Month: December 2018

Spain’s Socialist government said Friday it would inject two billion euros ($2.3 billion) into fighting sky-high youth unemployment in a country where one in every three youngsters is out of a job. “We need our youth,” Labour Minister Magdalena Valerio told reporters, pointing out that many people in their 20s […]

A new publication has measured the number of passengers travelling by air to each EU member state, with Spain’s airports measuring high levels of growth. The EU statistics agency, Eurostat, has said that in 2017, 1.043 billion passengers travelled by air in the EU. This total has risen by seven […]

Officials make a special show of unity as the country grapples with the Catalan secession drive and political fragmentation Spain is observing Constitution Day on Thursday, which marks the 40thanniversary of the document that officialized the country’s transition to democracy following four decades of dictatorial rule by Francisco Franco. State […]

Police arrest 19 people and seize over 1,250 kg of cocaine concealed inside hollowed-out logs Spain’s Costa del Sol is once again at the center of a major drug bust. A joint raid by the Spanish Civil Guard and the Belgian police has resulted in 19 arrests, seven in Málaga […]

Protests have broken out across Spain in response to a regional High Court of Justice’s having confirmed a nine-year sentence for ‘sexual abuse’ of an 18-year-old woman and acquitted the five offenders of ‘rape’. The victim, from Madrid, was very drunk when the men – between 10 and 20 years […]

The big-match buzz in Madrid and around the country has nothing to do with Spain’s “clasico.” It’s all about Argentina’s “superclasico.” The most anticipated match of the weekend will feature Buenos Aires rivals Boca Juniors and River Plate at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium in the second leg of the final […]