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September 28, 2022

The One-Percenters

Spain

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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September 14, 2022

Collective Punishment

Spain

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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August 25, 2022

Rights v. Justice

Spain

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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July 28, 2022

Workers, Please

Spain

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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July 21, 2022

Tall Order

Spain

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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July 14, 2022

Getting In Tune

Spain

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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June 20, 2022

Symbolic, and Loaded

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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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June 10, 2022

The Tricky Triangle

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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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June 02, 2022

Humans: 1, Bots: 0

Spain

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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May 19, 2022

A Little Relief

Spain

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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The World Briefly

May 03, 2022

Whodunit?

Spain

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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April 08, 2022

No ‘Help,’ Please

Spain

Spain approved a law this week that would criminalize the harassment or intimidation of women going for an abortion, legislation aimed at deterring anti-abortion activists who attempt to dissuade women from having the procedure, CBS News reported Thursday. The bill states that anyone trying "to impede...

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March 21, 2022

Writing on the Sand

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Algeria recalled its ambassador from Spain over the weekend in protest of Madrid’s decision to support a Moroccan autonomy plan for the disputed territory of Western Sahara, Agence France-Presse reported. On Friday, the Spanish government declared “a new stage” in its strained relations with Morocco and...

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March 04, 2022

The Return of the King

Spain

Spanish prosecutors dropped three cases against former King Juan Carlos this week, citing insufficient evidence, the statute of limitations and the monarch’s constitutional immunity, the Guardian reported Thursday. The 84-year-old royal had been embroiled in a number of damaging scandals concerning his business dealings that prompted...

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February 28, 2022

Eight Legs and Ethics

Spain

A Spanish company is planning to open the world’s first commercial octopus farm next year, raising questions among scientists over the ethics and environmental impact of such a venture, Reuters reported. The company, Nueva Pescanova, said the proposed farm is set to be built on Spain’s Canary...

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