New law is passed to treat animals in Spain as ‘sentient beings’
A new bill has been passed in the Spanish Congress, with a ruling that animals in Spain should be treated as ‘sentient beings’ by law....
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Spanish police unions hold protest in Madrid against plans to reform ‘gag law’
Tens of thousands of police officers from the Spanish National Police and Guardia Civil, their union representatives and supporters, marched through the centre of Madrid...
Spain passes biggest budget in its history, with help from ERC party
Spain’s 2022 Budget Bill has been approved by Congress, after a deal was struck earlier this week between the PSOE–Podemos coalition government and Catalan’s largest...
Spain’s opposition leader attends a mass for dictator Franco ‘by mistake’
Spain’s main ruling socialist party (PSOE) demanded explanations on Monday from Pablo Casado, the leader of the right-wing People’s Party (PP), the main opposition group,...
Pedro Sánchez vows to ‘abolish’ prostitution
Speaking to supporters at the end of his PSOE socialist party’s three-day congress in Valencia on Sunday, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said that prostitution ‘enslaves’ women...
Pedro Sánchez booed on Spain’s National Day, with shouts to resign
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez was booed and jeered by members of the public on Tuesday, when he arrived for Spain’s National Day parade in Madrid....
Sánchez and Aragonès resume talks, despite ‘radically different’ views
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez met with the Catalan President Pere Aragonès in Barcelona on Wednesday – at the start of resuming ‘dialogue’ between the two governments on resolving the Catalan...
Pedro Sánchez reshuffles his cabinet
Spanish socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced a reshuffle of his cabinet ministers on Saturday, for the first time since the left-wing PSOE–Podemos coalition came to...
25,000 rally in Madrid against imminent pardons for jailed Catalan leaders
Protestors and politicians gathered in the Plaza de Colón in Madrid on Sunday to rally against the proposed pardons for the jailed Catalan pro-independence leaders. The...
Pardons for jailed Catalan leaders expected soon, despite fierce opposition
With the Spanish coalition government (PSOE–Podemos) led by socialist Pedro Sánchez currently considering granting pardons to the nine jailed pro-independence Catalan leaders, Spain’s right-wing and far-right opposition...
