‘Spain has raised the minimum wage by 66 percent. Sánchez has sent the message that work and dignity matter,’ said the New York mayor. ‘Immigration has made Spain strong,’ added the Spanish PM
The Venezuelan billionaire and Trump administration oil man, who is under investigation in Spain, owns a mansion and two apartments in exclusive Madrid districts that police searched over allegations of money laundering
PM Pedro Sánchez is appearing in Congress to defend that his executive has no indications that Morocco was in any way behind the sudden mass influx
The governing socialists tried to remove references to the ‘Sahrawi people’ from the bill to avoid irritating Morocco, which controls much of the former Spanish colony
The World Cup match takes on new meaning after a column in which the conservative politician said France is a team ‘without Frenchmen’
Six descendants of Spanish émigrés recount their experience as new citizens of a country that many have never been to, yet has always been a part of their identity
Over 600,000 people have received around €22.2 billion over the past 50 years in pensions and compensation, according to a report by the government’s technical commission
The administration of Pedro Sánchez, a socialist, sees vindication of its progressive policies as it grapples with the fallout of several high-profile legal probes
Benjamín León Jr underscored the ‘frustration’ felt by Trump at the fact that the Spanish government is not spending 5% of GDP on defense as agreed by NATO
A judge from Spain’s High Court has lifted the seal on the investigation he has been leading for months with the Anti-Corruption Attorney General’s Office
The cargo ship’s crew heard several explosions on December 23, 2024, before it sank in the presence of a warship sent by Russia
The presence of this religious community has grown by 30% in a decade in the Spanish capital
The ECB vice president, nearing the end of his term, advocates a gradual response to the current crisis, defends immigration, and praises Lagarde’s unifying role at the institution
Many of them seem trapped in an identity crisis. The dilemma is whether to embrace extreme positions or strive to maintain a centrist profile, like the Hungarian conservative Péter Magyar, who defeated Orbán with votes from the center and the moderate left
We made the mistake of minimizing and caricaturing the rise of authoritarianism. This far-right populism took advantage of the distrust in democracies generated by the Great Recession to infiltrate the very core of society. If we want a democratic recovery to succeed, we cannot continue to uncritically defend a system that not only led to the 2008 crisis but also failed to pursue a just way out of it
The move is meant to regularize the situation of people already living unofficially in the country, and bucks a global trend toward harsher immigration policies
Authorities in the Spanish capital support the event that will end the artist’s Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran tour, but local residents say this and other large concerts in the area create unlivable conditions
The Spanish prime minister responded to Donald Trump’s threats of a trade embargo: ‘Some will say that this is naive. What is naive is to think that violence is the solution. Or to think that blind and servile obedience is leadership’
The Modern Eco Village plans to erect 500 homes, schools and shops in a pristine mountain spot near the protected reservoir of Beniarrés, in Alicante province. The plan builds on an earlier attempt that flopped due to the 2008 financial crisis
The case of the police inspector who says her boss sexually assaulted her has created political turmoil for the leftist government of Pedro Sánchez
The recent refusal by Congress to even consider a public initiative to withdraw national cultural protection from bullfighting, aided by a conspicuous abstention by the governing Socialists, has infuriated some and delighted others
Among voters of the mainstream conservative Popular Party (PP), more people believe the dictatorship was ‘good’ than ‘bad.’ And 61% of far-right Vox voters believe the democratic system is worse or much worse than Francoism ever was
Firefighting professionals denounce their precarious working conditions and the lack of coordination within regional government operations. The blazes have now claimed three lives
EL PAÍS visits the terminals and speak with the highly vulnerable individuals, both Spanish and foreign, who are taking shelter there
While the opposition insists on keeping the power plants open beyond the scheduled timeline, the government closes ranks around renewables
Historians warn of the complexity of competing against social networks and the popularity of far-right YouTubers
Christian groups and think tanks are weaving together a network with nodes in Washington and Budapest. Meanwhile, Madrid is gaining importance as a bridge to far-right movements in Latin America
