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Catalan MEP Clara Ponsatí detained after returning to Spain after five years

News Desk28th March 202328th March 2023

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Catalan pro-independence MEP Clara Ponsatí has been detained in Barcelona by the police since returning to Spain after over five years in self-imposed exile in Scotland and Belgium.

Spain’s competition watchdog opens disciplinary case against Google

News Desk28th March 202328th March 2023

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Spain’s competition watchdog, the ‘Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia’ (CNMC) has opened a disciplinary case against Google for alleged anti-competitive practices affecting

Hotel worker in Madrid detained for racism against Moroccan national team

News Desk28th March 202328th March 2023

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A hotel employee in Madrid has been arrested for racially insulting members of Morocco’s national football team, Spanish police said on Monday. The hotel worker

Sánchez changes tourism and health ministers ahead of Spain’s local elections

News Desk27th March 202327th March 2023

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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced two changes in his cabinet on Monday morning, ahead of the regional and municipal elections that will be held

1,500 evacuated as Spain’s wildfires start early

News Desk24th March 202327th March 2023

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Over 1,500 people have been evacuated from their homes as a major forest fire continues to rage in the Castellón province of Valencia on Friday, and

China’s Xi Jinping invites Pedro Sánchez on state visit at end of March

News Desk23rd March 202327th March 2023

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Chinese President Xi Jinping has invited Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez to Beijing for a state visit as Xi tries to galvanise support for China’s

Spain’s far-right Vox group fails in no-confidence vote against government

News Desk22nd March 202328th March 2023

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UPDATED on 22 March 2023: The Spanish Congress dismissed an attempt by the far-right Vox party to topple the government on Wednesday, voting overwhelmingly against

Supreme Court maintains misuse of funds & disobedience charges against Puigdemont

News Desk21st March 202328th March 2023

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Spain’s Supreme Court has upheld its decision to indict former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont for the crimes of misuse of public funds and disobedience. The

Guardia Civil find remains in Pyrenees, ‘possibly of French murder suspect’

News Desk20th March 202328th March 2023

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Spain’s Guardia Civil police on Monday confirmed finding skeletal remains in the Pyrenees, stating that they possibly belonged to a French father suspected of killing

Activists demand EU stops ‘green’ funds used to link ski resorts in Aragón Pyrenees

News Desk20th March 202327th March 2023

20th March 202327th March 2023413

Environmental groups in Spain have called on the European Union to open an inquiry into the approval of €26.4 million of ‘green’ economic recovery funds

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