Court gives OK to Basque affordable housing legislation
The regional government in Spain’s Basque Country has been given the green light by Spain’s Tribuna Constitucional (Constitutional Court) for the expropriation…
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‘Mossos’ quell protests on Catalonia vote anniversary
Catalonia’s regional Mossos d’Esquadra police force on Monday night turned back a crowd of hooded and masked protesters storming Catalonia’s regional Parlament…
Gov’t alarmed over child victims of gender violence
Spanish authorities have detected an increase in the number of attacks by male perpetators against children as a means of attacking their…
PP blocks call for apology over Nazi dive-bomb attacks
The conservative Partido Popular (PP) majority on the Justice Committee of Spain’s Senate last week quashed a motion advanced by Valencia’s regional…
Congress gives nod to cost-of-living index for pensions
The congressional committee on public pensions reform has agreed in principle an all-party accord to modify the formula for calculating public retirement…
Gov’t appeals EU court ruling on migrant expulsions
The government of Spain outlined its challenge in Strasbourg on Wednesday to an adverse ruling by the European Court of Human Rights…
Poverty and inequality persist, despite economic growth
A think-tank report on the link between inequality and social conflict in Spain has warned that increased economic polarization and social conflicts…
Court says unwanted sexual contact now equals abuse
Spain’s Tribunal Supremo (Supreme Court) has ruled that non-consensual bodily contact of a sexual nature constitutes sexual abuse and not the lesser…
Ministry opens sealed Civil War archives to researchers
A special commission of Spain’s Defense Ministry has recommended that the government open to researchers the contents of 500 boxes of sealed…
Iglesias’ bullfight referendum idea trampled in the ring
Pablo Iglesias, leader of the national leftwing Podemos party, figuratively threw his hat into the ring on Friday with the suggestion of…
Valerio warns of pensions decree if Congress deadlocks
One day after pensioners scuffled with helmeted riot police outside Spain’s Congress Wednesday, Spain’s Labour minister has threatened that the government of…
Gov’t to coordinate excavations of Civil War gravesites
The Justice Ministry’s new Director General of Historical Memory, Fernando Martínez López, announced Wednesday that the ministry has reached agreement with all…
Spaniards remain most receptive to refugees in Europe
Spaniards are the most receptive among Europeans to the arrival of refugees from war-torn countries, according to results of a recent global…
‘Misión Abolición’ protest calls for end to bullfights
Thousands of people marched through the streets of Madrid Saturday to protest against bullfighting and to draw specific attention to the cruelty…
Congress votes to remove Franco from Valley of Fallen
In an historic vote in Congress on Thursday, congressional Deputies voted 174-2 with 164 abstentions to remove the remains of former Spanish…
Legislation frees 120mn euros to fight gender violence
Political parties in Spain’s Congress voted unanimously on Thursday to approved legislation introduced by the government of President Pedro Sánchez that will…
Health Minister resigns as ‘Mastergate’ scandal spreads
Minister of Health Carmen Montón resigned her position late Tuesday, following revelations of multiple irregularities in a Master’s degree she obtained in…
Gov’t says bomb sales to Saudis ‘on hold’, not cancelled
►► UPDATE 22/10/18: Spain not stopping arms sales to Saudi Arabia over Khashoggi killing ►► UPDATE 13/09/18: Gov’t now confirms that bombs…
Proposal could ditch jail time for online hate speech
The office of the Spain’s new Attorney General, María José Segarra, has proposed a reform of the country’s Penal Code that would…
Congress votes to reinstate universal healthcare access
In a reversal of restrictions placed on healthcare access in 2012 by the conservative Partido Popular (PP) government of then-President Mariano Rajoy,…
Spain halts Saudi ‘smart bombs’ sale over Yemen war
Spain’s new Socialist government has reportedly confirmed cancellation of the sale of 9.2 million euros’ worth of laser-guided smart bombs to Saudi…
Sánchez proffers Catalan vote, but not on independence
President Pedro Sánchez marked out two red lines Monday that he said his government would not cross in the ongoing dialogue with the…
Gov’t says migrant expulsions put traffickers on notice
Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska told Spain’s Congress this week that the summary deportation of 116 migrants who stormed the perimeter fence of…
Judge withdraws Euro arrest warrant for Puigdemont
Spanish Supreme Court Judge Pablo Llarena on Thursday withdrew European arrest warrants for Catalonia’s fugitive ex-President Carles Puigdemont and five other members…
Sánchez gov’t aims to dismantle remnants of Franco era
Spanish Justice Minister Dolores Delgado on Wednesday announced an ambitious series of initiatives to be undertaken by the new administration of President…
Supreme Court orders gov’t to process asylum requests
Spain’s Tribunal Supremo (Supreme Court) has ordered the Spanish government to step up processing of asylum requests in order to comply with…
Sánchez, Torra agree to disagree, continue dialogue
Spanish President Pedro Sánchez and Catalan regional President Quim Torra held a two-and-a-half-hour meeting Monday at the Moncloa presidential residence in Madrid,…
Gov’t to expand assisted reproduction services in 2019
Spain’s new Socialist government has approved a measure that will allow single heterosexual women and lesbian couples to regain access to assisted-reproduction…
Activists protest animal cruelty at Pamplona festival
More than a hundred animal-rights activists gathered in the town square of Pamplona to protest animal cruelty at last week’s opening of…
Socialists unblock logjam over RTVE public broadcaster
Spains Socialist party (PSOE) on Wednesday cobbled together enough votes through the same alliance of parties that last month removed President Mariano…
Gov’t seeks to annul PP’s grant of nobility to Franco heir
Spain’s new Justice Minister, Dolores Delgado, said Wednesday that the Socialist government of President Pedro Sánchez is studying how it can annul…