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Sánchez rallies behind Zapatero, calls for ‘respect for the presumption of innocence’

News Desk20th May 202625th May 2026

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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has expressed his ‘full support’ for former premier José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, after Spain’s High Court formally placed the veteran...

Former Spanish PM Zapatero faces corruption probe over airline bailout

News Desk19th May 202625th May 2026

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Spain’s former prime minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero has been placed under formal investigation by Spain’s National Court over alleged influence peddling, money laundering and...

Spanish PM on former king’s memoir: ‘Not one of the books I recommend this Christmas’

News Desk10th November 202517th November 2025

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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said on Sunday that he was ‘surprised’ by certain claims made in the newly published memoirs of the exiled and...

Spanish government to publish a list of Franco-era symbols targeted for removal

News Desk22nd October 202527th October 2025

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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...

Spanish minister Teresa Ribera gets top EU role steering climate transition

News Desk17th September 202424th September 2024

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Spain’s current ecological transition minister, Teresa Ribera, was named on Tuesday as executive vice president in the next European Commission, tasked with overseeing the bloc’s...

Spain & EU pay tribute to victims of terror on 20th anniversary of Madrid train bombings

News Desk11th March 202418th March 2024

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Spain and officials from the European Union paid tribute on Monday to the 192 victims of the 11 March 2004 Madrid train bombings that marked...

Spain’s constitutional court finally rejects abortion law challenge, from 13 years ago

News Desk10th February 202316th February 2023

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Spain’s Constitutional Court on Thursday rejected a challenge lodged more than a decade ago by the right-wing People’s Party (PP) against a law allowing abortions...

More death threat letters received as Madrid elections approach

News Desk2nd May 20213rd May 2021

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Yet another threatening letter containing bullets and addressed to a Spanish politician was discovered on Wednesday – this time intercepted after security checks by Spain’s...

Spain hosts event for European Day of Remembrance of Victims of Terrorism

Catherine Howley13th March 202115th March 2021

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On Thursday, Spain hosted an event to mark European Day of Remembrance of Victims of Terrorism, also coinciding with the 17th anniversary of the train bombings...

All Spain’s regional presidents attend conference – except Quim Torra

News Desk2nd August 20208th August 2020

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The 21st Conference of Regional Presidents of Spain was held in situ in the town of San Millán de la Cogolla (La Rioja) on Friday –...

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