McDonald’s bans plastic straws, vows 40% plastics cut
McDonald’s Spain has announced that as of 24th February it will no longer provide plastic straws to customers, part of its plan…
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Catalan president Torra loses seat in regional assembly
Catalan President Quim Torra was divested of his seat in the regional Parlament in a raucous session on Monday that drove a…
PSOE re-introduces euthanasia law in Congress
Spain’s Socialist party has re-introduced legislation in Congress to legalize euthanasia, with the government’s new Health Minister Salvador Illa saying he anticipates…
Mothers of stolen babies demand government action
Family members of babies taken from their mothers at birth in Spanish hospitals both during and after the Franco dictatorship protested Monday…
Socialists advance new Historical Memory legislation
The Socialist party (PSOE) took the first step on Friday of registering the text of a new “Law of Historical and Democratic…
Court says delivery riders exploited as false autónomos
The highest appeals court in the regional community of Madrid has handed a victory to 532 riders for the Deliveroo courier service…
Twitter suspends VOX account for ‘incitement to hatred’
Spain’s ultra-right VOX party has had its official account on Twitter suspended by the social-media platform after claiming falsely in a Tweet…
Sánchez to Davos: social justice, growth must co-exist
Spanish President Pedro Sánchez put forward a contrarian message Wednesday to the 2020 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland — that social…
Labour, employers agree 950€ monthly min wage
Representatives of Spain’s leading labour unions and employers’ federations have struck a compromise agreement to raise the benchmark monthly minimum wage by…
Calvo tells Vatican envoy church owes property taxes
Spain’s 1st Vice-President Carmen Calvo met with the Vatican’s new envoy to Spain Wednesday, telling him that the coalition government led by…
Spain signs up to global ‘climate emergency’ movement
In its Consejo de Ministros cabinet meeting on Tuesday, Spain’s new coalition government agreed to issue a formal Declaration of Climate and…
Gov’t greenlights 2% pay rise for public sector workers
The new coalition government’s weekly Consejo de Ministros cabinet meeting has approved an immediate 2 percent hike in salaries for public employees…
Coalition gov’t creates new animal welfare directorate
Spain’s new PSOE-Unidas Podemos coalition government has created a new animal protection directorate, coordinating jurisdictions over the protection of the welfare of…
Andalucian Socialist first female Guardia Civil director
Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska has named an Andalucian Socialist and longtime government administrator, María Gámez, to become the first woman ever to…
Gov’t vows court challenge to VOX ‘parental PIN’ plan
Spain’s government has vowed to challenge the regional government of Murcia in court if it proceeds with a plan that allows parents…
Minister says migrants key to pension system solvency
In an unusual pitch that runs counter-current to the fear-mongering, anti-immigrant rhetoric of nationalist parties across Europe in recent years, Spain’s new…
Clock ticking on Puigdemont EU parliament immunity
The European Parliament (EP) announced last week that it has begun proceedings that could result in the withdrawal of parliamentary immunity from…
Robles unceremoniously sacks military chief of staff
Just one day after the first Consejo de Ministros cabinet meeting of the new coalition government of President Pedro Sánchez, Defense Minister…
Activists urge end to Catalan ‘correbous’ bull-taunting
Nine animal-rights groups on Wednesday launched a new platform in Barcelona to stop bull-running events in Spain’s northwest region of Catalonia, releasing…
COPADE doubles innovative fair-trade programs in 2019
Spanish fair-trade foundation COPADE last year doubled the number of projects sponsored in Spain and abroad aimed at promoting the use of…
LGBT activists land key posts in new Equality ministry
Spain’s new Equality Minister, Irene Montero of Unidas Podemos, has named two longtime LGBT activists and former presidents of the National Federation…
Marlaska sacks officials, launching police reorganization
In his first act since being reconfirmed as Spain’s Interior Minister, Fernando Grande-Marlaska has initiated an anticipated shakeup of Spain’s national police…
New coalition cabinet approves 0.9% rise to pensions
► Spain’s first coalition cabinet since 1936 ‘Frente Popular’ government ► First time a gov’t ministerial cabinet has had four Vice-Presidencies ►…
Euro Parliament withdraws immunity from Junqueras
The European Parliament announced on Friday that it was reversing its decision to decision to recognize jailed Catalan separatist leader Oriol Junqueras…
Fourth V-P to push transition toward green economy
Incoming President Pedro Sánchez revealed on Thursday that the cabinet of his new progressive coalition government will be headlined by four vice-presidencies,…
Gender equality prioritized to ministry level in new gov’t
Equality among the sexes will assume top-line ministerial priority in the formation of the new progressive coalition government between the Socialist party…
Supercopa protest focuses on Saudi women’s rights
Women activists from Amnistía Internacional España have focused on the lack of women’s rights in Saudi Arabia in protesting the participation of…
How does your supermarket rate on reducing plastics?
Amid growing consumer pressure and a government push for reduction of single-use plastics so as to meet ambitious EU recycling targets for…
Iglesias to coordinate ‘Agenda 2030’ for coalition gov’t
In one of the final interventions of the congressional debate Tuesday that saw Socialist party general secretary Pedro Sánchez re-elected to a…
Greenalia opens first of five Galicia wind-energy parks
Spanish wind energy producer Greenalia has brought online the first of five wind-energy parks it expects to build this year in Galicia,…
Sánchez wins bid to form progressive coalition gov’t
► Socialist leader wins Congress vote 167-165, with 18 abstentions ► ‘YES’ votes (167): PSOE, Unidas Podemos, PNV, Mas País, Compromís, Nueva…