Guaranteed minimum income aims to reduce poverty
Spain’s coalition government has given the green light on Friday to a new Minimum Living Wage program, a guaranteed minimum income scheme…
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Coalition tenses over Podemos ‘wealth tax’ proposal
The first session of the special “Reconstruction Commission” in Spain’s Congress got off to a bumpy start Thursday, with two opposing viewpoints…
Spain set to receive 140bn of EC’s 750bn recovery plan
Spain is set to receive a total of 77 billion in grants and 63 billion euros in credit as part of a…
Franco-era torturer Billy the Kid, victim die of COVID-19
Justice will ultimately not be served in the case of accused Franco-era torturer Antonio González Pacheco, alias Billy el Niño (“Billy the…
Gov’t eyes microtuning de-escalation within provinces
Spain’s government was expected to confirm Thursday that a de-escalation of the coronavirus lockdown at the provincial level in four phases announced…
PP, VOX refuse to support gender-violence measures
Spain’s Congress ratified emergency legislation on Wednesday over the protests of the conservative Partido Popular and ultra-right VOX parties that provides special…
Cities look to cycling as safe post-lockdown transport
Several Spanish cities are joining a move by authorities in major urban areas worldwide to create more cycling lanes in order to…
Spain wins UN arbitration against goldmine in Galicia
Canadian mining company Edgewater has lost an international arbirtration claim for compensation for a goldmine in the province of A Coruña closed…
Police nab suspected serial killer of Barcelona homeless
Catalonia’s Mossos d’Esquadra regional police force say they have arrested a many they believe to be a serial killer responsible for the…
Parties jockey for position over economic reconstruction
The push from Spain’s government for all-party consensus on how to rebuild the national economy following the coronavirus crisis grinds slowly on,…
COVID-19 hits female health-workers twice as hard
Studies being released by a UN agency and professional and university researchers in Spain are pointing to a clear gender-gap among healthcare…
NO2 pollution and diesel linked to COVID-19 death rate
New research correlating air pollution levels and COVID-19 deaths in Europe has singled out the Spanish capital of Madrid and northern Italy…
Court convicts Podemos deputy over eviction protest
Defense attorneys for Isabel Serra, a prominent member of Unidas Podemos and deputy for the party in the Madrid regional assembly, have…
Spain floats new finance scheme for EU reconstruction
An ambitious 1.5-trillion-euro compromise proposal by Spain to help Europe finance its way to economic recovery after the coronavirus emergency passes appears…
Gov’t sees gradual lifting of lockdown starting 27th April
► UPDATE: Gov’t to let children under 14 accompany parents on errands ► Criteria change OKs minors in supermarkets, banks, on walks…
Minimum income for most vulnerable to be ready in May
Minister of Social Security José Luis Escrivá confirmed in a committee hearing in Spain’s Congress on Wednesday that a new minimum income…
Numbers chaos over testing, non-hospital deaths count
Spain’s Health Ministry reported a slight decrease in the number of deaths from COVID-19 on Wednesday, while noting a sharp increase of…
Spain braces for worst recession since 1930s Civil War
► IMF projects Spain GDP to plummet -8% this year, with 21% jobless rate ► Government readies for worst recession since 1936,…
NGOs urge regard for children’s health in confinement
Non-governmental organizations working to promote and defend children’s rights in Spain have urged the government to ease the coronavirus lockdown restrictions on…
Despite criticism, Sánchez gov’t lifts some restrictions
Amid criticism from Spain’s opposition parties, some regional government leaders and unease within the leadership of governing coalition partner Unidas Podemos, on…
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…
Eurogroup reach compromise deal on COVID-19 funding
Finance Ministers for the 19 Eurogroup countries of the 27-member European Union (EU) reached a compromise deal on Thursday to commit some…
Sánchez says ‘new normal’ won’t lift until vaccine found
President Pedro Sánchez told members of Spain’s Congress on Thursday that the government’s de-escalation of the measures adopted to combat the coronavirus…
In midst of crisis, Europe’s largest solar park goes online
In the midst of Spain’s coronavirus crisis, Spanish energy giant Iberdrola has flipped the switch on Europe’s largest solar energy facility, bringing…
EU marathon meeting fails to reach COVID-19 accord
European Union Finance ministers meeting in an all-night video-conference session Tuesday, adjourned their marathon meeting at 8 o’clock Wednesday morning no closer…
Right-wing behind social media lies attacking gov’t
Teams of technology sleuths have detected a pattern of right-wing participation in online campaigns using doctored photos, phony videos and false claims…
Migrants released from processing centres amid crisis
Spain’s Interior Ministry has announced that due the COVID-19 crisis it has freed all undocumented migrants awaiting processing in five of the…
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…
Gov’t preparing to isolate ‘asymptomatic positive’ cases
Spanish President Pedro Sánchez has asked leaders of the country’s 17 regional autonomous communities to begin preparing for isolation of people who…
Sánchez seeks opposition support for crisis measures
A beleaguered Spanish President Pedro Sánchez, under pressure to show results from efforts to stem the further spread of COVID-19 and under…
Ministry insists on quality control of respirator projects
As Spain struggles to come up with sufficient respiratory ventilators to save critically ill COVID-19 patients in hospitals across the country, the…