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Spain’s Congress rejects government proposal to reduce working week to 37.5 hours in blow to PM Pedro Sanchez

PEDRO Sanchez’s fragile minority government has been dealt yet another blow after plans to reduce the working week from 40 to 37.5 hours were rejected

11 Sep, 2025 @ 12:28

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New polling shows Spain’s far-right Vox party has surged in popularity over the course of the summer

SPAIN’S far-right Vox party has reached its strongest polling figures since the 2023 general election, according to new data published by El Pais and Cadena

9 Sep, 2025 @ 11:18

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WATCH: Angry sunbathers rugby tackle migrants to the ground after dinghy makes landfall on popular beach in Spain’s Andalucia

THIS is the moment a small migrant boat made landfall in Andalucia – before those on board were tackled to the ground by angry beachgoers.

5 Aug, 2025 @ 11:58

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Project of 'Bull of Spain' Spanish Academy of Bullfighting EUROPA PRESS

Fury over Vox’s support for 300-metre bull statute triple cathedral’s height in Spain’s bullfighting capital

A ROW has broken out in northern Spain over a proposal to build a massive 300-metre-high statue of a bull. Politicians from far-right Vox in

29 Jul, 2025 @ 13:13

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UK opens vote to its left-leaning 16-year-olds – while Spain’s youth flocks to the far-right

SIXTEEN and seventeen-year-olds have been handed the right to vote in the next UK election after Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour government committed to the largest

19 Jul, 2025 @ 13:07

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Spain's PM Pedro Sanchez apologises for latest corruption scandal but won't call early elections

Spain’s PM Pedro Sanchez ‘lived off father-in-law’s gay brothels and saunas’, conservative opposition claim

PRIME minister Pedro Sanchez has been accused of profiting from a network of gay brothels allegedly run by his late father-in-law as a debate in

13 Jul, 2025 @ 12:30

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Pictured: Vox politician in Spain who was almost jailed for heinous crime he did not commit – as he takes his female accuser to court

A JUDGE in Spain has called for a woman who falsely accused a right-wing politician of sexual assault to stand trial. Carlos Huge Fernandez Roca

20 Feb, 2025 @ 15:13

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Tourist tax in Spain’s Barcelona is set to increase by over 20% from this date

TOURISTS visiting Barcelona from October 1 are set to be hit by a rise in charges after the city council agreed to increase visitor levies

23 Sep, 2024 @ 11:15

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Spain’s Pedro Sanchez is compared to dictator Franco amid row over his ‘fake news’ crackdown

PEDRO Sanchez has been likened to the fascist dictator General Franco amid a row over his controversial media transparency plan designed to crack down on

23 Sep, 2024 @ 10:50

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Watch: Vox spokesperson mocks Gibraltar and Fabian Picardo as he declares British territory ‘Spanish whether you like it or not’

A SPOKESPERSON for the far-right Vox party has mocked Gibraltar and its chief minister Fabian Picardo in a video filmed on a boat near the

16 Sep, 2024 @ 15:33

Gibraltar·Lead·Politics·Video

Chaos in Spain’s Catalunya: Police hunt exiled former leader Carles Puigdemont after speech near parliament declaring independence referendum legal

FORMER Catalan premier and fugitive from justice Carles Puigdemont returned to Spain on Thursday, seven years after he fled the country to escape arrest for

8 Aug, 2024 @ 10:56

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Santiago Apostle Day in Spain: Why and where the religious holiday is celebrated today – as centuries-old mantra is adopted by far-right movements

MILLIONS of Spaniards will enjoy a public holiday today as regions across the nation unite to celebrate the Day of Santiago Apostol. Santiago – better

25 Jul, 2024 @ 17:12

Galicia·Lead·Politics

Pedro Sanchez cancels engagements due to death of wife Begoña Gomez's father

Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez called to testify in court as part of judicial probe into wife’s business activities

THE Spanish prime minister, Pedro Sanchez, has been notified by a judge that he will have to testify as a witness in an ongoing judicial

22 Jul, 2024 @ 17:17

Crime & Law·Lead·Politics

OPINION: Dear Spain’s football team, Gibraltar is British and always be – so bin off the far-right rhetoric

WOULDN’T it be nice if Spain could celebrate a magnificent sporting success without ruining it all in the aftermath? Last year, former President of the

21 Jul, 2024 @ 16:27

Gibraltar·Lead·Opinion·Politics·Sport

Pedro Sanchez’s government faces calls from right-wing opposition to declare a ‘migration emergency’ as shocking figures reveal that one migrant dies every 45 minutes trying to reach Spain

PRIME Minister Pedro Sanchez is facing calls to declare an official state of ‘migratory emergency’ for the whole of Spain as concern over small boat

16 Jul, 2024 @ 12:55

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Spanish national football team celebrates winning UEFA Euro 2024 in Madrid

Euro 2024: Gibraltar government slams ‘offensive, discriminatory political statements’ after Spain’s victorious football team chants ‘rancid remarks’ about British Overseas Territory

THE Gibraltar government has issued a statement slamming what it described as ‘rancid chants’ about the British Overseas Territory made in public yesterday by several

16 Jul, 2024 @ 11:55

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Santiago Abascal, Vox leader. Photo by Cordon Press

Migration policy sees Spain’s far-right Vox ditch coalition agreements with conservative Partido Popular across Spain, including Valencia, the Balearics and Murcia

SPAIN’S far-right Vox party last night dropped a political bombshell, as it announced it would be walking away from its coalition governments with the conservative

12 Jul, 2024 @ 10:40

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Political chaos as far-right Vox party plans to quit regional government coalitions in Spain

THE far-right Vox party is set to scrap its regional government coalition deals with the conservative Partido Popular(PP) in a dispute over young migrants. Vox

11 Jul, 2024 @ 18:00

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Refugee Children Escape From Malaga, During The Spanish Civil War

Spain’s central government considers legal action against speaker of Balearic parliament from far-right Vox party, after he tears up picture of Civil War victim during parliamentary session

THE central Spanish government of Socialist Party Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez is considering taking legal action against Vox politician Gabriel Le Senne, who is currently

20 Jun, 2024 @ 09:00

Balearic Islands·Politics

European elections: PP narrowly triumph over Pedro Sanchez’s socialists as far-right parties surge across Europe

ALBERTO Nuñez Feijoo hailed the arrival of a new ‘political cycle’ after his conservative Partido Popular (PP) won the most seats in Sunday’s crunch European

10 Jun, 2024 @ 15:33

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European elections in Spain: All you need to know ahead of tomorrow’s crunch vote

VOTERS across the European Union (EU) will head to the polls this Sunday to decide who will represent each member state in the tenth European

8 Jun, 2024 @ 15:30

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Bullfighting latest in Spain: Children set to be allowed to attend events in Mallorca

CHILDREN are set to be allowed back into bullfights in Mallorca, as the regional parliament is due to vote on a proposal tabled by far-right

3 Jun, 2024 @ 15:23

Balearic Islands·Entertainment·Lead·Mallorca

Spain-Argentina row continues: Javier Milei brands Pedro Sanchez a ‘coward’ and refuses to apologise after calling the PM’s wife ‘corrupt’

THE ongoing diplomatic spat between Spain and Argentina deepened on Tuesday, after the Spanish government recalled its ambassador in Buenos Aires to Madrid definitively. The

21 May, 2024 @ 14:08

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Spain recalls ambassador from Buenos Aires after Argentina President Javier Milei insults Pedro Sanchez’s wife

THE Spanish government will recall its ambassador from Argentina as a diplomatic spat between the two counties deepened following comments from hard-right President Javier Milei

20 May, 2024 @ 10:17

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Argentina’s Javier Milei to visit Spain: Controversial leader will attend event hosted by far-right Vox party

ARGENTINE president Javier Milei arrived in Spain on Friday for a three-day visit which will see him take part in a European election campaign launch

17 May, 2024 @ 10:53

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Viggo Mortensen says growth of far-right in Spain and the world is ‘like a virus’: Madrid-based Lord of the Rings star, 65, brands Argentina’s Javier Milei a ‘clown’

THE Madrid-based actor Viggo Mortensen has slammed Argentina’s leader Javier Milei as a ‘clown’ and a ‘right-wing puppet manipulated by others’ as he criticised the

13 May, 2024 @ 12:00

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