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“Spain Today” brings the latest news and analysis from Spain in clear, concise English. From politics and the economy to culture and society, our daily episodes—released every morning—cover key stories shaping the nation. Whether you’re an expat, language learner, or simply interested in Spain, we offer a balanced overview of current events. Stay tuned, stay informed, and stay connected! YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SpainTodayNews TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@spain.today.news Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/spaintodaynew/

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    03.62 - Spain Today: Montseny bus crash, Madrid teachers' strike, gender-violence units stretched and treatment-resistant depression

    🇪🇸 Spain Today News Summary: 26 October 20261. Bus plunges down a slope near BarcelonaAt least 83 people were injured, seven of them seriously, when a bus came off a narrow, winding road in Fogars de Montclús, in the Montseny area near Barcelona, on Sunday afternoon and fell 20 metres down a slope. 23 ambulances and two medical helicopters took part, the injured were taken to hospitals in Granollers, Girona and Barcelona, and the cause is under investigation.2. Madrid's striking teachers and the 665-million billMadrid's regional government says the 600-euro monthly pay rise demanded by striking public-school teachers would cost 665 million euros a year, and denies that its teachers are the worst paid in Spain. Instead it is offering heating, cooling and accessibility work in 75 schools from 2027 and a new decree to strengthen teachers' authority in class.3. Gender-violence protection running on the bare minimumSpain's top prosecutor for violence against women says forensic assessment units for abuse cases are still missing in some places and overloaded in others, with families waiting months for reports. Police are tracking more than 111,000 active cases, and 43 women have been killed by a partner or ex-partner so far this year.4. When antidepressants don't workOne in six Spaniards aged 15 or over shows signs of depression, according to Spain's latest national health survey. For the thousands of patients each year who don't respond to the usual treatments, brain stimulation is offering new hope, though access in public healthcare is still limited.

  2. 1d ago

    03.61 - Spain Today: Madrid pensions march, Barcelona student riots, grandchildren's law deadline and the King's cataract surgery

    🇪🇸 Spain Today News Summary: 25 October 2026 1. Thousands march in Madrid for public pensionsTens of thousands of people marched through Madrid on Saturday to defend Spain's public pension system and reject any move to privatise it: 50,000 according to the organisers, 25,000 according to the government's office in Madrid. They want pensions to rise in line with real inflation, the minimum pension to match the minimum wage and a public audit of the system. Tenants' unions joined the march, warning that rents and the cost of living are hitting older people too. 2. Barcelona student protest turns into riotsA student protest in Plaça de Catalunya, called on social media and inspired by the school protests in France, turned violent. Shops were looted, bins and café awnings were set on fire, and riot police charged to break up the groups. 3. Grandchildren's law: Supreme Court deadlineSpain's Supreme Court has given ministers until Wednesday 28 October at 15:00 to hand over the names of 163,020 people naturalised under the "grandchildren's law" whose right to vote is suspended, or face fines of 1,000 euros. The foreign ministry has reinforced its consulates; so far 31,390 files have been reviewed. 4. King Felipe VI has cataract surgeryThe King had routine surgery on a cataract in his left eye in Oviedo, right after a three-day royal visit to Asturias. In Llanes, Princess Leonor handed the Exemplary Town of Asturias award to the Santa Ana fishermen's guild, praising sustainable small-scale fishing.

  3. 2d ago

    03.60 - Spain Today: Princess of Asturias Awards gala, 8,318 holiday-flat ads removed, phishing refunds and quality of life by region

    🇪🇸 Spain Today News Summary: 24 October 20261. Princess of Asturias Awards gala in OviedoPrincess Leonor, heir to the throne, told young people to hold on to hope and enthusiasm in times of social disenchantment, extremism and a rising cost of living. Patti Smith, honoured for the arts, surprised the theatre by singing a cappella, astronaut Christina Koch spoke, and guests included Lionel Messi and Studio Ghibli.2. 8,318 holiday-flat ads ordered off two property websitesSpain's consumer ministry has told two property websites to delete 8,318 adverts for holiday flats disguised as seasonal rentals. A new decree says a seasonal rental must last at least 31 days and be justified by a reason such as study or medical treatment. About 80% of the ads are in the Madrid region, more than 6,500 in the capital. The ministry has already fined Airbnb 64 million euros.3. EU court ruling reopens phishing refund claimsThe EU's top court has ruled that falling for a phishing scam is not automatically gross negligence. Banks must refund the victim first and then prove the customer was reckless. Until now banks rejected about 85% of claims; experts say cases up to five years old can be reopened if the fraud was reported to the bank within 13 months.4. Quality of life in Spain by regionThe national statistics office says quality of life rose slightly in 2025. Navarra, La Rioja and the Basque Country score highest; the Canary Islands, Andalusia and Galicia lowest.

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    03.59 - Spain Today: 11 November general strike, multi-flat landlords' rents, chlamydia rise and Patti Smith in Oviedo

    🇪🇸 Spain Today News Summary: 23 October 2026 2. Landlords with more flats charge higher rents Spain's main employers' group, CEOE, has dropped its plan to challenge in court the general strike called by the unions for 11 November. It says businesses are paying for a protest about something that is not their responsibility, housing, and hopes the day will be peaceful, with guaranteed minimum services. The leaders of the two biggest unions, CCOO and UGT, call it an unusual strike: the main demand is affordable housing and the second is higher wages, and they say success will depend on massive evening marches more than on stopping work. 1. Spain's 11 November general strike goes ahead A study by the think tank EsadeEcPol of almost 800,000 rental homes declared to the tax agency finds that private landlords with several flats charge more than those with just one: 1.3% more for owners of two, 2% for three and 4.5% for five or more. Owners of five or more flats also raised rents the most and the fastest, and multi-property landlords accounted for 18% of the total rise in rents between 2019 and 2023. The authors propose tax breaks for landlords who keep rent increases moderate when contracts are renewed. 3. Sexually transmitted infections level off, but chlamydia keeps rising Spain's Carlos III Health Institute reports 37,467 cases of gonorrhoea and 11,879 of syphilis last year, roughly the same as the year before and still at record levels after more than two decades of growth. Chlamydia is the exception: it rose again to 44,511 cases and is now the most diagnosed STI, with the highest rate among women aged 20 to 24. Ten cases of congenital syphilis were confirmed, the joint highest since records began in 2000. 4. Princess of Asturias Awards in Oviedo Dozens of choir singers from Asturias surprised Patti Smith in Oviedo by singing "People Have the Power" with her, ahead of Friday's ceremony where she receives the Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Arctic Norway, which keeps more than 1.4 million seed samples from around the world as a backup for global agriculture, receives the award for International Cooperation.

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    03.58 - Spain Today: Ceuta migrant children, San Sebastián Blackstone flats, robotic kidney transplant and Studio Ghibli

    🇪🇸 Spain Today News Summary: 22 October 20261. Ceuta, three months after the mass crossingMore than 3,300 migrant children who arrived in Ceuta during the mass crossing from Morocco at the end of July are now in the city's protection system; only 288 have been moved to mainland Spain or reunited with family. Since 10 August, 12,705 people have returned to Morocco, most of them voluntarily, while Ceuta's president says around 15,000 migrants remain in the city. A High Court judge investigating the crossing has asked the Ministry of Defence whether Moroccan navy ships entered Spanish waters off Ceuta between 29 July and 10 August, though she says there is so far no evidence linking any such presence to the crossing.2. The Basque government buys 510 protected flats in San Sebastián from BlackstoneIn a first for Spain, the Basque government has agreed to buy 510 rent-protected flats in the Benta Berri neighbourhood of San Sebastián from Testa Homes, owned by the investment fund Blackstone, for about €100 million, €30 million of it from the national Housing Ministry. Their protected status was due to expire in November 2028; now about 1,700 people, some living there for nearly 30 years, can stay on at current rents of €600 to €1,000 a month.3. Europe's first single-incision robotic kidney transplantBarcelona's Bellvitge University Hospital has carried out Europe's first living-donor kidney transplant using a single-port robot through one seven-centimetre incision, a procedure previously done only in Cleveland in the United States. The patient, 58, received a kidney from her husband and says she is 95% recovered six weeks later; two more patients have since had the same surgery.4. Studio Ghibli in Oviedo for the Princess of Asturias AwardStudio Ghibli president Kenichi Yoda arrived in Oviedo ahead of Friday's Princess of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities. He said Hayao Miyazaki, now 85, still draws every day, that the studio keeps its commitment to hand drawing, and that he would always choose a menu made by a human chef over one made by AI.

  6. 5d ago

    03.57 - Spain Today: Storm Adam disaster zone, Catalan amnesty, depression and rent poverty

    🇪🇸 Spain Today News Summary: 21 October 20261. Storm Adam: every affected town to be declared a disaster zoneStorm Adam left four people dead, more than 2,600 evacuated and around 1,000 rescued along the coasts of Valencia and Alicante, where up to 145 municipalities were placed under confinement orders. Visiting the command post in Oliva, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said the Council of Ministers will declare all affected towns a zone seriously affected by a civil protection emergency, with funding and faster public contracting for reconstruction, and called for a national agreement on the climate emergency. The Valencian regional government announced initial direct aid of €23.5 million to repair homes, replace belongings and rehouse those who lost their homes.2. Supreme Court applies the amnesty to Junqueras, Turull, Romeva and BassaFollowing the Constitutional Court's ruling, the Supreme Court has applied the amnesty law for embezzlement to former Catalan vice-president Oriol Junqueras and former regional ministers Jordi Turull, Raül Romeva and Dolors Bassa, extinguishing their criminal liability from the 2019 independence-bid sentence, while criticising the Constitutional Court's reasoning. With their disqualification from office lifted, they can stand for election again.3. One in six Spaniards shows symptoms of depressionThe national health survey for 2025 finds that 16.2% of people aged 15 and over have depressive symptoms, 1.6 points more than in 2023. Two in three (66.2%) report a chronic illness, led by high cholesterol, high blood pressure and lower back pain, and the share rating their health as good or very good fell to 68.3%.4. One in three working renters is at the poverty line after paying rentA new Oxfam Intermón report estimates that 770,000 working renters are at the poverty line once rent is paid: in-work poverty among renters rises from 19.35% to 34.08% after rent, compared with about 10% for workers with a mortgage. Families with three or more children and non-EU migrant workers are hardest hit, with the greatest pressure in Madrid, Catalonia and Murcia.

  7. 6d ago

    03.56 - Spain Today News 20 October 2026

    🇪🇸 Spain Today News Summary: 20 October 20261. Storm Adam causes flooding and four deaths in eastern SpainStorm Adam has caused four confirmed deaths: two in Oliva (Valencia), one in Sagunto and one in Barcelona. More than 600 to 700 litres per square metre fell in parts of Valencia and Alicante, the third most intense storm in Spain's recorded history. Over 450 people were rescued by emergency services and the Military Emergencies Unit (UME), confinement orders were issued in 145 municipalities, and classes were suspended for more than 102,000 students in the Valencian Community and the Balearic Islands. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez visits the advance command post in Oliva on Tuesday, and heavy rain warnings remain active for Catalonia and the Balearic Islands.2. Unions register an 11 November general strikeMajor unions, including CCOO, UGT and CGT, have registered a 24-hour general strike for 11 November over the housing crisis and to demand wage rises of 4% to 7%. The employers' organisation CEOE says it will challenge the strike's legality, calling it politically motivated, as it falls two days before the official campaign for the 29 November general election begins. Pedro Sánchez pledged to raise the minimum wage every year if re-elected, while Alberto Núñez Feijóo presented a platform focused on economic relief for the middle class.3. Spain's richest and poorest townsAccording to 2024 INE data, Pozuelo de Alarcón (Madrid) remains Spain's wealthiest municipality with more than 2,000 inhabitants, with an average net income of €32,612 per person, followed by Matadepera (€28,607) and Boadilla del Monte (€28,382). Iznalloz (Granada) has the lowest average income at €9,153 per person. Fourteen of the 15 richest towns are in Madrid and Catalonia, while 11 of the 15 lowest-income towns are in Andalusia.4. Pogačar sets his sights on the 2027 Vuelta a EspañaAfter recovering from the collarbone fracture he suffered at the 2026 Vuelta, Tadej Pogačar says his goals for 2027 are a sixth Tour de France, regaining the world title and winning his first Vuelta a España. He returns to public action on 29 November 2026 at the BEKING charity event in Monaco.

  8. Oct 19

    03.55 - Spain Today News 19 October 2026

    🇪🇸 Spain Today News Summary: 19 October 2026Historic Tennis Triumph at the Shanghai MastersAlejandro Davidovich Fokina achieved the biggest success of his career by defeating Rafa Jódar (1-6, 7-6, 6-4) in an all-Spanish final at the Shanghai Masters. Davidovich Fokina became the first Spaniard ever to win the Shanghai tournament, climbing to 13th in the ATP rankings. Inspired by chess strategies shared with his coach Pepo Clavet, he wrote tactical phrases like "Defensa siciliana" and "Apertura española" on the court cameras after key victories.Political Battles and Pre-Election Pacts for 29 NovemberAhead of the 29 November general elections, Popular Party leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo tasked Badalona Mayor Xavier García Albiol with leading a national anti-squatting bill aiming for evictions within 48 hours. Meanwhile, left-wing parties finalized coalition agreements: the "Frente Amplio" platform, led by Ada Colau, and Podemos are running separately in most regions for the Congress, though progressive parties joined forces with the PSOE under the "Senado de Progreso" umbrella for the Senate.Severe Weather Crisis: Storm Adam Hits Eastern SpainStorm DANA Adam continues to cause severe weather instability across the Valencian Community, Catalonia and the Balearic Islands, having already claimed two lives in Cabrera de Mar and Sagunto. Red and orange weather alerts prompted school suspensions across Mallorca, Ibiza, Formentera, 15 municipalities in Alicante and 27 in Valencia. Civil protection emergency alerts (Es-Alert) urge residents in affected areas to avoid all non-essential travel and stay away from riverbeds.Princess of Asturias Awards 2026 Festivities Kick OffPreparations and 65 cultural events have begun across Asturias ahead of the 46th Princess of Asturias Awards ceremony on Friday, 23 October, at Oviedo's Teatro Campoamor. Highlights include two anniversary concerts by Patti Smith (Arts), a youth gathering with footballer Lionel Messi, and retrospectives celebrating Studio Ghibli (Communication and Humanities). Princess Leonor will also hold audiences with each laureate individually for the first time.

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“Spain Today” brings the latest news and analysis from Spain in clear, concise English. From politics and the economy to culture and society, our daily episodes—released every morning—cover key stories shaping the nation. Whether you’re an expat, language learner, or simply interested in Spain, we offer a balanced overview of current events. Stay tuned, stay informed, and stay connected! YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SpainTodayNews TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@spain.today.news Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/spaintodaynew/

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