Spanish News

Government To Help Shopkeepers Survive A package of financial and other types of assistance to help high-street retailers, small family-run shops and village stores, especially in rural Spain, is being prepared [...]

Spain's Population Highest-Ever Official figures are in for Spain's population as at the start of 2020 and the country has begun a new decade with its largest headcount ever before. At [...]

Valencia Students' 'Micro-Plastic Sea Filter' Wins Top Design Award A group of students at Valencia Polytechnic have won the prestigious James Dyson Award for their planet-saving invention: a buoy which filters [...]

UN Climate Change Summit – 2nd December A United Nations’ Climate Change Summit due to be held in Chile, but cancelled as a result of mass protests across the nation, will [...]

Largest Digital Library On Earth For The Blind  The biggest digital library on earth in the Spanish language adapted for the blind has just opened, with over 64,000 works accessible to [...]

Repeat General Election Announced  Spaniards will be called back to the polls for a second general election – the 4th in as many years – on November 10th after PSOE leader [...]

Collectors Pay Hundreds For Old Peseta Coins  Anyone who still has Spain’s old currency in their possession has until the end of next year to change it for its equivalent in [...]

Spanish Armed Forces Promotes Its First Female General It is over 30 years since Spain first allowed women to join its Armed Forces. Now a female soldier has been promoted to [...]

Europe Pulls Spain Out Of ‘Debt Watch’ The European Commission has scored Spain off its ‘debt monitoring’ list after concluding that the country’s deficit is now comfortably below 3% of its [...]