Podemos got a "very explicit rejection" from the PSOE to exploring a progressive coalition together, Pablo Iglesias said during a group press conference on Friday: "the only frame of reference they are not going to budge from is their agreement with Ciud...

There are few studies on how many Spaniards really sleep a siesta 16 years into the 21st Century, or how often. One—organised by the Spanish Bed Association (ASOCAMA) in 2009—shed some light on the topic.

16% of Spaniards—or about 7.5 million people—said they...

Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa, winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize for Literature, appears in the Panama Papers, Spain's El Confidencial and La Sexta reported on Wednesday.

El Confidencial said it had accessed "abundant documents" in the terabytes o...

Spanish bank Santander is to cut up to 1,200 jobs in Spain by the end of the year, sources close to the negotiations told The Spain Report, some 5% of the total workforce.

Some of the cuts would be related to the closure of 450 branches the bank announced...

Oxford University told The Spain Report on Monday that no changes had been made to the plan to award Pedro Almodóvar an honorary degree on June 22 at the university's annual Encaenia ceremony, following his being named in the Panama Papers scandal alongside ...

Agustín Almodóvar, the brother of Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar, issued a statement on Monday saying he "deeply laments" the damage to his world-famous brother's public image, which he blamed on his own lack of business experience at the time.

"From t...

Spain's National Public Prosecutor's Office is to launch an investigation into the Spanish elements of the Panama Papers, in order to prosecute any possible crimes in Spanish courts, the office said in a statement e-mailed to journalists on Monday evening.
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Answering questions at the midday briefing, European Commission Chief Spokesperson Margaritis Schinas said that he saw no conflict of interest in Climate & Energy Commissioner Miguel Arias Cañete's wife, Micaela Domecq Solís-Beaumont, being involved in a com...

Consumer confidence in Spain has plummeted from record highs prior to the general election on December 20, after more than three months of political uncertainty and an inability to form a new government.

The numbers continued their decline in March, the c...

58,216 fewer people were registered as unemployed in Spain at the end of March, a fall of 1.4%, the Employment Ministry reported in its latest data set, leaving the total at 4.094 million Spaniards.

The seasonally-adjusted figure was slightly lower, at 45,466...

A new Sigma Dos poll for El Mundo published on Sunday evening suggests the combined results of the Popular Party and Ciudadanos might be enough for a right-wing coalition after a new general election in June.

This is the third poll this weekend to show a larg...

The long-time chairman of Telefónica, 70 year old César Alierta, has stepped down as the group's Executive Chairman after nearly 16 years in the position, the company announced in a statement on Tuesday.

Mr. Alierta will propose the current CEO, José Marí...

The Spanish suggestion of naming a new Royal Research Ship after a Spanish admiral, Blas de Lezo—who bested the Royal Navy at Cartagena de las Indias in 1741—has been deleted from the website, a spokeswoman for the UK's Natural Environment Research Council (NERC...

Attempts by political parties in the northern Spanish region of Navarra to issue a joint statement condemning the terror attacks in Brussels were frustrated after left-wing parties refused to sign because of references to Spanish and EU flags in the wording ...

A far-right group called Hogar Social Madrid Ramiro Ledesma (Ramiro Ledesma Madrid Social Home) set off flares and hung a banner on a bridge over Madrid's main M30 motorway, opposite the Spanish capital's main mosque, known as the "M30 mosque".

The ba...

Spanish Prime Minsiter Mariano Rajoy made a statement on the terror attacks in Brussels on Tuesday evening during a visit to the town of Ayamonte (Andalusia), saying it was "a sad day for all decent human beings, which is to say most people", expressing the ...

Spanish Foreign Secretary José Manuel García Margallo said during a radio interview with Cadena COPE on Tuesday that he thought the Islamic State (DAESH) was responsible for the attacks this morning in Brussels.

• "Let's stop pretending, let's worry a...

67 flights to Brussels from different Spanish airports have been affected by the terrorist attacks this morning, a spokeswoman for Spanish airport operator AENA told The Spain Report.

Nine had already left when the attacks happened. One flight from Barcelona ...

Despite demonstrating an ongoing inability to agree on anything approaching a new government, more than three months after Spain's inconclusive general election, the Speaker's Committee and parliamentary spokespersons decided last week **to award themselves an e...

The 13 young women who died in the coach crash in Freginals (Catalonia) on Sunday were from six different countries, the regional interior minister Jordi Jané said on Monday morning. **Seven were from Italy, two from Germany, and one each from Romania, Austria, ...

Three months after an inconclusive general election, once more dispelling the rumours, gossip and speculation, and having refused to accept the King's first invitation to try to form a new Spanish government, Popular Party leader Mariano Rajoy vowed at the e...

Pablo Iglesias announced a "new era" in Podemos during a press conference on Friday evening, and named Pablo Echenique as the party's new Organisation Secretary, after sacking Sergio Pascual late on [Tuesday evening][1]. Mr. Echenique, the Podemos regional l...

The chairman of the Spanish Congress's Defence Commission, José María Barreda, announced shortly after 10 a.m. on Thursday morning that Defence Minister Pedro Morenés had not appeared before the parliamentary commission as he had been asked to do so to expla...

After debating the unity of Spain with reference to the question of Catalan independence on Tuesday evening, the Spanish Congress voted 147-79, with 101 abstentions, in favour of the PP's six-point motion, centred on "the unity of Spain", and 131-95, with 11...

Podemos announced in a statement that it had sacked Sergio Pascual, the party's Coordination Council Organisation Secretary, late on Tuesday night, citing "deficient management": "We are grateful for the good work carried out but events lately are proof of d...

PSV Eindhoven fans in Madrid for the match against Atlético Madrid on Tuesday night were filmed throwing coins and jeering loudly at beggar women in the Spanish capital's Plaza Mayor this afternoon. The mostly male Dutch fans, sitting on one of the central s...

Several Spanish journalists were arrested by police in Macedonia on Monday after following a refugee march to cross a river near the village of Idomeni, media outlets reported. Alberto Sicilia who writes for Público and reports for La Sexta TV, Mikel Konate, Mar...

A new Metroscopia poll [published][1] by El País on Sunday shows Spaniards are still split four-ways along broadly similar lines as they were at the general election on December 20. The Popular Party still leads, but with nearly a three point decline since t...

In a internal letter to members, Podemos number two Iñigo Errejón suggested the Spanish Socialist Party (PSOE) was behind a media onslaught against his party after ten members of the its regional citizens' council in Madrid resigned this week, citing an abse...

A new GESOP poll published by [El Periódico][1] on Friday shows a shift of around 20 seats on the right of Spanish politics, away from the Popular Party and towards Ciudadanos, and a smaller shift of nine or ten seats on the left, from Podemos towards United Lef...