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PM Sánchez moves to break deadlock with Catalan JxCat party via fast-track decree law

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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Monday unveiled a new set of initiatives designed to unblock negotiations with the Catalan pro-independence party Junts per Catalunya...

Disgraced former king defends his legacy in video ahead of memoir release

News Desk2nd December 20252nd December 2025

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Spain’s disgraced former monarch Juan Carlos I resurfaced on Monday in an unexpected video targeting younger audiences, released just days before his memoirs are due to...

Spanish army’s emergencies unit deployed to help combat African swine fever detected outside Barcelona

News Desk1st December 20251st December 2025

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Spain has sent more than 100 members of its military to assist in containing an outbreak of African swine fever detected just outside Barcelona —...

Spanish police dismantle neo-Nazi cell plotting for a ‘race war’

News Desk1st December 20251st December 2025

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Spain’s National Police said on Monday that they had dismantled a Spanish branch of ‘The Base’, a transnational neo-Nazi and white supremacist organisation classified as...

Two ‘rebel nuns’ released on bail after alleged cultural-heritage misappropriation

News Desk30th November 20251st December 2025

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Two former Spanish nuns who were expelled from the Catholic Church and later aligned themselves with a fringe sect have been detained on suspicion of...

African swine fever detected in two wild boars near Barcelona, Spain’s first cases since 1994

News Desk28th November 20251st December 2025

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Spain’s Agriculture Ministry announced on Friday that African swine fever (ASF) has been detected in two wild boars discovered dead in Cerdanyola del Vallès, on...

Flood-hit Valencia votes in new PP leader with support from far-right Vox

News Desk28th November 20251st December 2025

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Spain’s main right-wing opposition party maintained its control of the flood-ravaged Valencia region on Thursday, as its candidate was elected regional president with the backing...

Spain’s former transport minister detained without bail in corruption investigation

News Desk27th November 20252nd December 2025

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Spain’s Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the detention of Spain’s former transport minister and a top confidant of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, placing him at...

OECD warns climate change ‘increasingly threatens’ Spain’s dynamic economy

News Desk27th November 20251st December 2025

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Climate change is posing an ever-greater danger to the momentum of Spain’s high-performing economy, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) said on Wednesday,...

Aena to challenge €10 million facial-recognition fine from Spain’s data watchdog

News Desk27th November 20252nd December 2025

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Spain’s airport authority Aena has announced it will challenge in court the 10-million-euro penalty issued by Spain’s Data Protection Agency (AEPD) over its biometric boarding...

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