LGBT activists land key posts in new Equality ministry
Spain’s new Equality Minister, Irene Montero of Unidas Podemos, has named two longtime LGBT activists and former presidents of the National Federation…
Spain’s new Equality Minister, Irene Montero of Unidas Podemos, has named two longtime LGBT activists and former presidents of the National Federation…
In his first act since being reconfirmed as Spain’s Interior Minister, Fernando Grande-Marlaska has initiated an anticipated shakeup of Spain’s national police…
► Spain’s first coalition cabinet since 1936 ‘Frente Popular’ government ► First time a gov’t ministerial cabinet has had four Vice-Presidencies ►…
The European Parliament announced on Friday that it was reversing its decision to decision to recognize jailed Catalan separatist leader Oriol Junqueras…
Incoming President Pedro Sánchez revealed on Thursday that the cabinet of his new progressive coalition government will be headlined by four vice-presidencies,…
Equality among the sexes will assume top-line ministerial priority in the formation of the new progressive coalition government between the Socialist party…
Women activists from Amnistía Internacional España have focused on the lack of women’s rights in Saudi Arabia in protesting the participation of…
Amid growing consumer pressure and a government push for reduction of single-use plastics so as to meet ambitious EU recycling targets for…
In one of the final interventions of the congressional debate Tuesday that saw Socialist party general secretary Pedro Sánchez re-elected to a…
Spanish wind energy producer Greenalia has brought online the first of five wind-energy parks it expects to build this year in Galicia,…
► Socialist leader wins Congress vote 167-165, with 18 abstentions ► ‘YES’ votes (167): PSOE, Unidas Podemos, PNV, Mas País, Compromís, Nueva…
Confused by the ABC’s of Spain’s political parties? That’s understandable, given that the Spanish political landscape is now more fragmented that at…
• Nueva Canarias ~ New Canaries • Nueva Canarias (New Canaries) is a is a centre-left Canarian nationalist political party founded on…
• Foro Asturias ~ Asturias Forum • Foro Asturias is a centre-right political party in Spain’s northern region of Asturias that was…
After a grueling two-day investiture debate in Spain’s Congress that lasted all of Saturday and into Sunday morning, acting President Pedro Sánchez…
After weeks of negotiations, the national executive council of the Catalan separatist party Esquerra Republicana (ERC) has approved a pact with the…
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) in Strasbourg has issued a far-reaching and unprecedented ruling that overturns a widely accepted norm as…
• Bloque Nacionalista Galego ~ Gallegan Nationalist Bloc • The Bloque Nacionalista Galego (Gallegan Nationalist Bloc, or BNG) is a left-of-centre Galician…
• Navarra Suma ~ Navarre Counts • Navarra Suma (literally, “Navarre Counts”) is a regional centre-right electoral coalition initially formed to contest…
• ¡Teruel Existe! ~ Teruel Exists! • ¡Teruel Existe! (Teruel Exists!) is a citizens movement in the province of Teruel in southern…
Acting President Pedro Sánchez announced Wednesday evening that he has accepted the request made to him by Spain’s head of state, King…
Some 300 women who gathered Monday in Santiago de Compostela’s Praza do Obradoiro to perform the global feminist anthem against gender violence…
Despite protests from Spanish peace and anti-war activists, a Saudi Arabian cargo ship was allowed to dock and onload munitions in the…
The Spanish affiliate of international development aid agency Oxfam says in a new report that the richest households in Spain pollute twice…
• Más País • More Country Más País is a centre-left political party and electoral platform created in the run-up to Spain’s…
Catalonia’s pro-independence Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (ERC) party on Monday dashed the hopes of acting President Pedro Sánchez to quickly have a…
Spain’s head of state, King Felipe VI, embarked Tuesday on a two-day marathon round of consultations with leaders of political parties represented…
Hundreds of volunteers slept out in the cold on Saturday night in Madrid as part of the global “World’s Big Sleep Out”,…
Thousands of protesters of all ages joined Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg in marching through downtown Madrid Friday to demand concrete…
A migrant-youth shelter in Madrid’s Hortaleza neighbourhood that was reviled by Spain’s ultra-right VOX party in a campaign video in the run-up…
Child-rights campaigning organization Save the Children España has said that children from poorer families in Spain are four times more likely to…