Higher energy prices drove up Spain's European Union-harmonised 12-month inflation rate to 2.9% in January, preliminary data from the National Statistics Institute (INE) showed on Thursday.

A Spanish police chief inspector has sounded the alarm about Gibraltar passengers dodging security checks when travelling from Malaga Airport.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is launching a crusade against what he sees as the downsides of social media. The Socialist leader wants the European Union, which already leads the world in internet regulation,

Spanish package holidays were all the rage and TV shows like A Place in the Sun fuelled the dream of owning a slice of its sun-drenched southern coast.

The UK Government has issued a warning to holidaymakers heading to Spain this year as the country battles a housing crisis and anti-tourist protests in popular cities

MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said he would propose to ban purchasers from outside the European Union from buying properties, as the government seeks to curb rising housing prices, which have become an increasing source of friction.

Pedro Sanchez said the EU should put an end to anonymity of users in social-media platforms and hold their CEOs personally accountable if they fail to comply with regulations.

Spain is planning a raft of measures to address its brewing housing crisis, including an up to 100% tax on properties bought by people who are neither citizens nor residents of the European Union.

Spain will end its “golden visa ” programme this spring in a bid to address the country’s growing housing crisis. So-called “golden visas” grant residency rights to foreign citizens through investments in real estate.

Non-residents from outside the EU bought some 23,000 houses and flats in Spain in 2023. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Spain's European Union-harmonised 12-month inflation rate rose to 2.9% in January, from 2.8% in the period through December, preliminary data from the National Statistics Institute (INE) showed on Thursday.

Hundreds of Serbian university students on Thursday started an 80-kilometer (50-mile) march toward the northern city of Novi Sad, the latest endeavor in their widening protest movement over a deadly overhang collapse in November that killed 15 people.