Spanish ministers said on Monday that a state of emergency over the coronavirus which has shut down much of the country will have to be extended beyond an initial 15-day period, and the government was also considering closing borders.more
Spain's King Felipe VI has renounced the inheritance of his scandal-hit father Juan Carlos. In a statement, the palace said that Juan Carlos, who abdicated in 2014, would also stop receiving an annual grant of €194,000 (£174,800; $217,100).more
By this afternoon, there have been 103 deaths on Covid-19 in Spain. There have been 288 infected people since the beginning of the epidemic. During the day, the number of infected people also increased significantly, from 5,900 to 7,800.more
Francisco Guerrero, 68, has the date of December 14, 2005, engraved in stone, it was the day, the bricklayer born in Barbate (Cádiz) and resident in Castellón for more than five decades won € 6.47 million on the Spanish Bonoloto.more
Britons living in Spain are confused and fearful about their post-Brexit futures "to a quite shocking extent", according to the author of a study, with poor support and communication from British and Spanish authorities mainly to blame.more
The Karine storm, raging since Sunday evening over the Iberian Peninsula, led to communication chaos in Spain and Portugal yesterday. Three people were injured.more
Real Madrid players are under a little more pressure before Sunday's 26th round of the Spanish Premier League at home with Barcelona. None of the teams participate in the King's Cup anymore, and the capital's club is close to dropping out of the Champions League.more
The health condition of tourists, including Poles, staying at the H10 Costa Adeje hotel in Tenerife is good, said spokeswoman for the Canary Islands Health Council, Veronica Maritnez.more
Two more people have been diagnosed with coronavirus Covid-19 at hotel H10 Costa Adeje Palace on Tenerife. The hotel on the Canary Island was quarantined on Tuesday after another two guests tested positive for the virus, NOS reports.more
An Italian resting at the Costa Adeje Palace Hotel in Adeje, Tenerife was diagnosed with coronavirus. Everyone in the hotel, including over 1,000 tourists, was quarantined. It is not yet known if there are Poles among them - the Polish embassy in Madrid said.more
Holidaymakers will be able to return home after all but one of the Canary Islands' airports reopened, following closures caused by an "apocalyptic" sandstorm carrying red dust from the Sahara desert.more
The Spanish media say that the last visit of French President Emmanuel Macron to Poland was an attempt to win Warsaw's sympathy and drag it towards the Paris-Berlin axis. They note that after Brexit, internal divisions in the EU are even more visible.more
The Madrid Criminal and Administrative Court (Audiencia Nacional) ruled that breaks resulting from employees leaving for coffee or a cigarette cannot be counted as working time and should be worked out.more
Spanish legislators are debating a draft bill that could see the country become the seventh in the world to decriminalise euthanasia, overcoming years of opposition from the Roman Catholic Church and conservative politicians.more
Spain on Monday rescued 119 migrants from the sea and was looking for 67 more believed to have gone missing on a boat while trying to reach European shores, the country's maritime authorities said on Monday.
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The US is advising its citizens to take precautions against sexual assault when visiting or studying in Spain, according to a security alert issued by the US Embassy in Spain.more
An Air Canada Boeing 767 with 128 passengers onboard has made an emergency landing in Madrid due to technical problems after taking off from the city's Barajas airport.more
The Spanish government, which forms the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) and the radical leftist bloc Unidas Podemos (UP), passed a bill on the legalization of euthanasia to parliament, said socialist MP Adriana Lastra.more
Several days of storm conditions in Spain have claimed at least 13 lives and left large swathes of the country flooded. Storm Gloria hit Spain last weekend and since then it has brought torrential rain, hurricane-force gales, tidal swells and snowstorms.more
Spain hit a record of tourist arrivals for the seventh year in a row, Industry and Tourism Minister Reyes Maroto said on Monday, adding that she was optimistic about 2020, but without providing any specific forecast.more
Unemployment among young people under the age of 25 is 32.7 percent in Spain and is the highest in the euro area. As Eurostat informed, this means that one out of three people actively looking for a job cannot find it.more
