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Pedro Sánchez wants funding released by Brussels SPANISH Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has urged the EU to quickly approve the recovery package for member states and release funding. The bloc has put together a €750 billion war chest – partly financed by borrowing – to help the fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic crisis. The action plan is now waiting for national governments to rubberstamp the aid plans. Spain is looking […]

Traffic light system introduced THE price of electricity in Spain has skyrocketed with a leap of over 45% on a year-on-year comparison – an average consumer facing a €26 higher bill. At the most expensive rate, power will cost 32 cents per kilowatt hour – the cheapest tariff is 14 cents per kwh. However, customers will have to get used to a traffic light system as the charges are linked […]

Villa rebuilt in Mallorca ahead of 2021 series LOVE ISLAND is set to return to Spain this year after claims it was to move to the UK because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Management at makers ITV said Mallorca was still ‘home’ to the show despite the programme being cancelled last summer due to coronavirus. A teasing trailer has been released and ITV commissioner Amanda Stavri all but promised the show […]

Supreme Court recommend no pardon for Catalan 12 PRIME Minister Pedro Sánchez must decide whether to pardon Catalan rebel leaders after judges said they had seen “any evidence or sign of regret”. The Catalan 12 were jailed or fined for their roles in the region’s failed bid for independence in 2017; resulting in the politicians variously being found guilty of sedition, embezzlement, and disobedience. According to Spanish daily newspaper El […]

Takeover of German-based company on the menu SPANISH food delivery success Glovo is hungry to acquire the operations of Germany’s Delivery Hero in six eastern European countries in a €170 million deal. Glovo recognised an emerging market in the region where people are increasingly using delivery platforms to put food on their tables. The Spanish company is acquiring the foodpanda brand in Romania and Bulgaria, Donesi operating in Serbia, Montenegro, […]

UK traffic light travel system reviewed on June 7 ISLANDS could soon be on the UK government’s ‘green list’ bringing popular Spanish holiday destinations within reach of English travellers without the need to quarantine on return. The Canary Islands and Balearics could become a ‘go to’ destination from June 7 – the date of the next review of the traffic light system – Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said. Travel operators […]

Josep Almudéver with an International Brigades flag with his name on it. Photograph: Oscar Rodriguez/Asociación de Amigos de las Brigadas Internacionales (AAIB). THE man believed to be the last surviving veteran of the 35,000-strong International Brigades who volunteered to travel to Spain to fight against Franco’s fascist rebellion has died in France aged 101. Josep Eduardo Almudéver Mateu, who was born in July 1919 in Marseille to Spanish parents, lived in […]

Diplomatic crisis continues over Spanish enclaves SPANISH Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has accused Morocco of failing to protect its borders after thousands of migrants last year crossed into the north African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla last week. The migrant crisis and allegations of Moroccan security taking no action has triggered one of the biggest diplomatic spats between the two countries for years. The Spanish premier said: “Morocco needs to […]

Spanish authorities have confirmed that UK holidaymakers can visit Spain without the need to quarantine or present a negative PCR test from next Monday, May 24th.British nationals will be able to visit Spain for non-essential reasons such as holidays, but will have to factor in that Spain is currently on the UK’s amber list for travel, which requires 10 days of quarantine upon return and three PCR tests.The announcement was […]