https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Spain in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Spain's Constitutional Court has ruled that the legal texts passed by the Catalan regional parliament in order to stage an independence referendum on October 1st are unconstitutional and void. https://www.thelocal.es/20171017/spains-constitutional-court-rules-catalan-referendum-law-unconstitutional-and-void Tue, 17 Oct 2017 16:48:01 +0200 spains-constitutional-court-rules-catalan-referendum-law-unconstitutional-and-void A transsexual has won a ten-year-long battle to receive a widow's pension after she was repeatedly denied the right to one for not having had any children with her de facto partner. https://www.thelocal.es/20130429/spanish-transsexual-bags-widow-pension Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:06:00 +0200 spanish-transsexual-bags-widow-pension