InfoCircos petitions for EU-wide ban on circus animals
InfoCircos, a coalition of organizations working to stop the use of wild animals in circuses in Spain and across Europe, is going…
InfoCircos, a coalition of organizations working to stop the use of wild animals in circuses in Spain and across Europe, is going…
Spanish ornithological association SEO/Birdlife is mobilizing more than 1,000 volunteers this month to help count bird populations across Spain, part of the…
Alcalá de Henares in the Madrid regional community is slated to become the first city in Europe to provide heating to its…
Spanish Supreme Court Judge Pablo Llarena is studying an appeal to the Luxembourg-based Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), after…
Incidents of harassment, hate speech and physical assault against LGBT individuals in the regional community of Madrid grew by 34 percent in…
Political corruption charges have rattled the underpinnings of the Pacto del Botànic governing alliance in Spain’s Valencian community, with revelations that the…
The Socialist party (PSOE) in the Madrid regional assembly says it is filing a motion of censure (“no confidence”) against regional President…
Leftwing opposition parties and leading feminist associations have charged the governing Partido Popular (PP) of President Marian Rajoy with abandoning Spain’s National…
A 14-member expert panel set up by Spain’s government at the behest of Congress to advise on energy policies has issued a…
Spain’s Defensor del Pueblo ombudsman has sounded a warning to the government and Spain’s political parties that continued adherence to austerity policies…
A public prosecutor’s office in Germany on Tuesday agreed that Catalonia’s former president Carles Puigdemont should be extradited to Spain on charges…
An association of circus operators in Spain has tried to shift the blame to animal-rights activists for Monday’s death of an elephant…
The Socialist party has called on the executive committee of Spain’s Senate to investigate whether or not the Fundación Nacional Francisco Franco,…
As the country’s political parties begin to jockey for position in the run-up to next year’s European Parliament and Spanish municipal elections…
Spain’s Unión General de Trabajadores (UGT) trade-union federation has called on the the government to fully incorporate into Spain’s social security system…
The on-again, off-again saga of the Madrid municipal government’s effort to change the Franco era names of 52 streets in the Spanish…
Spain’s Proactiva Open Arms refugee rescue organization has appealed to the European Parliament over what it says is a campaign of harassment…
Spain’s national Socialist party (PSOE) responded Wednesday to a majority vote in Catalonia’s parliament symbolically proclaiming the right of any of three jailed…
The regional assembly of Extremadura has directed the regional health ministry to begin to issue new health cards to transsexuals, making the…
The number of gender violence cases recorded in Spain during the first three months of 2018 has fallen to the lowest quarterly…
The regional government of Andalucia said Tuesday said it is filing legal action and requesting a court injunction to halt natural gas…
The regional government of Cantabria has called on port authorities in Santander to halt the loading of Spanish-made armaments onto a Saudi-flagged…
A weekend survey of rank-and-file supporters of Podemos to decide whether the four-year-old anti-austerity party should modify its political branding in the…
Environmentalists in Spain warn that following winter rains and snow that increased the capture of runoff in reservoirs in some areas of…
Former Catalan President Carles Puigdemont was arrested in northern Germany on Sunday, after a Spanish Supreme Court judge re-issued European international warrants…
Spanish immigration authorities rejected two-thirds of all asylum petitions received in 2017, a year in which the number of applicants for asylum…
Pending a final decision from Spain’s Constitutional Court on the constitutionality of a 2017 law in the Balearic Islands that prohibits bulls…
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Supreme Court Justice Pablo Llarena announced Wednesday in Madrid that on Friday morning he will formalize charges ranging from misuse of public…
A series of rolling street protests by pensioners angry with the government over five straight years of miniscule rises in retirement benefits…
Representatives of the governing Partido Popular (PP) and centre-right ally Ciudadanos on the Mesa Directiva executive committee of Congress have voted to…