Retail giant ‘El Corte Inglés’ in deal with Alibaba
Spain’s top department store chain El Corte Inglés on Thursday announced a collaboration with Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba. Under the deal El Corte Inglés (‘The
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Sónar’s first headliners: A$AP Rocky, Skepta, and Disclosure
The internationally renowned summertime Sónar Festival has announced its first headliners, as well as a change in dates. Among the first names for Sónar 2019 are
‘Architecture Effects’ exhibition at Bilbao Guggenheim
The Guggenheim Bilbao opens a new four-month exhibition on 5 December entitled Architecture Effects, which has been created in conjunction with the Solomon R. Guggenheim
Students, teachers, civil servants join Barcelona strike
Students, teachers, and public administration workers also took to the streets to protest in Barcelona at midday on Thursday, as medical staff in primary healthcare continued
‘Grandes del Gospel Festival’ gets going in Madrid
On 2 December, the 24th edition of the Grandes del Gospel Festival opens in Madrid’s Teatro Fernán Gómez for an event full of music and
Barcelona’s Phenomena cinema opens weekend of horror
Barcelona’s Phenomena cinema today inaugurates its Festival Phantasma IV Horror weekend, with a full programme of terror, gore and fear scheduled for the next four days.
Catalonia: the ‘electoral weapon’ in Andalusia
Unemployment, corruption and the rise of the far-right. These are some of the main topics in the Andalusian election campaign … along with the Catalan
Strikes now increase in Catalonia
University students in Catalonia went on strike on Wednesday to demand the reduction of tuition fees, thus further heating up a week already marked by
CaixaBank to prioritise digital and close 800 branches
CaixaBank has planned to close down over 800 branches out of the 4,461 now in operation in the whole of Spain by 2021, as part
China’s Xi on 3-day visit to Spain
China’s President Xi Jinping arrived in Spain on Tuesday for a business-focused state visit as Beijing, currently engaged in a trade war with the United