Spain scraps €6.8m ammunition order from Israeli company after uproar
Spain has decided to revoke an ammunition procurement deal with an Israeli defence company, following mounting pressure from the left-wing party within the socialist (POSE)...
Yolanda Díaz
Spain’s promise to EU allies to spend more on defence faces resistance at home
Spain, NATO’s lowest defence spender relative to its economy, is facing both political and public resistance as it attempts to meet European calls for increased...
Spain moves closer to reducing the work week by 2.5 hours
On Tuesday, the Spanish Cabinet approved a plan to reduce the standard work week for millions of employees by 2.5 hours, bringing it down to...
Spain to introduce shorter working week with same pay by end of 2025
Spain’s coalition government and the two largest trade unions, the UGT and CCOO, agreed on Friday to implement a shorter work week with the same...
Spain approves ‘paid climate leave’ for workers during weather emergencies
Spain’s left-leaning coalition government has approved a ‘paid climate leave’ of up to four days for workers to avoid travelling during weather emergencies, a month...
Podemos founding member, Íñigo Errejón, quits politics amid sexual assault accusations
Íñigo Errejón, one of the founders of Spain’s left-wing Podemos party, has quit politics and his post as spokesman for the Sumar left-wing umbrella group...
Two workers dead, four injured after cranes collapse at port in Gijón, Asturias
Two workers died and at least four others were injured on Thursday after two cranes collapsed in the northern port of Gijón (Asturias), emergency services...
Yolanda Díaz resigns as head of left-wing Sumar group
Yolanda Díaz, number three in Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s government, resigned on Monday as head of the government’s left-wing junior coalition partner Sumar, following a...
Spanish government seeks to block BBVA’s hostile bid for rival Sabadell
The Spanish Economy and Labour ministers said on Thursday that they opposed the hostile takeover bid launched by BBVA bank for its smaller rival Banco...
Pedro Sánchez to announce on Monday whether he will continue as Prime Minister
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said on Wednesday that he will consider resigning after the launch of a judicial investigation into accusations by a right-wing legal...
