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Spanish Court Rules Controversial Amnesty Law For Catalan Separatists Constitutional
Eight years after Catalonia’s illegal independence referendum, Spain’s Constitutional Court has approved a controversial amnesty law that could allow fugitive former Catalan regional president Carles Puigdemont and other separatists to walk free....

Spanish Court Upholds Catalan Separatist Amnesty
Spain’s Constitutional Court on Thursday upheld an amnesty law benefiting Catalan separatists involved in the failed 2017 independence attempt, delivering a significant win for Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s leftist government. The court rejected...

Spain's top court backs Amnesty Law despite huge public opposition
Date Published: 27/06/2025 Spain's Constitutional Court has delivered a landmark ruling that upholds the controversial Amnesty Law for Catalan separatists, removing the final legal barrier to its implementation and potentially reshaping the...

Hacker Leaks Personal Data of Spanish Politicians
Cybercrime , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Incident & Breach Response Hacker Posts Apparent Personal ID Number and Email of President Pedro Sánchez Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • June 27, 2025 Pedro Sánchez during a session of the Congress of...

Spain and UK Finance round-up, June 27
Finance news. Credit: Pavel Danilyuk, Pexels Trump threatens Spain SPEAKING at the NATO summit in The Hague on June 25, U.S. President Trump criticised Spain for refusing to commit to the alliance’s proposed 5 per cent of GDP defense target. He...

Ryanair gets one over the Spanish government
A ruling in favour of consumers backs Ryanair’s model of offering more choice and low fares, as more than 50 million passengers in Spain travel each year with a free bag under their seat (Free Bag). Ryanair, today (26 June) welcomed the ruling by...
Government confident Trump won’t use trade as leverage on defence
The Albanese government is confident Australia will be spared further tariff hikes if it refuses to bow to the defence spending demands of the Trump administration, despite Spain being singled out for extra punishment for holding out against a...

Deputy PM’s working trip to elevate Vietnam – Spain ties: Ambassador
Madrid (VNA) – Deputy Prime Minister Ho Duc Phoc’s upcoming attendance at the fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4) and working trip to Spain from June 30 – July 3 will mark a concrete step toward a more effective and...

Spanish premier blasts US tariffs
Spain Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez defended his decision to break with his NATO allies over increases in military spending and called President Donald Trump's tariffs on Spain "doubly unfair." "Europe and the world have been suffering from a trade...
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Booking.com deletes 4,000+ listings amid Spain’s rental crackdown
Booking.com, a major online hotel booking platform, announced on Friday that it had removed thousands of listings in Spain following a request from the country’s consumer ministry. The move comes as part of the government’s ongoing efforts to...

New tourism promo of Spain's interior clashes with lack of international flights
The Spanish government this week launched a new tourism campaign to promote some of the lesser known areas of inland Spain to foreign visitors, but recent cuts to an already small number of international flights might hinder the idea. The campaign...

AECC cancer association in Marbella celebrates 40th anniversary with charity golf tournament and annual gala
Friday, 27 June 2025, 21:00 Compartir Marbella town hall has showed its support for the Spanish cancer association (AECC) in Marbella, which will celebrate its 40th anniversary with a charity golf tournament and its grand gala dinner on the 1 and...

Spain PM calls Gaza situation ‘genocide’ as death toll rises
GAZA CITY: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has described the ongoing conflict in Gaza as a “genocide,“ marking the strongest condemnation yet by a European leader. The statement comes as rescuers report 65 people killed by Israeli forces in...

Developer ‘bitterly disappointed’ as government calls off £25bn UK-Morocco interconnector
The government has called-off £25bn plans to build a 3,800km undersea interconnector between England and Morocco, leaving the developer “bitterly disappointed”. The project, developed by Xlinks, would have seen four 3,800km, high-voltage direct...

Italy and Spain send letter to EU in fury over France 'one in, one out' migrant deal with Britain
Sir Keir Starmer's "one in, one out" migrant deal with France has sparked backlash from Italy, Spain and three other southern EU countries. The five nations, including Greece, Malta, and Cyprus, argue that the Franco-British deal will result in...

Deputy PM’s working trip to elevate Việt Nam – Spain ties: Ambassador
MADRID — Deputy Prime Minister Hồ Đức Phớc’s upcoming attendance at the fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4) and working trip to Spain from June 30 – July 3 will mark a concrete step toward a more effective and...

LEAKED: PM Orbán’s close friend, Lőrinc Mészáros’s bank, provided another large loan to the Spanish VOX party
The bank owned by Lőrinc Mészáros, the wealthiest Hungarian and a close friend of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, has granted a substantial loan to the Spanish far-right party VOX. Again. Another large loan to the Spanish VOX party This development...
Board Belgian railway postpones decision on billion-euro train deal with Spanish company
The board of Belgian railway company SNCB/NMBS has postponed the decision on the appointment of a preferred bidder for a billion-euro order for new trains. The reason for this is political nervousness about possible job losses at competitor Alstom...

Court update in Spain’s battle with airlines over controversial charges for larger bags
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Turning point: More Hungarians trust in Péter Magyar than Viktor Orbán – government change on the horizon?
Fidesz leader Viktor Orbán has long relied on his stable base, but new data suggests his overall approval is steadily declining. Over the past year, the number of Hungarians who consider him fully fit for the role of prime minister has dropped by...