Spain nets 140bn euros in compromise EU recovery deal
► Final deal cuts direct grants to 72.7bn, ups loans to 67.3bn with EU oversight ► Spain agrees not to repeal Rajoy-era…
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Gov’t to unfreeze local budget surpluses to aid recovery
Spain’s coalition government has told the national association of municipalities and provinces that local town councils across Spain will be allowed to…
Decade of austerity cuts undermined healthcare system
The Spanish section of global rights campaigner Amnesty International has issued a damning report on the gutting of Spain’s public healthcare system…
Minister rebuffs proposed blanket amnesty for migrants
The Minister of Social Security, Inclusion and Migration, José Luis Escrivá, has defended a case-by-case analysis of the situation of each migrant…
Spain led Europe in new solar, wind capacity in 2019
Spain took the lead among European countries in 2019 in the installation of both photovoltaic solar capacity and wind-powered electricity installation according…
Relatives urge victims’ removal from Valley of Fallen
The families of eight victims of the Franco regime who believe their family members’ remains are buried in the Valle de los…
Gov’t extends freeze on mortgages, loans, utilities cutoff
The coalition government’s Consejo de Ministros executive cabinet on Tuesday voted to extend through September 30th the moratorium on payment of mortgages…
Outbreaks cascade across Spain’s regional communities
Cascading coronavirus outbreaks have spread across 15 of Spain’s 17 autonomous regional communities since the state-of-alert lockdown was lifted, with the national…
2,870% hike in Spain arms sales to Saudis in one year
The policy of Spain’s “progressive” coalition government regarding arms sales to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has made a radical about-face since…
Shuttered coal-fired plants not replaced by renewables
Spain has shut down seven of the country’s 15 coal-fired power plants, as plant operators say they cannot afford to invest sufficiently…
Gov’t greenlights ERTEs furlough plan through Sept 30th
Spain’s coalition government on Friday passed decree legislation that will extend the ERTEs temporary work furlough program through September 30th, following an…
Top three Defence Ministry posts now held by women
For the first time in the history of Spain, the country’s Ministry of Defense will be led entirely headed by women, after…
Oxfam: Pandemic could push 700,000 more into poverty
Tenuous gains made in the fight against poverty over the last four years as Spain began easing out of its last economic…
Court rules against permanent use of interim employees
A Spanish judge in a district administrative court in Alicante has ruled that an employee of the Alicante municipality who had been…
Talks stall on temporary furlough scheme extension
The coalition government has been forced to delay legislation to extend through end-September a special ERTE temporary work furlough program implemented to…
Gov’t parties say PP seeks to limit recovery funding
The parties of Spain’s progressive coalition government have charged the country’s conservative opposition Partido Popular (PP) party with actively working in Brussels…
Gov’t kicks off guaranteed minimum income program
The Spanish government on Monday launched its new scheme to provide guaranteed minimum income (ingreso mínimo vital or IMV) to the country’s…
Court says harm to domestic animal is misdemeanor
Spain’s Supreme Court has upheld a Cantabrian regional court ruling against a man accused of beating and causing serious injuries to a…
Spain’s economy among worst-hit by COVID, says OECD
More dire predictions for Spain’s economy have surfaced in the past week, with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the…
Pacts signal Ciudadanos returning to political centre
What’s going on with Ciudadanos? The once up-and-coming centre-right party that lurched sharply to the right under former leader Albert Rivera, then…
Post-lockdown ‘new normalcy’ places bullfights on hold
As Spain prepares to return to a “new normality” when the country’s COVID-19 lockdown is lifted later this month, continued restrictions on…
Trial over Spanish Jesuits’ murder in El Salvador begins
Spain’s highest criminal court opened proceedings Monday against a former high-ranking Salvadoran military officer accused of masterminding the murder in El Salvador…
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…
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…
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…
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…