Aficionados of Spanish history will likely know that the fascists won the country’s civil war in the 1930s. Socialists took over in the 1980s and 90s, from 2004 until 2011, and again in 2018 when Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party...
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The Spanish government passed a bill this week that will ban “comic” bullfighting events featuring dwarves wearing costumes, a move that disability rights groups welcomed but a few surviving performers criticized, the Associated Press reported. Groups of people with dwarfism – self-styled as “dwarf toreros” –...
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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez apologized this week to sexual assault victims for a legal loophole in landmark legislation that aimed to combat sexual violence – but has also allowed some convicted offenders to be released early and others to receive a reduced sentence, Agence...
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A Spanish court ruled this week that a divorced woman should receive about $215,000 from her ex-husband as compensation for unpaid housework during their 25-year marriage, Insider reported. The case centers on Ivana Moral, 48, who divorced her husband in 2020. When the couple married in...
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Spain passed a law this month that will allow employees to take paid “menstrual leave” from work, becoming the first European country to do so, Euronews reported. Under the new rules, women will have the right to a three-day menstrual leave of absence a month, which...
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Russia’s military intelligence agency is suspected of directing a Russia-based white supremacist group to carry out the letter bombing campaign in Spain last year, the Moscow Times reported. In late November and early December, six letter bombs were addressed to prominent government, military and diplomatic targets...
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A new Spanish environmental law will force tobacco companies to pay for the clean-up of millions of cigarette ends discarded by smokers each year, the Guardian reported Tuesday. The legislation, set to come into force this week, will also require firms to educate the public about...
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Spanish authorities stepped up security at government buildings Thursday after finding six letter bombs directed at high-profile targets, including Spain’s prime minister and the Ukrainian ambassador in Madrid, Reuters reported. Officials said initial investigations showed that the homemade devices were sent from within the country. The...
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The Spanish government presented a bill this week that aims to increase transparency in interactions involving public officials and lobbyists, including creating a register of interest groups, the Associated Press reported. The proposed law would require officials involved in any policymaking to report their meetings with...
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The Spanish government plans to introduce a temporary tax rate hike on the country’s wealthiest one percent starting next year in an effort to alleviate the impact of soaring inflation and rising costs, the Associated Press reported. Officials in the Socialist-led coalition government said the new...
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Spanish sex workers and brothel owners protested in front of the country’s parliament this week in opposition to a proposed law that would penalize the customers of prostitutes and also their enablers, such as pimps or sex club owners, the Associated Press reported. The bill, backed...
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Spanish authorities euthanized a former security guard this week, who was facing trial for wounding three people in his former workplace, a case that has put Spain’s assisted suicide law in the spotlight, the Associated Press reported Wednesday. Late defendant Eugen Sabau submitted an application for...
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The Spanish government passed a bill this week that will relax requirements for undocumented migrant laborers in an effort to bring thousands of workers into the labor force and shore up understaffed sectors such as hospitality and farming, the Associated Press reported. The new measure aims...
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Spain’s Supreme Court scrapped a rule that prevented shorter women from joining the country’s police force, ruling that the regulation was “discriminatory,” Euronews reported. The case is related to a woman, who was rejected from the force in 2017 for failing to fulfill the height requirement....
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Spain will introduce a series of temporary taxes on banks and energy companies to help people cope with soaring inflation and spiking utility costs caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Associated Press reported. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced the tax scheme and other public relief...
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The parliament of Spain’s Catalonia region passed a resolution this week accusing Israel of committing apartheid against the Palestinians, the first European legislature to do so, the Times of Israel reported. The vote came months after the region’s leftist parties proposed the draft resolution, which alleges...
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Algeria suspended a decades-old cooperation treaty with Spain this week amid a fight over the disputed territory of Western Sahara, the Local Spain reported Thursday. Algerian officials said they will suspend “the treaty of friendship, good neighborliness and co-operation” signed between the two countries in 2002....
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The Spanish government approved a bill that would overhaul the way companies handle customer service calls and eliminate long waiting times for customers, the Associated Press reported. Under the bill, companies will be ordered to reduce long hold periods on customer service calls –instead, they will...
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Spain will allow women suffering from menstrual pains to take days off work, a proposed law that will make the country the first in Europe to entitle female workers to such leave, Sky News reported. The Spanish government said the bill would give women who suffer...
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Spanish authorities found that the phones of the country’s prime minister and defense minister were both infected with the Pegasus spyware less than a month after a previous investigation found that the Israeli software was used to snoop on Catalan separatist leaders, the Guardian reported...
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