Amazon Web Services to invest €2.5bn in Spain over 10 years and create 1,300 jobs
Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com company, plans to invest €2.5 billion in Spain over the next 10 years, which will create over 1,300 jobs, the...
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Truck drivers end ‘indefinite strike’ just one day after it started
Truck drivers across Spain have ended an ‘indefinite strike’ just one day after it started, with the platform that organised it arguing that it faces...
Spain fines Italian pharmaceutical group for selling medicine at excessive price
Spain’s competition watchdog announced on Monday that it has fined Italian pharmaceutical firm Leadiant €10.2 million for selling a drug against a rare genetic disease...
Spanish truckers start new strike, yet traffic flowing ‘as normal’
Truck drivers, who brought Spain to a halt earlier this year, began a new strike on Monday as hundreds marched through the capital Madrid demanding...
Climate activists splash fake ‘blood and oil’ on exhibits at the Egyptian Museum of Barcelona
Climate activists splashed a viscous liquid representing ‘blood and oil’ over the glass case housing a replica mummy at Barcelona’s Egyptian Museum on Sunday in...
Spotlight: Barcelona International Welcome Desk has assisted users from 87 different countries in its first year
Since the ‘Barcelona International Welcome Desk’ was launched by Barcelona City Council on 22 November 2021, the service has worked non-stop to deal with requests...
At least 200,000 rally in Madrid in defence of public healthcare
At least 200,000 demonstrators rallied in Madrid on Sunday in defence of the region’s primary care, warning plans by the regional government to overhaul the...
Spain to update sedition law to become ‘aggravated public disorder’
The coalition government of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is introducing a bill to reform the criminal code by updating the offence of ‘sedition’, bringing...
Museums ‘deeply shaken’ by activists ‘severely underestimating’ fragility of art
Officials at Madrid’s Prado Museum have drawn up a declaration signed by dozens of the world’s top museums which denounces that environmental activists who attack...
First Twitter ‘fake news’ conviction in Spain sees €1,620 fine & prison sentence
A Barcelona court on Tuesday sentenced a Guardia Civil policeman to a 15 month suspended sentence in jail and a €1,620 fine for posting a video on Twitter...
