Court acquits Spanish rapper of glorifying terrorism
Spain’s Constitutional Court on Tuesday overruled the country’s Tribuna Supremo high court and acquitted the lead singer of Spanish rap-rock group Def…
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Government approves rescue package for farm sector
The government’s Consejo de Ministros executive cabinet on Tuesday used Spain’s express Decreto Ley process to approve a package of 14 measures…
Spanish Catholic women push for equality within church
Dozens of Catholic women’s groups have organized to hold rallies on Sunday March 1st in front of Spain’s principal Catholic cathedrals to…
Anti-eviction activists distressed after Iglesias meeting
Following a meeting Friday with Unidas Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias, who is 2nd Vice President for Social Affairs in Spain’s new coalition…
Major retailers jump into Spain’s booming solar market
The Spanish subsidiary of French home-improvement chain Leroy Merlin is about to have some company in Spain’s retail solar-panel market, as Ikea,…
Sexual assault law ready for Congress by Women’s Day
A dispute between the Socialist party (PSOE) and its junior governing coalition partner Unidas Podemos over how best to advance legislation to…
Oxfam backs Iglesias’ call for minimum monthly income
Oxfam Intermón, the Spanish affiliate of the UK-based international aid agency Oxfam, has called on Spain to establish a guaranteed monthly income…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…