The Council of Ministers of Spain has recently approved a comprehensive national plan to combat corruption, prompted by the involvement of former Spanish Socialist Workers' Party officials, José Luis Ábalos and Santos Cerdán, in the Koldo case. This initiative was announced by President Pedro Sánchez during a session in Congress on the ninth of July. At a press conference following the first Council meeting after the summer break, government spokesperson Pilar Alegría outlined that the plan integrates recommendations from the […]

Two soldiers from the Spanish Army have sustained serious injuries in a traffic accident while they were involved in firefighting efforts in Galicia. The incident occurred at around eleven twenty in the morning on the A fifty-two motorway, near Trasmiras, Ourense. Their military vehicle collided with a livestock truck, resulting in one soldier being evacuated by helicopter due to critical injuries, while the other was transported to hospital via ambulance. Emergency services, including the Galician Emergency Service and local firefighters, […]

In a significant move, the Spanish government has approved the declaration of areas severely affected by wildfires and heavy rains as civil protection emergency zones. This decision, made during the first Council of Ministers meeting post-summer, aims to assist those impacted by the climate disasters recorded from June twenty-third to August twenty-fifth. Among the one hundred and eighteen emergencies, one hundred and thirteen were due to wildfires. The fires have ravaged approximately four hundred and eighteen thousand hectares in Spain, […]