Spain is set to renounce its hostile Brexit position and threats to derail the UK’s transition deal over Gibraltar after Spanish Foreign Minister Alfonso Dastis said Spain would not turn Brexit into a “hostage-type situation”, it has been reported. Mr Dastis welcomed recent progress in Brexit talks and said Spain […]
As part of the continued security operation to prevent further terrorist attacks in Spain, Benidorm City Council has begun to test new mobile barriers that prevent vehicle access to public spaces. The trials were carried out at the Wednesday municipal market this week. Benidorm’s Councillor for Security Lorenzo Martinez said […]
A price cap of €1.60 on bottled water in Spanish airports has been reviewed, and vending machines and bars will charge no more than €1 from now on, says aviation infrastructure body AENA. It announced two-and-a-half weeks ago that in accordance with recommendations from the national ombudsman and in response […]
Average house prices increased by 4.3% in 2017 to a typical €1,532 per square metre, or around €153,200 for a large three-bedroomed apartment, according to the Quantity Surveyors’ Society (Sociedad de Tasación, or ST). Figures have just been released for the end of last year, showing that the highest increase […]
Spanish police said Thursday they had seized more than eight tonnes of hashish in two operations in the southern province of Cadiz, where drug traffickers are operating in an increasingly brazen manner that has alarmed authorities. Officers seized around 2.5 tonnes of hashish from a house in a rural area […]
Court in north of country has freed Carles Puigdemont while it continues to study extradition request from Spain over his role in independence drive. Ousted Catalan premier Carles Puigdemont was released from custody on Friday by the German authorities on €75,000 bail, while the country’s justice system continues to study a […]
It is slowly dawning that signing a trade agreement will be neither quick nor easy. WHEN pitching an idea to President Donald Trump, a fine sales technique is to tell him that Barack Obama once thought the opposite. Small wonder British Conservatives thought selling Mr Trump a swift free-trade agreement […]
Euro zone banks that have issued bonds under English law may face capital shortfalls after Britain leaves the EU, regulators in the currency bloc said as they encourage banks to switch to continental law for future contracts. The corporate bond market is one of several sectors in which a tectonic […]
Britons overwhelmingly prefer Theresa May to Jeremy Corbyn in regards to conducting Brexit negotiations on their behalf, according to the latest YouGov Brexit poll. Speaking to Bloomberg, YouGov Director of international projects Marcus Roberts said an overwhelming majority of the people surveyed in the last Brexit poll said they would not want Jeremy Corbyn to […]
World number one Rafael Nadal will play his first match since January’s Australian Open on Friday in Spain’s Davis Cup quarter-final. Nadal, 30, will face Germany’s Philipp Kohlschreiber in Valencia on the Spaniard’s favoured clay surface. The 16-time Grand Slam winner has been sidelined since retiring with a hip problem […]
POLICE have smashed down the door to the house to find the rotting body of a man who had not been seen for around three months in Spain. Neighbours of the 65-year-old man in Elche, in the province of Alicante, called in the police after they hadn’t seen him for […]
Two opposition groups want Cristina Cifuentes to resign over a case affecting a major public university in the region, and which has raised the question of corruption in her Popular Party once more. Cristina Cifuentes, the leader of the Madrid regional government, on Thursday answered new questions regarding an educational […]
