual bird count
Spanish ornithological association SEO/Birdlife is mobilizing more than 1,000 volunteers this month to help count bird populations across Spain, part of the…
Alcalá to get Europe’s first solar-biomass heating plant
Alcalá de Henares in the Madrid regional community is slated to become the first city in Europe to provide heating to its…
Spain readying appeal of Germany’s Puigdemont ruling
Spanish Supreme Court Judge Pablo Llarena is studying an appeal to the Luxembourg-based Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), after…
Assaults, harassment of Madrid LGBT community on rise
Incidents of harassment, hate speech and physical assault against LGBT individuals in the regional community of Madrid grew by 34 percent in…
Valencia Socialists, Bloc campaign finances scrutinized
Political corruption charges have rattled the underpinnings of the Pacto del Botànic governing alliance in Spain’s Valencian community, with revelations that the…
PSOE censure of PP’s Cifuentes pressures Ciudadanos
The Socialist party (PSOE) in the Madrid regional assembly says it is filing a motion of censure (“no confidence”) against regional President…
Gov’t cuts budget commitment to fight gender violence
Leftwing opposition parties and leading feminist associations have charged the governing Partido Popular (PP) of President Marian Rajoy with abandoning Spain’s National…
Expert energy panel urges more renewables, tax on CO2
A 14-member expert panel set up by Spain’s government at the behest of Congress to advise on energy policies has issued a…
Ombudsman: economic recovery fueling social demands
Spain’s Defensor del Pueblo ombudsman has sounded a warning to the government and Spain’s political parties that continued adherence to austerity policies…
German prosecutor advances Puigdemont extradition
A public prosecutor’s office in Germany on Tuesday agreed that Catalonia’s former president Carles Puigdemont should be extradited to Spain on charges…
Circuses shift blame over elephant’s highway death
An association of circus operators in Spain has tried to shift the blame to animal-rights activists for Monday’s death of an elephant…
PSOE takes fight against Franco foundation to Senate
The Socialist party has called on the executive committee of Spain’s Senate to investigate whether or not the Fundación Nacional Francisco Franco,…
Polls confirm Ciudadanos’ rise at expense of PP, PSOE
As the country’s political parties begin to jockey for position in the run-up to next year’s European Parliament and Spanish municipal elections…
UGT, rights groups urge protection for domestic workers
Spain’s Unión General de Trabajadores (UGT) trade-union federation has called on the the government to fully incorporate into Spain’s social security system…
End in sight for Franco-era street signs saga in Madrid
The on-again, off-again saga of the Madrid municipal government’s effort to change the Franco era names of 52 streets in the Spanish…
Proactiva denounces campaign against refugee rescue
Spain’s Proactiva Open Arms refugee rescue organization has appealed to the European Parliament over what it says is a campaign of harassment…
PSOE rejects Catalonia coalition with Esquerra, Comúns
Spain’s national Socialist party (PSOE) responded Wednesday to a majority vote in Catalonia’s parliament symbolically proclaiming the right of any of three jailed…
Extremadura eases health card access for transsexuals
The regional assembly of Extremadura has directed the regional health ministry to begin to issue new health cards to transsexuals, making the…
Quarterly gender violence falls to lowest level in decade
The number of gender violence cases recorded in Spain during the first three months of 2018 has fallen to the lowest quarterly…
Andalucia takes legal action to stop Doñana gas drilling
The regional government of Andalucia said Tuesday said it is filing legal action and requesting a court injunction to halt natural gas…
Cantabria activists, gov’t oppose Saudi arms shipments
The regional government of Cantabria has called on port authorities in Santander to halt the loading of Spanish-made armaments onto a Saudi-flagged…
Podemos municipal branding survey nets scant response
A weekend survey of rank-and-file supporters of Podemos to decide whether the four-year-old anti-austerity party should modify its political branding in the…
Ecologistas say water diversion plan threatens habitat
Environmentalists in Spain warn that following winter rains and snow that increased the capture of runoff in reservoirs in some areas of…
Puigdemont arrested, faces extradition from Germany
Former Catalan President Carles Puigdemont was arrested in northern Germany on Sunday, after a Spanish Supreme Court judge re-issued European international warrants…