Femen activists interrupt Falange event honoring Franco
Three Spanish activists from the international feminist direct-action group Femen bared their breasts in Madrid on Sunday to reveal anti-fascist slogans painted…
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Spain NGOs seek increase in overseas development aid
An umbrella federation of more than 80 Spanish NGOs working on development projects and providing humanitarian assistance around the world has called…
Tech startup promotes UN sustainability compliance
A Spanish tech startup that launched last year in the United States and Mexico is now coming home to Spain with the…
Unidos Podemos seeks hunting curb to protect wildlife
The Unidos Podemos parliamentary group in Congress has called on the Socialist party government of President Pedro Sánchez to introduce greater restrictions…
Podemos suspends all of party’s Madrid city councillors
Six Madrid city council members from leftwing party Podemos who intend to form part of Madrid Mayor Manuela Carmena’s cross-party coalition ticket…
Pay gap means women working ‘free’ for rest of year
The chronic pay gap that exists between men and women performing the same task in workplaces across Spain effectively means that from…
Sánchez vows to change law so banks pay mortgage tax
Spanish President Pedro Sánchez on Wednesday pledged to introduce legislation that would override a Supreme Court decision this week that said home…
IKEA set to go solar, provide electric vehicle recharge
Swedish retail chain IKEA has announced that its stores across Spain will soon begin offering free electric vehicle recharge to customers as…
Gov’t maneuvers to block Franco burial at La Almudena
The new Socialist government of President Pedro Sánchez appears ready this week or next to introduce amendments to legislation already pending in…
Hazte Oír tour attacks Left, feminism, LGBT community
Ultra-Catholic group Hazte Oír (Make Yourself Heard) is currently on tour again in Spain, this time moving beyond the group’s trans-phobic messaging…
Pedro Sánchez: snap elections or play the long game?
Following the formal indictment of 22 Catalan independence leaders Friday on charges related to the northeast region’s October 2017 illegal independence referendum…
Migrant deaths continue as arrivals by sea skyrocket
Four migrants attempting to reach Spain died at the weekend and Spanish authorities are still searching for bodies of 13 others in…
Whither Franco? Artist’s protest enters the discussion
A Spanish artist from Galicia on Wednesday painted a red dove of peace and the words Por la Libertad! (For Liberty) on…
Gov’t to extend statute of limitations on child sex abuse
Health Minister Maria Luisa Carcedo has confirmed that the government of President Pedro Sánchez is preparing to significantly extend the statute of…
Spanish Left, feminists split on approach to prostitution
Spain’s Ministry of Labour, Immigration and Social Security has officially called for the Fiscalia government prosecutors’ office to begin legal proceedings to…
Gov’t, unions, owners agree to end coal mining this year
Spain’s government, miners’ unions and coal operators have inked a deal that will end coal mining in Spain before the new year…
Podemos, PSOE move to decriminalize insults to Crown
Spain’s Congress voted 180-160 on Tuesday to move forward with legislation proposed by the Unidos Podemos parliamentary group that if approved following…
Gov’t intends to ban groups that glorify Franco regime
The government of President Pedro Sánchez has officially confirmed it is working on reforms to the country’s 2007 Law of Historical Memory…
NGOs launch mobile app to combat discrimination
A national network of 18 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) defending the rights and promoting the inclusion of immigrants and refugees in Spain has…
Court puts brakes on bank payouts to mortgage holders
Spain’s Supreme Court has announced a special 31-judge panel will convene on 5th November to decide the fate of last week’s ruling…
Spain’s poor see no benefit from economic ‘recovery’
Two new reports issued this week show that poverty remains a chronic problem in Spain and the number of Spaniards living at…
Prosecutors eye lesser sentences for Catalan ‘Indepes’
Spanish prosecutors assigned to the nation’s Supreme Court system are sad to be considering requesting lesser sentences for leaders of Catalonia’s secessionist…
Rise of ultra ‘Vox’ party seen dividing Spain’s right wing
A reported surge in the popularity in recent weeks of Spain’s ultra-right party, Vox, was accentuated last week when the party’s second-ranking…
Franco’s remains on the table in upcoming Vatican talks
The future resting place of dictator Francisco Franco will be at the center of talks later this month at the Vatican between…
Proposed budget deal includes social spending rise
President Pedro Sánchez of the Spanish Socialist party (PSOE) and Podemos General Secretary Pablo Iglesias signed an accord Thursday for increased social…
Gender-violence judge faces possible fine over remarks
A judge presiding over gender-violence cases in Madrid is facing a possible 6,000-euro fine after having been caught on CCTV camera referring…
Report says discrimination against ‘gypsies’ persists
The most recent report on discrimination against Spain’s minority Roma community by the non-governmental Fundación Secretariado Gitano (Gypsy Secretariat Foundation) detected a…
Early Andalucia balloting to set stage for 2019 elections
Andalucian President Susana Díaz announced Monday that Spain’s southernmost region will hold early elections the first week of December, moving forward the…
New law will scrap ‘sun tax’, cut cost of electricity bills
Spain’s new minister for energy and the environment, Teresa Ribera, announced Friday that the government will introduce legislation into Congress that will…
Survivors speak out in campaign against child sex abuse
A media campaign launched last week by Save the Children España aims to shine a light on the gravity of child sexual…
Spain set to expand electric vehicle recharge stations
Spain expects to embark on an ambitious expansion of recharge stations for electric and hybrid vehicles in the coming weeks, following imminent…