Spain
Banned Basque demonstration attacked by police
By Paul Bond, August 24, 2005
Around 20 people were injured when police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to break up a demonstration in the Basque city of San Sebastian on Sunday, August 14. The demonstration was called by the Ba...
Spain: Guardia Civil beat farm labourer to death
By Vicky Short, August 22, 2005
In an August 10 letter to the Spanish authorities, Amnesty International (AI) has asked for “a full, thorough and independent investigation” into the events that led to the death of a farm...
Spain: Vatican intensifies campaign against Socialist Party government
By Paul Stuart, July 16, 2005
Spain’s Catholic Church has organised a series of demonstrations against the Socialist Party (PSOE) government’s legalization of homosexual marriage. The largest of these took place on Jun...
Household debt soars in Spain
By Keith Lee, July 12, 2005
The financial debt of Spanish households has soared, according to the Bank of Spain. Household debt rose above disposable income for the first time in 2004, up from just over half in 1997. Borrowing i...
Spain: Popular Party loses control of its heartland
By Paul Bond, July 5, 2005
Recent regional elections in the north-western province of Galicia have dealt another blow to the right-wing Popular Party (PP). In its fourth consecutive election defeat since being removed from powe...
EU budget debacle leaves Spain isolated
By Mike Ingram and Vicky Short, July 2, 2005
Spain’s Socialist Party (PSOE) government faces a grave foreign and domestic policy dilemma in the wake of the European Union’s failure to agree on a 2007-2013 budget at its June 18 summit...
Basque parliamentary negotiations strengthen regionalism
By Paul Bond, June 21, 2005
Some six weeks since the Basque regional elections, horse-trading continues over the formation of a new regional parliament. Various nationalist groups are jockeying for position within the coalition,...
Spain: National talks break down as big business demands offensive on wages
By Paul Mitchell, January 22, 2005
National wage talks in Spain have broken down as big business demands an offensive against workers’ wages and conditions. The talks have collapsed over proposals to index the minimum wage (Salar...
Spain: Popular Party seeks to destabilise Socialist Party government
By Paul Stuart, January 11, 2005
In the months since the Spanish people voted José María Aznar’s Popular Party (PP) government out of office, its leaders have sought to discredit and destabilise the Socialist Workers Party (P...
Spain: Madrid Commission confirms conspiracy of lies used to justify Iraq War
By Paul Mitchell, December 29, 2004
Evidence presented to the commission investigating the train bombings on March 11 in Madrid in which 191 people died and 1,700 others were injured confirms that a conspiracy of lies was used to justif...
Spain’s foreign minister claims Aznar government supported Venezuela coup
By Keith Lee, December 10, 2004
Spanish foreign minister Miguel Angel Moratinos has refused to retract his claims that the former Popular Party (PP) government under the leadership of Jose Maria Aznar supported the coup that tempora...
The Madrid bomb inquiry: Aznar continues his lies
By Paul Mitchell, December 4, 2004
Spain’s former prime minister José María Aznar continues to lie about the Madrid commuter train bombings on March 11, which killed 191 people and injured more than 1,700 others.
