Spaniards can go to the polls again
barcelona February 14, 2019 04:32Spain has to go back to the polls after the leftist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez did not get his budget through parliament. He will announce a date for early elections tomorrow.
Spain has to go back to the polls after the leftist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez did not get his budget through parliament. He will announce a date for early elections tomorrow.
The minority government of the Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has suffered a heavy defeat in the lower house. That, as expected, rejected the budget for 2019. That can result in...
The minority government of the Spanish Social Democratic Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is about to fall. Sánchez is not expected to receive the 2019 budget by the Spanish lower house as the small...
The Spanish Social Democrat Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez thinks about early elections in mid-April. His minority government is not threatening Wednesday in a vote in the Spanish House of Representatives...
Alberto Fujimori, the former president of Peru, has been returned to prison. There he must still serve the remaining thirteen years of his imprisonment.
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has returned to Brussels from Strasbourg in connection with the vote on the Brexit deal with the EU in the British House of Commons. According to his...
The left-wing Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez wants to go down in history as the man who had former dictator Franco excavated from the monumental mausoleum in the Valley of the Fallen, at 50 kilometers...
The Spanish cabinet of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez meets in the Catalan capital of Barcelona. It is the second time that the Spanish government is meeting there and the fifteenth time since 1975 that the...
The Spanish police have, in their own words, prevented an assassination attempt against Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez. The police in Catalonia announced Thursday that the suspect is a 63-year-old man. He would have wanted to kill the 46-year-old socialist prime minister because the government has plans to move the body of former dictator Franco, who died in 1975. His remains are in a large mausoleum near Madrid.
Can you guarantee that I am still living in three months? 'A member of the gang Mara Salvatrucha asked Bishop Emiliani in the Honduran city of San Pedro Sula. He was tired of the violence and bloodshed and wanted to break with the gang.
The Spanish parliament has rejected proposals to stop arms exports to Saudi Arabia due to the alleged murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The motions were submitted by left and regional parties. The Social Democrats of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez voted against Tuesday, as did the main opposition party, the conservative PP.
Queen Sofia of Spain attended Monday the funeral of the saturday opera singer Montserrat Caballé. The farewell ceremony took place in a funeral home in the Les Corts district in Barcelona.
Catalans marched massively on Monday evening in Barcelona to underline that separatism is still alive in Catalonia. The police estimated the turnout to 180,000 people according to Spanish media. The largest banner read: 'Self-determination is a human right.'
The Cuban government wants to get more clarity next week in the corridors of the General Assembly of the United Nations by the new Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez about a state visit by King Felipe and Queen Letizia to Cuba.
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 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.
Germany supports the efforts that Spain is making to curb the flow of refugees from Morocco into Europe. Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday in Sanlúcar de Barrameda that Spain is in charge of negotiations with the North African country about possible solutions.
The German government has reached a final agreement with Spain to take back migrants more quickly. A spokeswoman for the German Interior Ministry announced on Wednesday that the negotiations have been completed.
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.
Protests along the US southern border against the harsh treatment of migrants continue, even after President Trump publicly announced that he no longer separates children from parents. 'This is a cunning sales trick,' says immigrant activist Pedro Rios in San Diego. 'The result is that children will soon be behind bars with their parents. We think that is also unacceptable. '
The Spanish Coast Guard saved 933 migrants from the Mediterranean on Friday and Saturday. The coast guard has also saved four deaths.
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.
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.
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.
In Guatemala, at least twenty-five people have died or been killed by a volcanic eruption. Another hundred people were injured, the authorities report. It is the second time this year that the Volcán de Fuego erupted.
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.
The Spanish parliament Friday, as expected, premiered Mariano Rajoy by adopting a vote of no confidence with 180 to 169 votes and one abstention. The motion was put to the vote by the socialist party PSOE after executives of Rajoy \u0026 # x27; s People's Party (PP) were sentenced to long prison sentences for corruption.