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Politics

CORONAVIRUS CRISIS

Spain’s PM says €140bn in EU funds will deliver greatest economic transformation since the 1980s

Carlos E. Cué|Madrid | 13-04-2021 - 16:02 UTC

Pedro Sánchez has unveiled the guidelines of a spending plan meant to pull the country out of the crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic and help effect structural reforms

CORONAVIRUS

Spanish government resists pressure to extend state of alarm

Mikel Ormazabal/Carlos E. Cué|San Sebastián | 13-04-2021 - 09:45 UTC

The Basque Country wants the extraordinary measure to remain in place as it tackles a surge in coronavirus cases, but the executive is counting on the Covid-19 vaccination drive to flatten the curve

CORONAVIRUS

What happens when the state of alarm in Spain expires on May 9?

Reyes Rincón|Madrid | 07-04-2021 - 08:31 UTC

According to the central government and several experts, the regions will need legal backing to introduce coronavirus restrictions on movement

CORONAVIRUS

Spanish prime minister: 33m people will be vaccinated by end of August

Carlos E. Cué/El País|Madrid | 06-04-2021 - 14:11 UTC

Pedro Sánchez sought to convey a note of optimism during a press conference on Tuesday, setting a series of targets for the upcoming months of the Covid-19 vaccination campaign

Spain under Franco

Spanish government begins reform of Franco-era Official Secrets Law

Miguel González|Madrid | 05-04-2021 - 13:00 UTC

The biggest anachronism of the current legislation lies in the fact that it includes no time frames for secrecy to expire

SPANISH POLITICS

Spain’s social media provocateurs gear up for digital war ahead of Madrid election

Fernando Peinado|Madrid | 25-03-2021 - 08:06 UTC

Twitter personality Luis “Alvise” Pérez discusses the importance of high-impact campaign messages, and how the political right is now ready to take on the savvier left in the new media ecosystem

Covid-19 | One year on

‘Stop everything that has to be stopped’: The inside story of Spain’s coronavirus state of alarm

Claudi Pérez/Carlos E. Cué|Madrid | 18-03-2021 - 08:38 UTC

EL PAÍS chronicles the days running up to the spring lockdown and what came after in an era that some ministers describe as the worst of their lives

EDITORIAL

Spain’s populist drift

El País | 16-03-2021 - 12:12 UTC

A snap election in Madrid and political developments in Catalonia will only serve to exacerbate a policy of extremes

SPANISH POLITICS

Deputy PM Pablo Iglesias makes surprise move to run in the Madrid regional elections

Carlos E. Cué/Anabel Díez/Inés Santaeulalia/Javier Casqueiro/El País|Madrid | 15-03-2021 - 12:28 UTC

A regional power play that began last week in Murcia is shaking up Spanish politics, pushing the Unidas Podemos leader to quit his role in the central government

POLITICS

Madrid region faces early election after infighting triggers political earthquake

Juan José Mateo/Manuel Viejo/Carlos E. Cué/El País|Madrid | 10-03-2021 - 13:39 UTC

When Ciudadanos turned on the Popular Party in southeastern Murcia, it was not expecting a chain reaction spreading all the way to Andalusia and Castilla y León

CATALAN INDEPENDENCE BID

Spain’s Supreme Court looks to secure ex-Catalan premier Carles Puigdemont’s extradition

Reyes Rincón/Jesús García|Madrid / Barcelona | 10-03-2021 - 12:17 UTC

Judge Pablo Llarena has asked for a preliminary ruling from the EU Court of Justice on how the case should be interpreted by law

CATALONIA

European Parliament strips former Catalan premier Carles Puigdemont of immunity

Guillermo Abril|Brussels | 09-03-2021 - 08:46 UTC

The decision means that Spanish authorities will be able to reactivate the arrest warrant to bring the politician back to the country and put him on trial for his involvement in the 2017 separatist bid

ECONOMY & BUSINESS

Spanish government announces €11bn support package for hospitality, tourism sectors

Xosé Hermida/Antonio Maqueda|Madrid | 24-02-2021 - 14:08 UTC

The measure is aimed at helping ‘companies, small and medium-sized enterprises and self-employed workers’ who have been hit by the economic fallout of the coronavirus crisis

40 years since coup attempt in Spain

Spain’s King Felipe VI pays tribute to Juan Carlos I for role in foiling 1981 coup attempt

Miguel González/El País|Madrid | 23-02-2021 - 16:51 UTC

On the 40th anniversary of the day that Congress was stormed by the Civil Guard, the reigning monarch said his father’s actions were ‘decisive for the defense and triumph of democracy’

SPANISH GOVERNMENT

Spain’s governing coalition partners: ‘It can’t go on like this’

Carlos E. Cué|Madrid | 22-02-2021 - 11:23 UTC

The executive is caught up in a spiral of internal strife just as the opposition is at its weakest. A minority group within the Socialist Party supports pushing out Unidas Podemos, but PM Pedro Sánchez is ruling it out

Pablo Hasél case

Violent protests erupt in Madrid and Catalonia over rapper’s arrest

Miguel Cantón/Alfonso L. Congostrina/Rebeca Carranco/Josep Catà Figuls|Madrid / Barcelona | 18-02-2021 - 11:12 UTC

Supporters of Pablo Hasél, who has begun serving a nine-month sentence for praising terrorism and insulting the monarchy, clashed with riot police while framing their acts as a defense of freedom of speech

SPANISH POLITICS

Ex-Madrid premier Cristina Cifuentes acquitted of wrongdoing in master’s degree scandal

J. J. Gálvez/El País|Madrid | 16-02-2021 - 09:15 UTC

The regional high court found no conclusive evidence that the former Popular Party politician ordered the forgery of university documents

EDITORIAL

Election results in Catalonia: a wide-open scenario

El País | 15-02-2021 - 12:43 UTC

The Catalan Socialists attracted the most votes on Sunday while the pro-independence bloc collectively secured a majority of seats

CATALONIA

‘Zombie hour’ at the Catalan elections: when coronavirus cases came out to vote

Iñigo Domínguez|Barcelona | 15-02-2021 - 09:52 UTC

People who had tested positive for the virus or who were in quarantine were advised to cast their ballot between 7pm and 8pm, but in the end few decided to make the trip

CATALONIA

Separatist parties win most seats in Catalan election, but Socialists secure the highest number of votes

Miquel Noguer/El País|Barcelona | 15-02-2021 - 08:06 UTC

The far-right Vox group has entered the regional parliament for the first time, winning 11 seats to become the fourth-largest political force

CATALONIA

Candidates clash in acrimonious debate ahead of Catalan regional elections

El País|Madrid | 12-02-2021 - 12:09 UTC

Pro-independence forces pledge not to negotiate with the Socialist contender Salvador Illa, who was the target of most of the attacks during the televised war of words

POLITICAL CORRUPTION

In Spain, new trial puts spotlight on Popular Party’s illegal funding scandal

J. J. Gálvez/Óscar López-Fonseca/Óscar Estaire|Madrid | 09-02-2021 - 08:54 UTC

Ex-party treasurer Luis Bárcenas, convicted in 2018 in a sweeping graft case known as Gürtel, is back on the stand and promises to make new revelations that implicate a former prime minister

CATALAN POLITICS

Spain’s far right gains ground ahead of Catalan regional election

Elsa García de Blas|Barcelona | 08-02-2021 - 13:56 UTC

Ciudadanos won the most votes at the last poll but is losing support to Vox, which has copied its hardline stance against the independence movement

POLITICAL CORRUPTION

Ex-treasurer’s revelations rattle Spain’s Popular Party ahead of illegal funding trial

José Manuel Romero/Elsa García de Blas/José Antonio Hernández/El País|Madrid | 04-02-2021 - 12:37 UTC

Luis Bárcenas has sent prosecutors a letter promising to cooperate and naming senior party officials who allegedly accepted regular payments of undeclared money

LGBTQ+ Rights

Spain’s Equality Ministry drafts law that would let citizens change official gender without medical checks

Pilar Álvarez|Madrid | 03-02-2021 - 11:12 UTC

The proposals from left-wing Unidas Podemos have been met with criticism from some women’s groups and have sparked tensions with their senior partner in the government, the Socialist Party

CATALAN POLITICS

Catalan regional election to be held on February 14, court confirms

El País|Barcelona / Madrid | 29-01-2021 - 17:08 UTC

Jailed separatist leaders walked out of prison on Friday after being granted a more open regime and may take part in campaign events

SPANISH NEWS

Madrid feminist mural saved from far right’s plans for destruction

Luis de Vega|Madrid | 27-01-2021 - 13:13 UTC

Vox city councilors wanted the work to be replaced with one related to sport, arguing that the design, which honors women such as Rosa Parks and Nina Simone, contained a “political message”

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