Spanish News

The Spanish government has announced that it will start the process to consider a request to pardon the nine jailed Catalan pro-independence leaders from next week. The nine Catalan politicians and activists were jailed for between 9-13 years by Spain’s Supreme Court, they convicted for crimes of sedition and misuse of funds for their roles in the 2017 October independence referendum. They had been found guilty following the high-profile Catalan […]

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Three environmental groups including Greenpeace have launched a lawsuit against the Spanish government, accusing it of taking insufficient action to tackle climate change. It comes after similar action was launched by green groups elsewhere in Europe including France, Germany and the Netherlands, where the Dutch government lost a landmark case on cutting greenhouse gas emissions in 2018. The lawsuit, filed at Spain's Supreme Court, seeks a judicial order requiring the […]

The Spanish government intends to transform the Franco-era monument known as “The Valley of the Fallen” into a cemetery to hold the remains of people killed on both sides of the Spanish Civil War. The initiative is part of a draft bill proposed by the left-wing coalition government, and dubbed the “Democratic Memory Law”, which will be submitted to parliament in a few months. The bill, which was partly unveiled […]

The Spanish league has given in to what it called the "nonsense" of the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), in order to avoid "irreparable sporting damage to the clubs". It is the latest in a number of disputes between Spanish football's two governing bodies, who have been at loggerheads over scheduling for more than a year. La Liga is keen to stretch games from Fridays to Mondays to maximise television revenues […]