Spain’s spy chief sacked, following phone hacking scandal
The Spanish government sacked Paz Esteban, the director of its intelligence agency (CNI), on Tuesday, following the hacking of politicians’ mobile phones, including the devices of...
Pedro Sánchez
Permanent job contracts reach record high in Spain, following labour reform
The number of people registering as unemployed in Spain fell 2.77% in April to 3.02 million people, the lowest level since July 2019, as hirings...
Spanish PM and defence minister’s phones also targeted with spyware
The Spanish government said on Monday that the mobile phones of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and the Defence Minister Margarita Robles were infected last year with...
Spain & Portugal’s electricity cost-cutting plan gets EU approval
Spain and Portugal have succeeded in reaching an agreement with the European Commission to cut electricity prices across the Iberian Peninsula, under an exemption allowing them to separate...
Catalan government rejects spying investigation, demands resignations
The Spanish government has promised full transparency by opening an ‘internal investigation’ into allegations that 65 pro-independence Catalan politicians and activists have been the target of...
EU leaders congratulate Macron for his presidential win as a ‘win for Europe’
Emmanuel Macron’s victory on Sunday in the French Presidential Election has been warmly welcomed by EU leaders after a campaign that the pro-European centrist president...
Sánchez meets Zelensky in Kyiv, announces new arms shipment
Click here for all our reports related to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez met with the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv...
134,000 Ukrainians have now arrived in Spain, 64,000 with ‘temporary protection’
Click here for all our reports related to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Spain has now taken in 134,000 Ukrainian refugees, of whom over 64,000...
Police in Catalonia view two Russian killings as gender violence
Police in Catalonia, the Mossos d’Esquadra, have said they are treating the killings of a Russian woman and her daughter this week as a case...
Sánchez to meet Zelensky, and Spain to re-open its embassy in Kyiv ‘in a few days’
Click here for all our reports related to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Spain is planning to re-open its embassy in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv ‘in...
