Spain’s second-largest bank has apologized after hundreds of Chinese customers accused the group of racism for freezing their bank accounts without warning. BBVA customers staged a protest outside the group’s Madrid offices on Friday, waving Chinese and Spanish flags and demanding their accounts be unlocked. The bank apologized on Saturday […]
Spain’s Socialist government is widely expected to call a snap general election after failing to get its budget through parliament. Catalan separatists rejected Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s bill after the government refused to discuss the region’s right to self-determination. They voted with the conservatives, despite their different agendas. Mr Sánchez, […]
The prosecution says that leaders of the failed independence bid employed violence, a point that the rebellion charges hinges on. A day after defense lawyers for 12 Catalan separatist leaders cast doubt on the impartiality of the Supreme Court and on the quality of Spanish democracy, prosecutors at the high-profile trial in […]
Germany received nearly three times as many applications last year and granted protection to 50% of them, according to the Spanish Refugee Support Commission. Spain received a record-breaking 54,000 requests for asylum in 2018, making it one of the five countries in Europe with the highest number of applications. But it […]
Airlines have overtaken high-speed rail for passengers travelling within Spain, according to the National Institute of Statistics (INE). Over 2018, a total of 40.2 million residents and tourists took internal flights, an increase of 10% on 2017, whilst only half as many – 21.3 million – travelled by the fast-track AVE […]
A dozen leaders of Catalonia’s failed 2017 independence bid have gone on trial in Madrid, facing charges including rebellion and sedition. If convicted, some could face up to 25 years in prison. The semi-autonomous region of Catalonia held an independence referendum on 1 October 2017, and declared its independence from […]
POLICE have now arrested 29 people between Cadiz and the Costa del Sol in one of southern Spain’s largest drug busts. Over 500 Guardia Civil officers from across the country are involved in the operation that has resulted in 36 different searches. Most police activity has focused on La Linea, where […]
The grave of Dolores Ibárruri – a Republican heroine of the Spanish Civil War and the former leader of the Communist Party, known as “La Pasionaria” (the passionflower) – and that of Pablo Iglesias Posse – the founder of the Spanish Socialist Party (PSOE) and of the General Union of […]
AECOSAN, the Spanish Agency for Food Safety and Nutrition, has issued a health warning over multiple batches of food for children after cases of salmonella were detected in Europe. It has urged the public not to consume products from infant food brands Modilac and Blemil, amid fears some samples could […]
The conservative Popular Party, center-right Ciudadanos and far-right Vox called the demonstration in response to Pedro Sánchez’s handling of the Catalan independence drive. The leaders of three of Spain’s right-wing parties managed to bring out tens of thousands of people on Sunday to Madrid’s central Colón square, to protest against Spanish […]
Guardia Civil have launched a new awareness campaign reminding people to check their change, and not to get caught out with coinage from other countries that look like Euros. The campaign reminds people to check that they are getting the right coins, taking note of both one and two euro […]
Orihuela’s refuse collection service workers have given the town hall a 20-day deadline to improve the facilities they use in the city and the coast – and buy new bin lorries. If their demands are not met then they will start an indefinite strike, they warned.
