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A meeting between Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and the head of the conservative Popular Party (PP), Pablo Casado, concluded yesterday with no agreements. The goverment said that “the PP has not changed its position on anything, despite its responsibility as the main opposition party, and is still adopting a strategy of deadlock.” Sánchez was voted back into power in January, the (PSOE) Socialist Party politician won both the April 2019 […]

National Police have arrested the parents of a 22-month-old baby girl on the Costa Blanca for child neglect after the toddler was admitted to hospital in serious condition for cannabis poisoning. The child had been taken to Villajoyosa Hospital by her parents after she fell unconscious at home. She was then transferred to the Pediatric ICU of Alicante Hospital.

The Supreme Court has ruled that the management company first contracted to build Corvera Airport, must repay €183 million of a government bank loan. Aeromur, who were awarded the contract as far back as 2007, must now repay the debt that had accumulated after years of delays in the construction of San Javier's airport replacement, despite being bankrupt. AENA took over the project in 2017, and the facility opened in […]

The Spanish government and the World Health Organization (WHO) have questioned the decision to cancel the Mobile World Congress (MWC), the leading mobile phone innovation trade show, that was due to take place in Barcelona later this month. Health Minister Salvador Illa said there was no public health reason to prevent holding this type of event. The show’s organizer, the industry association GSMA, officially cancelled the MWC on Thursday after […]

Spanish farmers staged a fresh demonstration on Friday in protest at the low prices of their produce. They cut off roads with their tractors in a number of parts of the country in a repeat of industrial action they have been taking since the end of January. In Valencia, hundreds of farmers’ vehicles blocked the city’s center, along a route that ended at the doors of the central government’s delegation. […]