Hotels to shelter gender violence, sex trafficking victims
The government’s cabinet-level Consejo de Ministros will approve today a legislative decree to increase protection during the coronavirus crisis for women and…
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COVID-19 stretching EU consensus to breaking point
► Germany, Holland and Austria insist on ‘every country for itself’ approach ► Spain, Italy balk at ESM mechanism linked to structural…
Gov’t tightens lockdown, closes all non-essential activity
? Health Ministry says intensive care units in 9 regions at or near breaking point ? Employers prohibited from sacking workers for…
Health Minister sees stabilization in contagion curve
Spanish Health Minister Salvador Illa said on Thursday that despite the recent increases in confirmed cases and deaths from coronavirus over the…
Tech innovators across Spain producing 3D respirators
A critical shortage of medical respirators in Spain during the coronavirus crisis is leading healthcare professionals across the country to make heartbreaking…
Sánchez sharply criticized, but wins lockdown extension
Spanish President Pedro Sánchez won approval from Congress in the early morning hours of Thursday for a 15-day extension of the country’s…
Judge probes gov’t for allowing 8M Women’s Day march
? 1st V-P Carmen Calvo is hospitalized, tests positive for coronavirus ? A conservative judge in Madrid has opened an investigation into…
Germans, Dutch resist Spain’s ‘coronabonds’ relief plea
On the eve of a crucial meeting of prime ministers of the European Union (EU) slated for Thursday, EU finance ministers deadlocked…
Catalonia with more new COVID-19 cases than Madrid
Catalonia surpassed the regional community of Madrid on Tuesday in the number of new cases of coronavirus, with the Department of Health…
Song becomes Spain’s anthem in fight against COVID-19
A song that first became a hit in Spain when released more than 30 years ago has gone viral through a video…
Gov’t eyes rent moratorium, minimum income relief
Spain’s Vice-President for Economic Affairs Nadia Calviño confirmed on Monday that the government is considering a temporary moratorium on residential rent payments…
Gov’t to extend Spain’s ‘state of alarm’ until 11th April
Spanish President Pedro Sánchez announced Sunday that his government will ask Congress to extend the country’s current “state of alarm” through Wednesday…
FOCUS: Why Spain’s hospitals are not better prepared
In a televised address Saturday evening on the state of Spain’s coronavirus crisis, President Pedro Sánchez made crystal clear that the primary…
Valencia to deploy 3 field hospitals in provincial capitals
The regional government of the Valencian Community has announced it has contracted a construction company specialized in deploying pre-fabricated buildings to build…
Iglesias to coordinate regional delivery of social services
Spanish Health Minister Salvador Illa and 2nd Vice-President and Social Affairs Minister Pablo Iglesias announced in a joint press conference Thursday that…
COVID-19: 200bn euros to protect workers, businesses
Spanish President Pedro Sánchez announced Tuesday afternoon that the government will mobilize 200 billion euros in an unprecedented aid package financed with…
COVID-19: Gov’t amends initial ‘State of Alarm’ decree
Spains Council of Ministers on Tuesday modified the Royal Decree governing the “state of alarm” passed at the weekend, clarifying some of…
COVID-19: Iglesias in charge of efforts to help homeless
The coalition government has placed 2nd Vice President and Minister for Social Affairs Pablo Iglesias in charge of coordinating efforts by the…
COVID-19: Gov’t seeks to aid domestic abuse victims
National and regional government authorities are taking measures to minimize the danger of increased domestic violence directed at women during the government-decreed…
Gov’t pledges ‘shock plan’, COVID-19 cases top 1,600
Spain’s coalition government has moved to implement emergency measures as part of a comprehensive “shock plan” that President Pedro Sánchez says will…
COVID-19: Madrid schools shut, hospitals under strain
Healthcare authorities in the regional community of Madrid announced late Monday the emergency closure of all schools and universities in the region…
Hundreds of thousands demand equality, end to violence
Some 300,000 supporters of women’s rights turned out Sunday to march in cities and towns across Spain on the occasion of International…