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Spanish politics

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  • Friday, 19 February, 2021
    Jail sentence for rap artist ignites Spanish free-speech protests

    Treatment of Catalan musician Hasél prompts debate over country’s penal code

  • Monday, 15 February, 2021
    Spanish centre right licks wounds after drubbing in Catalan poll

    Pro-independence camp comes out on top despite Socialists winning most single-party votes

  • Wednesday, 10 February, 2021
    Catalan separatists take leaf from Scottish nationalist playbook

    Pro-independence politicians look north for strategy ahead of Sunday’s regional polls

  • Tuesday, 26 January, 2021
    Spain’s health minister quits to run in Catalan regional elections

    Ruling Socialists take a political gamble as the country battles record number of coronavirus cases

  • Thursday, 21 January, 2021
    News in-depth
    Spanish pension reforms increase strains within coalition

    Changes form part of commitments Madrid must make in return for EU recovery funding

  • Monday, 11 January, 2021
    Spain
    Madrid grinds to a halt amid biggest snowfall for 50 years

    Spanish officials expect temperatures to plunge further and fear biggest test yet to come

  • Thursday, 17 December, 2020
    Interview
    Juan Carlos affair bolsters Spanish minister’s republican campaign

    Alberto Garzón is one of the most vocal republicans to sit in the cabinet post-civil war

  • Thursday, 3 December, 2020
    Spanish parliament passes 2021 budget

    Passage of plans to spend €27bn from EU recovery fund strengthens PM Pedro Sánchez’s hold on power

  • Monday, 30 November, 2020
    Spain set to approve budget to increase role of state and taxes

    Madrid says it will spend all of the approximately €140bn it is due to get from EU recovery fund

  • Promoted Content
  • Tuesday, 24 November, 2020
    News in-depth
    Language wars in Spain stoked by schools bill

    Removal of reference to Spanish as medium of instruction is seen by some as insidious threat to the state

  • Tuesday, 27 October, 2020
    Spain’s coalition unveils ambitious tax and spend plans

    Leftwing government wants to increase public investment to fight inequality

  • Tuesday, 27 October, 2020
    Brexit
    Spain and Gibraltar seek last-minute Brexit deal

    Keeping free movement would give British territory closer ties to EU than when it was part of bloc

  • Sunday, 25 October, 2020
    Spanish economy
    Spain plans to use €750bn EU recovery fund to boost economy

    Madrid seeks to borrow €27bn against future grants before their formal approval by Brussels

  • Thursday, 22 October, 2020
    No-confidence vote in Spanish government defeated

    Prime minister Sánchez set to capitalise on failure of move by rightwing Vox party

  • Tuesday, 13 October, 2020
    Interview
    Madrid regional chief hits out at Spanish government Covid measures

    Clash comes shortly after Isabel Díaz Ayuso and PM had agreed to work together on crisis response

  • Friday, 9 October, 2020
    Coronavirus pandemic
    Spanish high court strikes down Madrid coronavirus curbs

    Pandemic strategy in chaos as judges rule restrictions violate rights

  • Tuesday, 6 October, 2020
    News in-depth
    Spain seeks to tempt back lost nurses as it wrestles with virus

    Government aims to reverse exodus of healthcare professionals abroad to plug staffing gap

  • Wednesday, 30 September, 2020
    Spain
    Spain seeks to impose tougher virus controls on Madrid

    Attempt at national consensus fails as regional administration says it does not consider move legally valid

  • Tuesday, 29 September, 2020
    Coronavirus pandemic
    Spain to unveil new national rules for imposing coronavirus controls

    Imminent restrictions likely on virtually all of Madrid and other cities as cases rise

  • Monday, 28 September, 2020
    Spanish court bars Catalan leader from public office for 18 months

    Unanimous verdict against Quim Torra is set to bring forward elections in divided region

  • Monday, 21 September, 2020
    Spain
    Spain ready to take further action to fight Madrid’s second Covid wave

    Pedro Sánchez willing to reactivate emergency powers used during first lockdown

  • Friday, 18 September, 2020
    Coronavirus pandemic
    Madrid orders 850,000 people in capital to stay in own areas

    Strict new local quarantine rules from Monday as Spain struggles to control new coronavirus wave

  • Tuesday, 15 September, 2020
    Legislation to confront Franco era sparks heated debate in Spain

    Provisions in the draft bill include a plan to offer Spanish citizenship to the International Brigades’ descendants

  • Tuesday, 25 August, 2020
    Blame game begins in Spain as number of Covid cases rises

    Prime minister Pedro Sánchez lays down gauntlet for regional governments to deal with upsurge

  • Monday, 24 August, 2020
    Miriam González Durántez
    Royal scandal shows Spain needs a more accountable democracy

    The nation is paying a high price for the political stability it enshrined in 1978

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