Podemos: migrant deportations breach coalition pact
The response by Spain’s Interior Minister to last week’s ruling by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) upholding express deportations of…
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NGO launches crowdfunding for LGBT migrant shelter
A crowdfunding appeal has been launched to help save a Madrid shelter for LGBT asylum seekers from closure after organizers say it…
Workers protected from sacking for repeated sick leave
Spain’s new Socialist-led coalition government has taken a first step toward dismantling onerous sections of labour legislation pushed through Congress by the…
Gov’t files lawsuit over ‘parental veto’ in Murcia schools
Spain’s new coalition government has filed a lawsuit against the regional government of Murcia over its failure to meet a 30-day deadline…
Belgian court keeps Puigdemont extradition option open
A Belgian court has denied an appeal to quash a request from Spain for extradition of former Catalan regional President Carles Puigdemont…
Spain second in European wind-power growth last year
Spain installed the second-highest capacity of wind-generated electricity in Europe last year, coming second only to the United Kingdom and ranking ahead…
European rights court OKs Spain’s ‘express’ deportations
A ruling on migrant rights by the European Court of Human Rights last week has placed the new coalition government led by…
Errejón to chair Congress anti-corruption commission
Íñigo Errejón, the co-founder of Podemos who split with his former party last year to launch Más País, has been selected to…
Guardia Civil see rise in poison, traps to kill animals
All over the world, animals are trapped, removed or killed both humanely and inhumanely. Many pests such as rats, bugs and birds…
Anticaps say ‘hasta luego’ to Podemos in Andalucía
After months of tension between the leadership of Podemos’ regional Andalucía affiliate and the party’s national leadership in Madrid, the two announced…
Gov’t projects rise in spending, budget deficit for 2020
Spain’s left-wing coalition government led by President Pedro Sánchez of the Socialist party announced Tuesday that it was increasing the spending ceiling…
Congress acts to strip medals from Franco-era torturer
The left-of-centre majority on the governing executive Mesa of Spain’s new Congress has overturned a previous block by right-wing parties on efforts…
Solar energy boom in Spain as foreign investment grows
Solar energy in Spain hit an all-time peak production record last week as foreign fossil-fuel companies scramble to get in on the…
PSOE seeks to outlaw exaltation of Franco dictatorship
The Socialist party (PSOE) President Pedro Sanchez hopes to make it a criminal offence to glorify former Spanish dictator Francisco Franco, the…
Activists protest arms bound for Saudi war in Yemen
Peace activists in Spain have protested what they say was the onloading of explosives onto a Saudi ship in the port of…
New euthanasia law expected to be passed by Congress
Spain’s Congress is set to begin debate Tuesday on legislation to legalize euthanasia, which if passed as expected by a majority of…
Surprise demand by Torra could scuttle Catalan talks
Spanish President Pedro Sánchez left a meeting Thursday in Barcelona with Catalan regional President Quim Torra thinking he had a deal with…
Ministry moves to quell VOX support within military
The Ministry of Defence has sacked the commander of a military base in Logroño in La Rioja province after the base hosted…
Puigdemont & Co are ‘personae non grata’ in Strasbourg
Former Catalan President Carles Puigdemont and two other separatist politicians from Catalonia now fully credentialed as European Parliament legislators (MEPs) are getting…
Transgender legislation advances in Canaries parliament
All parliamentary groups in the regional assembly of the Canary Islands have signed on to the introduction of new legislation put forward…
León program to help both homeless and their animals
The Veterinary Hospital of the University of León and the Spanish Red Cross of León have announced they will open two legal…
Sharp uptick in Spain’s January unemployment figures
Spain’s jobless figure for the month of January increased by 2.8 percent for a total of 90,248 unemployed individuals, while worker affiliation…
NGOs combat FGM among African migrant communities
The government of President Pedro Sánchez has added its voice to non-governmental organizations working to eradicate the practice of female genital mutilation…
NGO says migrant rights violated by Spain, Morocco
A non-governmental organization working to defend migrant rights in Spain says the reduction of some 50 percent in the flow of immigration…
Endesa set to build largest solar operation in Andalucía
The green power subsidiary of Spanish energy giant Endesa has been granted a license to build a new photovoltaic solar power plant…
Protest decries ongoing healthcare decline in Andalucía
Some 20,000 protesters marched through Sevilla on Sunday, converging on the Plaza de España to rally against inaction in resolving bottlenecks and…
Most gender-violence victims do not report attackers
A troubling phenomenon in the fight against gender violence and efforts to protect women from their agressors was brought into sharp focus…
Sánchez flip-flops over dialogue on Catalan conflict
In the space of just six hours on Thursday afternoon, President Pedro Sánchez performed an inelegant about-face on an earlier surprise decision…
Protests as Murcia gov’t persists with parental veto plan
Hundreds of feminist, LGBT+ and union activists turned out to protest the Murcian regional government’s decision to push ahead with its policy…
Catalan rugby team signs homophobic Australian star
The Perpignan-based Catalan Dragons rugby club, which plays some of its home matches in Barcelona’s Camp Nou football stadium, has signed controversial…
UN envoy to review causes of poverty, exclusion in Spain
The United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty, Philip Alston, will arrive to Spain Monday at the start of a two-week fact-finding…