Shorouk Express Spain’s state weather agency Aemet has issued several alerts warning of the “extraordinary danger” posed by heavy rains and flooding as Storm Alice sweeps across Valencia, Alicante, Murcia and the Balearics. An orange weather alert is in place this Thursday October 9th in the coastal parts of the Valencia region as well as…
Shorouk Express Vox has made the battle against “climate fanaticism” a rallying cry in a bid to harvest rural votes from mainstream parties in Spain, its climate-sceptic campaigning mirroring like-minded formations across Europe. Standing by a barn brimming with hundreds of bleating sheep, Jesús del Socorro Cuevas leads the far right’s charge against “dictatorial” EU…
Shorouk Express Two month-long wildfire that burnt protected Las Médulas area finally extinguished, far-right Vox wants to repeal trans law and ‘woke ideology’, weather warning for heavy rain on the Med and more news on Wednesday October 8th. Spanish Congress postpones vote on Israel arms embargo to avoid October 7th anniversary The Spanish Congress on…
Shorouk Express Spanish authorities on Monday announced a cull of more than 120 cows infected in the country’s first outbreak of highly contagious lumpy skin disease, which has struck cattle on a farm. The outbreak was detected at a dairy farm in Girona province near the border with France, after several cows showed symptoms, the…
Shorouk Express Thousands of people marched through the streets of Barcelona and other Spanish cities on Thursday to denounce Israel’s interception of a pro-Palestinian aid flotilla bound for Gaza. Columns of demonstrators, many waving Palestinian flags, converged on the central Plaza de les Drassanes from multiple parts of Spain’s second-largest city. Protesters chanted slogans including…
Shorouk Express Spain said 21 of 49 citizens detained on a Gaza aid flotilla were due to leave Israel for home on Sunday. “We have reached an agreement with Israel that … a first group of 21 Spanish citizens will leave Tel Aviv today and arrive in Spain,” Foreign Affairs Minister Jose Manuel Albares told Spanish…
Shorouk Express With cities and towns across Spain rolling out new rubbish taxes, many councils are offering ways to reduce your bill, or not pay it at all. Spain’s rubbish tax law came into force back in April, meaning that many people across the country now have an extra expense or increased bills. The measure,…
Shorouk Express In this week’s Inside Spain, we look at why experts have deemed that April’s nationwide outage was unprecedented in Europe, and how heat-related deaths in Spain almost doubled this summer. The power surge that caused paralysing blackouts in Spain and Portugal in April was an unprecedented event in Europe and maybe the world,…
Shorouk Express A new report has revealed that 7 in 10 American tourists plan to visit Spain in the coming three years, consolidating it as the number one European destination that US nationals want to visit or move to currently. A new study has revealed that 7 in 10 American tourists are planning to visit…
Shorouk Express This article is reserved for our subscribers Manuel Cabezas grew up surrounded by olive trees. Like every other family in the Andalusian village of Lopera in southern Spain, his parents, grandparents and great-grandparents had taught him that this iconic Mediterranean crop was the most valuable investment he could make. So, with retirement in…
