Delayed Spanish Budget Impacts Regional Funding
Spain's 15 autonomous communities will receive €135.483 billion in 2025, a 0.7% increase from 2024 due to a budget delay; the government aims for €147.5 billion but faces political hurdles.
Delayed Spanish Budget Impacts Regional Funding
Spain's 15 autonomous communities will receive €135.483 billion in 2025, a 0.7% increase from 2024 due to a budget delay; the government aims for €147.5 billion but faces political hurdles.
Progress
32% Bias Score
Spain Proposes 100% Tax on Non-EU Property Purchases to Curb Housing Crisis
Spain plans to impose a tax of up to 100% on real estate bought by non-EU residents to tackle its housing crisis, impacting an estimated 27,000 transactions in 2023, alongside plans to expand social housing and regulate short-term rentals.
Spain Proposes 100% Tax on Non-EU Property Purchases to Curb Housing Crisis
Spain plans to impose a tax of up to 100% on real estate bought by non-EU residents to tackle its housing crisis, impacting an estimated 27,000 transactions in 2023, alongside plans to expand social housing and regulate short-term rentals.
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48% Bias Score
Spanish TV Show Highlights Rare Disease Advocacy
Noah Higón, a 26-year-old with seven rare diseases, appeared on the Spanish TV show La Revuelta, advocating for increased research funding and highlighting the challenges faced by millions of people with rare diseases in Spain.
Spanish TV Show Highlights Rare Disease Advocacy
Noah Higón, a 26-year-old with seven rare diseases, appeared on the Spanish TV show La Revuelta, advocating for increased research funding and highlighting the challenges faced by millions of people with rare diseases in Spain.
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20% Bias Score
Spain Imposes 100% Tax on Non-EU Home Buyers Amid Housing Crisis
To combat Spain's housing crisis, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez proposed a 100% tax on homes bought by non-EU residents, alongside 11 other reforms including taxing tourist apartments as businesses and building more public housing, aiming to alleviate high prices and shortages impacting Spanish citiz...
Spain Imposes 100% Tax on Non-EU Home Buyers Amid Housing Crisis
To combat Spain's housing crisis, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez proposed a 100% tax on homes bought by non-EU residents, alongside 11 other reforms including taxing tourist apartments as businesses and building more public housing, aiming to alleviate high prices and shortages impacting Spanish citiz...
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44% Bias Score
Valencia Flood Exposes Critical Shortage of Elevator Technicians
Over 6,000 elevators remain out of service in 79 Valencian towns after October 20th floods, exposing a critical shortage of elevator technicians and highlighting the need for vocational training improvements; the government is accelerating training programs and accrediting prior experience.
Valencia Flood Exposes Critical Shortage of Elevator Technicians
Over 6,000 elevators remain out of service in 79 Valencian towns after October 20th floods, exposing a critical shortage of elevator technicians and highlighting the need for vocational training improvements; the government is accelerating training programs and accrediting prior experience.
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32% Bias Score
Investigation Launched into Attorney General for Alleged Leak of Confidential Information
Supreme Court Judge Ángel Hurtado is investigating Attorney General Álvaro García Ortiz for allegedly revealing confidential information to counter false accusations spread by the Madrid regional government regarding a plea bargain offer to the boyfriend of President Isabel Díaz Ayuso, focusing on a...
Investigation Launched into Attorney General for Alleged Leak of Confidential Information
Supreme Court Judge Ángel Hurtado is investigating Attorney General Álvaro García Ortiz for allegedly revealing confidential information to counter false accusations spread by the Madrid regional government regarding a plea bargain offer to the boyfriend of President Isabel Díaz Ayuso, focusing on a...
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56% Bias Score
Spain's Respiratory Infection Rate Increases, Straining Healthcare Services
In early January, Spain's acute respiratory infection rate was 639.8 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, exceeding previous weeks and exceeding the epidemic threshold for influenza in late December; however, the Minister of Health Mónica García highlighted that the country has instruments to address the ...
Spain's Respiratory Infection Rate Increases, Straining Healthcare Services
In early January, Spain's acute respiratory infection rate was 639.8 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, exceeding previous weeks and exceeding the epidemic threshold for influenza in late December; however, the Minister of Health Mónica García highlighted that the country has instruments to address the ...
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44% Bias Score
Venezuela's Oil Exports to Spain Surge Amid Political Uncertainty
Venezuela more than doubled its crude oil exports to Spain in 2024, reaching over three million tons—primarily delivered to Repsol to settle debts and for services provided—amidst a backdrop of contested elections and potential international sanctions.
Venezuela's Oil Exports to Spain Surge Amid Political Uncertainty
Venezuela more than doubled its crude oil exports to Spain in 2024, reaching over three million tons—primarily delivered to Repsol to settle debts and for services provided—amidst a backdrop of contested elections and potential international sanctions.
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40% Bias Score
Major Insurers Withdraw from Muface, Citing Massive Losses
SegurCaixa Adeslas and DKV, facing significant financial losses (\$256 million and \$70 million, respectively) from the 2021-2024 Muface contract, have withdrawn from the program and are pursuing legal compensation, leaving the future of the public healthcare system for 1.53 million Spanish public e...
Major Insurers Withdraw from Muface, Citing Massive Losses
SegurCaixa Adeslas and DKV, facing significant financial losses (\$256 million and \$70 million, respectively) from the 2021-2024 Muface contract, have withdrawn from the program and are pursuing legal compensation, leaving the future of the public healthcare system for 1.53 million Spanish public e...
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48% Bias Score
Spain Announces 100% Tax on Non-EU Property Purchases to Tackle Housing Crisis
Spain will implement a 100% tax on property purchases by non-EU buyers to combat its housing crisis, impacting approximately 27,000 transactions in 2023, part of a wider strategy by Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez.
Spain Announces 100% Tax on Non-EU Property Purchases to Tackle Housing Crisis
Spain will implement a 100% tax on property purchases by non-EU buyers to combat its housing crisis, impacting approximately 27,000 transactions in 2023, part of a wider strategy by Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez.
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52% Bias Score
Spain's Housing Crisis: A Bipartisan Approach Needed
Spain's housing crisis necessitates a combined approach, merging proposals from the PP and PSOE to increase housing supply by streamlining bureaucratic processes, investing in industrialized construction, and regulating existing housing stock through tax incentives and penalties.
Spain's Housing Crisis: A Bipartisan Approach Needed
Spain's housing crisis necessitates a combined approach, merging proposals from the PP and PSOE to increase housing supply by streamlining bureaucratic processes, investing in industrialized construction, and regulating existing housing stock through tax incentives and penalties.
Progress
52% Bias Score
Spanish Judicial Reform Raises Impunity Concerns
The Spanish PSOE party's proposed legal reform to limit "acción popular" (popular accusation) in criminal proceedings is raising concerns among judicial associations about potential government impunity and threats to judicial independence, particularly regarding investigations into political figures...
Spanish Judicial Reform Raises Impunity Concerns
The Spanish PSOE party's proposed legal reform to limit "acción popular" (popular accusation) in criminal proceedings is raising concerns among judicial associations about potential government impunity and threats to judicial independence, particularly regarding investigations into political figures...
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60% Bias Score