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One year since Europe's worst blackout in decades
7+ hour, 13+ min ago (585+ words) Cars drive along a darkened street in Orense, Galicia, northwestern Spain, amid a power outage, 28 April 2025. EPA At 12: 33 on April 28, 2025, the power systems of mainland Spain and Portugal collapsed simultaneously. Within seconds, traffic signals failed, underground trains ground to a…...
Belgium's sovereign wealth funds invests in the arms sector
3+ day, 21+ hour ago (483+ words) Belgium is making a strategic shift by investing public money into the defence industry, marking what officials describe as a "historic turning point. In an interview on RTL, Koen Van Loo, CEO of the country's sovereign wealth fund, outlined the…...
Pentagon floats suspending "terrible ally" Spain out of NATO
3+ day, 19+ hour ago (469+ words) An internal Pentagon email has outlined options for punishing NATO allies seen as insufficiently supportive during US operations in the Iran war, including the possibility of seeking Spain's suspension from the alliance. The document, first reported by Reuters on April…...
Arag'n second Spanish region in days to adopt "national priority
4+ day, 22+ hour ago (548+ words) Jorge Azc'n (PP) and Alejandro Nolasco (Vox). X Spain's People's Party (PP) and Vox have struck a coalition agreement to govern the northeastern region of Arag'n for the next four years, making it the second Spanish region in less than…...
Spanish region to apply "national priority" in welfare and housing for first time in the country
1+ week, 3+ day ago (408+ words) The coalition pact signed in Extremadura by the Partido Popular and Vox makes rootedness in Spain a condition for access to public aid....
Vox defends "national priority
6+ day, 32+ min ago (289+ words) Senator "ngel Pelayo, secretary-general Ignacio Garriga and Vox spokesman "scar Fern'ndez at the Extremadura Assembly. Vox Spain's Vox party has taken its "nationals first" welfare policy from the negotiating table to the regional assembly floor, with spokesman "scar Fern'ndez defending…...
Wife of Spanish PM risks up to 24 years in jail over alleged corruption
1+ week, 20+ hour ago (553+ words) Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez (R), and his wife Begona Gomez. EPA/ANDRES MARTINEZ CASARES The popular prosecution in the long-running investigation into Bego'a G'mez, wife of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro S'nchez, has requested a prison sentence of up to 24 years…...
Spanish Government urges prisons to facilitate regularisation requests from foreign inmates
1+ week, 18+ hour ago (444+ words) Spain is looking to naturalise criminals in jail. EPA/Daniel Gonzalez The Spanish Government has instructed prisons to actively identify foreign inmates eligible for regularisation and to assist in processing their applications. as part of the ongoing extraordinary regularisation programme…...
Top taxes, broken services: Spaniards pay the price of S'nchez's mass regularisation
1+ week, 3+ day ago (466+ words) The latest figures from the Ministry of Health show more than 850, 000 people were awaiting an operation at the end of last year, with 21. 6 per cent of patients waiting more than six months....
Spain's immigration regularisation scheme sees 13, 500 apply in first 24 hours
1+ week, 3+ day ago (232+ words) In the first 24 hours, 13, 500 online applications were received through Mercurio, the immigration case management platform," the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration announced. Most of these applications were submitted using digital certificates and were registered by lawyers, social workers…...