Podemos sinks pensions reform initiative in Congress
A last-ditch effort prior to upcoming national elections in April to push through Congress reforms to Spain’s public pension system was torpedoed…
A last-ditch effort prior to upcoming national elections in April to push through Congress reforms to Spain’s public pension system was torpedoed…
► President explains why elections called, points to govt’s legislative ‘wins’ ► ► Says Catalan separatists ‘afraid of dialogue’, right-wing seeks confrontation…
President Pedro Sánchez on Friday announced he will dissolve Spain’s Congress as of 5th March to make way for new national elections…
The government of President Pedro Sánchez on Friday announced the imminent removal of the remains of former dictator Francisco Franco from the…
The Spanish government’s 2019 federal budget proposal was defeated in Congress on Wednesday by a vote of 191 to 158 with one…
Opening arguments in the Supreme Court trial of 12 Catalan secessionist leaders were completed on Wednesday, paving the way for the appearance…
Spain’s Socialist party government on Friday called off talks on Catalonia’s future with pro-independence leaders of Catalonia’s Generalitat regional leadership. The decision…
Just days before the scheduled start of the oral arguments phase in Spain’s high-profile Supreme Court trial of Catalan separatist leaders, President…
The Spanish Interior Ministry has announced it is suspending the tax-exempt status as an educational non-profit organization previously accorded ultra-Catholic group Hazte…
Spain’s Supreme Court has set the 12th of February as the long-awaited date to begin oral arguments in the trial of Catalan…
Spain will continue to be the principal entry point to Europe for migrants and refugees fleeing unstable economic conditions and violence in…
Podemos has backed away from a direct confrontation with party co-founder Íñigo Errejón, following his decision to campaign in upcoming Madrid regional…
A new municipal LGBT centre in Barcelona was attacked at the weekend by vandals who spray-painted homophobic slurs and broke windows, prompting…
Madrid’s city government has said it intends to modify an 18-year-old municipal animal protection law in order to ban circus acts using…
The minority Socialist party (PSOE) government of President Pedro Sánchez has vowed to press ahead with efforts to pass its 2019 budget,…
A new report issued by Oxfam Intermón on the occasion of the opening this week of the World Economic Forum 2019 in…
The longtime simmering feud between Podemos party co-founders Íñigo Errejón and Pablo Iglesias over electoral strategies and political alliances erupted into crisis…
Spain has been given high marks in the annual global democracy index released earlier this month by The Economist, placing 19th out…
Spanish President Pedro Sánchez warned Catalan nationalist parties in Congress on Wednesday that his government will not tolerate any violation of Spain’s…
The Catholic church’s Cáritas relief agency in Barcelona revealed Wednesday that nearly 950,000 people, representing 36 percent of the residents of 27…
After 90 candidates failed to show the sufficient backing required by Podemos to stand as the party’s presidential candidate in general elections anticipated for next…
This year is shaping up to be the worst in recent memory for evictions of renters and homeowners across Spain, according to…
Activists from Greenpeace España unfurled a giant banner from Madrid’s Arco del Triunfo Monday on the occasion of international Human Rights Day,…
While the poor showing of the governing Socialist party (PSOE) was a focus of Spanish and international news coverage of Sunday’s regional…
More than 59,000 migrants have arrived to Spain illegally by land and sea in the first 11 months of 2018, representing an…
Low voter turnout overall in Spain’s southernmost region of Andalucía combined with a favorable response to anti-immigrant and nationalist campaign rhetoric in…
Landmark twin residential towers that encroach upon the public right of way at Punta Llisera on the Bay of Benidorm in Alicante…
Draconian budget cuts initiated in 2010 and continued in successive years under the government of Catalonia’s ex-President Artur Mas appear to be…
Spain’s Federation of Food Banks (FESBAL) has put out the call for volunteers to help with this weekend’s Gran Recogida (Big Collection)…
‘!No todos somos iguales!’ (‘We are not all the same!), exclaimed former Health Minister Carmen Montón in self-defense during a September press…
With less than one week to go before crucial 2nd December elections in Spain’s southernmost region of Andalucía, voter preference polls are…