The family of the Spanish dictator Francisco Franco (1892-1975) opposes the plan to move the remains of the general. In a statement, seven grandchildren indicate 'under no circumstance \u0026 # x27; \u0026 # x27; to cooperate with that. They will use all legal possibilities to prevent excavation, report Spanish media.
Spain wants to excavate and remove the body of former dictator Francisco Franco from his own mausoleum in the Valley of the Fallen near Madrid. That could happen soon- perhaps within two months. 'Spain can not afford symbols that divide the Spaniards,' says Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez.
The carlists, the Spanish movement that Prince Carlos, born and living in the Netherlands, regards as the rightful occupier of the Spanish throne, will remember Friday during a mass in the San Fermin de los Navarros church in Madrid on the death in August 2010 of 'king Carlos Hugo '.
The Spanish government of Social Democratic Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez will move the remains of dictator and general Francisco Franco (1892-1975). Deputy Prime Minister Carmen Calvo has announced on Friday that a decree has been issued and that the procedure has been initiated.
A rescue ship with 87 migrants on board has arrived in Spain. The vessel Open Arms arrived Thursday morning in the southern port city of Algeciras (Andalucia), reported aid organization Proactiva. The migrants, including 12 minors from Sudan and Gambia, were rescued from Libya more than a week ago.
The Spanish authorities have arrested the alleged drug lord Manuel Charlín (85). The police also arrested the son of Charlín and sixteen other suspects during a major campaign against drug trafficking in Galicia. Defendants were also arrested in other areas.
A rescue ship of aid organization Proactiva with 87 migrants on board sets sail for Spain. The Spanish rescue organization reported that on the night from Monday to Sunday on Twitter.
In collaboration with Europol, the Spanish police rolled up a gang that smuggled immigrants into the European Union. The police arrested six suspects in the Spanish Basque Country and one in Madrid, according to the police against the Spanish news agency Europa Press.
'Urgent! Please, spread this message as much as possible! 'In this way, the Spanish police asks the civilian population for help in the detection of the dangerous, escaped criminal Guillermo Fernández Bueno. 'Fernandéz is a rapist and murderer who flees from prison during a leave,' police said. He would be released in 2026.
The Spanish authorities are still struggling to save migrants trying to reach Europe via the Mediterranean. The maritime rescue service in the country reports that more than 1200 people have been taken from boats in two days.
Spanish aid workers rescued four hundred refugees from the western Mediterranean on Sunday. This means that the number of migrants picked up from the sea has risen to eleven hundred since Friday.
The Spanish Conservative Partido Popular (PP) has chosen Pablo Casado as the new leader. He succeeds ex-prime minister Mariano Rajoy who had to leave as prime minister and then also handed in the leadership of the party.
Justice in Spain does not want to have the former Catalan Prime Minister Carles Puigdemont, among others, extradited by Germany on the basis of a European arrest warrant.
This Monday the leaders of Spain and Catalonia met in an attempt to pull the Catalan crisis out of the doldrums. Last week, some of the Catalan leaders who were in prison from Madrid came to prisons in Catalonia. Among them 'the two Jordis'. Txell Bonet is the partner of Jordi Cuixart, the president of the Catalan cultural and political societies Òmnium. She says: 'We do not want a transfer, we want release!'
The Spanish police have made more than one hundred arrests in a major action against the Armenian mafia. The suspects would have dealt with, among other things, illegal cigarette smuggling, car robberies, burglaries and match fixing.
Spain wants a responsible policy with regard to migration, but does not always include boats with refugees who are refused elsewhere. 'Spain is not a rescue brigade' said the Spanish Minister of Public Works, José Luis Abalos, on Monday in an interview on TV.
France and Spain want the refugee centers that are closed in the EU. The migrants in these centers must be informed as quickly as possible whether or not their asylum application is being honored.
Spain is prepared to provide Malta with humanitarian aid for a boat sailing with more than 200 migrants on board in the vicinity of the island state. That is what a government spokeswoman in Madrid announced after the Cabinet meeting.
It is not given to everyone, but Iñaki Urdangarin, the brother-in-law of the Spanish king Felipe VI, was allowed to choose his own prison. He chose one where he is the only male inmate between 162 women.
The Spanish Coast Guard saved 933 migrants from the Mediterranean on Friday and Saturday. The coast guard has also saved four deaths.
Anyone visiting Bobbejaanland can be asked to stand on the scale. By weighing visitors to the amusement park, the theme park hopes to stay below the weight limit at the attractions concerned and to make the theme park safer.
A minister in the seven-day-old Spanish government has been discredited by publications about his conviction for tax evasion. The new Minister Máxim Huerta was sentenced 3.5 years ago because in the years 2006-2008 with a trick for more than 255,000 euro tax has been circumvented. He was a TV presenter at the time.
Iñaki Urdangarin, the brother-in-law of the Spanish king Felipe VI, has been a success in the appeal against his sentence for tax evasion and money laundering. The highest Spanish court reduced the sentence by five months to five years and ten months.
The rescue ship Aquarius, which has more than six hundred migrants on board, is allowed to moor in the Spanish city of Valencia. That is what Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announces, Spanish media reports.
More than 175,000 people went into the streets of Spain in the Basque Country on Sunday to form a human chain of more than 200 kilometers. With this action, the Basques want to express their demand for a referendum on independence.
The new Spanish Pedro Sánchez presented his ministerial team on Wednesday. It involves six men and eleven women. 'For the first time in history, a Spanish cabinet counts more than women than men \u0026 # x27; \u0026 # x27 ;, concluded the prime minister.
The Social Democrat Pedro Sánchez will present his minority cabinet on Wednesday with a technocrat from the EU headquarters Brussels, Nadia Calviño, as Minister of Finance. The 49-year-old Galician-based economist worked for years at the Spanish Ministry of Economic Affairs when she settled in Brussels in 2006 to work for the European Commission.
Spanish ex-prime minister Mariano Rajoy has also resigned as leader of the conservative People's Party (PP) after his departure as prime minister. 'This is the best for the PP, for Spain and for me,' said the 63-year-old Rajoy in an emotional speech for the board of the party.
The separatists have regained control in the regional parliament of Catalonia on Saturday with the swearing in of a new government. This puts an end to the direct domination by the Spanish government from Madrid.
Pedro Sánchez Saturday took the oath on the constitution with the Spanish king Felipe, making him officially the new Prime Minister of Spain. The 46-year-old economist and leader of the Social Democratic PSOE is the first prime minister in the history of Spain who took the oath without the presence of the Bible or a crucifix.
