Month: January 2020

Two of the nine Catalan separatist leaders jailed in Spain last year over a failed 2017 independence bid will soon be granted a 48-hour release from prison. Spain’s Supreme Court sentenced Jordi Sanchez and Jordi Cuixart to nine years each behind bars in October after convicting them of sedition over their role in organising a banned secession referendum in October 2017 which was followed by a short-lived declaration of independence. […]

Barcelona City Hall has officially declared a climate emergency, announcing a sweeping range of measures to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. The measures aim to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by two million tons from 1992 levels, principally by restricting traffic in the city. To achieve this goal, the local government will invest €563 million in the plan until 2025. Barcelona is the first big Spanish city to back […]

A ‘ PRETTY POWERFUL’ gota fría weather event has been predicted to hit the Costa Blanca from this Sunday, according to Alicante University’s Climatology Laboratory. The crack weather team expects a drop in temperature to hit all of Eastern Spain, with rain and snow ‘making headlines’ in various areas. A statement from the lab said an ‘anticyclone’ will hit from the Spanish peninsular and head south towards North Africa.

Spain is one of the countries with the most dangerous tap water in Europe. A major study suggests that tap water may be the cause for one in 20 cases of bladder cancer in Europe each year. Scientists from the Barcelona Institute for Global Health analysed the presence of the chemicals in the tap water in all 28 EU countries apart from Bulgaria and Romania between 2005 and 2018. Researchers […]

Catalan regional premier Quim Torra says that if the Supreme Court upholds a ruling barring him from office, and the regional parliament abides by that sentence, then elections will be called in the northeastern region. Magistrates are considering an appeal by Torra against a ruling by the Catalan regional High Court, which found him guilty of disobedience for refusing to remove pro-independence banners from public buildings during an election campaign. […]

Alicante-Elche airport was closed following the outbreak of a fire in the terminal yesterday at around 13.30. The fire started on one of the floors in the departures terminal, which forced the evacuation and closure to air traffic, both incoming and outgoing flights. Firefighters from the airport’s own facility were first onto the scene, they were subsequently joined by tenders from surrounding areas. Air traffic was finally resumed around 4 […]