Spanish government seeks to speed up the dissolution of Franco foundation
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced on Friday that his left-leaning coalition government will speed up efforts to seek the dissolution of the Francisco Franco...
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Spanish government to publish a list of Franco-era symbols targeted for removal
Spain’s left-leaning coalition government plans to release next month an official inventory of monuments and emblems from General Francisco Franco’s dictatorship that are to be...
Alvise Pérez launches new far-right party in Spain despite four legal cases against him
A young Spanish member of the European Parliament (MEP) with a huge online following formally launched his anti-immigration party in Spain on Sunday, marking another...
Spanish government seeks to declassify Franco-era secret files
Spain’s left-leaning coalition government led by the PSOE socialists has given the green light to a draft law that would automatically declassify confidential documents more...
Spain’s disgraced former king Juan Carlos to sue ex-lover for defamation
The disgraced former king of Spain, Juan Carlos I, aged 87 and now living in exile, is initiating legal proceedings for defamation against his former...
Events to mark 50 years since Franco’s death commence, yet his legacy still divides Spain
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez presided on Wednesday over the first in a year-long series of events to mark 50 years since the death of...
Sánchez visits Francoist mausoleum to learn about civil war exhumations
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez visited the imposing Francoist mausoleum outside Madrid on Thursday to learn about the exhumation of 160 Civil War victims, whose...
Spanish government slams Vox leader for saying Sánchez could be ‘strung up by his feet’
The Spanish government slammed the leader of the far-right Vox party Santiago Abascal on Monday over comments he made suggesting Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez would...
Court rejects investigating torture claim of trade unionist during Franco era
A court in Barcelona this week rejected a claim by a Spanish man who says he was tortured by police during the Franco dictatorship. In an...
Madrid court hears first case of allegations of Franco-era police torture
A judge in Spain heard evidence on Friday of alleged torture during the rule of the country’s late dictator Francisco Franco, in what rights groups...
