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 Spanish prosecutors on Monday demanded the extradition of a Spanish man convicted over the 1977 killing of five leftists in Madrid, after his arrest in Brazil last week. https://www.thelocal.es/20181211/spain-starts-brazil-extradition-bid-for-gunman-in-1977-attack Tue, 11 Dec 2018 10:35:53 +0100 spain-starts-brazil-extradition-bid-for-gunman-in-1977-attack Three officers have been suspended by Madrid's municipal police force over a Whatsapp group where death threats were made to public figures including the city's mayor and high-profile TV journalists, as well as towards a fellow officer who reported them. https://www.thelocal.es/20171123/madrid-police-suspends-three-officers-over-death-threats-to-mayor-and-journalists-in-whatsapp-group Thu, 23 Nov 2017 11:25:08 +0100 madrid-police-suspends-three-officers-over-death-threats-to-mayor-and-journalists-in-whatsapp-group One of Spain's leading journalists is to take legal measures after a newspaper uncovered death threats and insults towards her and her family in a private Whatsapp group for municipal police in Madrid. https://www.thelocal.es/20171121/top-spanish-journalist-to-take-legal-action-over-death-threats-in-police-whatsapp-group Tue, 21 Nov 2017 13:46:50 +0100 top-spanish-journalist-to-take-legal-action-over-death-threats-in-police-whatsapp-group Swept to power in 2015 by Spain's "Indignants" anti-austerity movement, two political novices lead Madrid and Barcelona with the tough task of increasing social spending without generating more debt. https://www.thelocal.es/20170613/a-tale-of-two-indignants-cities-in-spain Tue, 13 Jun 2017 11:38:19 +0200 a-tale-of-two-indignants-cities-in-spain Rita Maestre has been ordered to pay €4,380 for her role in a protest when she was still a university student during which she bared her bra in a chapel. https://www.thelocal.es/20160318/madrid-official-fined-over-topless-protest-at-student-chapel Fri, 18 Mar 2016 12:57:36 +0100 madrid-official-fined-over-topless-protest-at-student-chapel Madrid's security chief was forced to hide out in a bar on Tuesday, after being chased and yelled at by hundreds of police officers protesting the city's decision to dissolve a security unit. https://www.thelocal.es/20160217/security-police-chief-forced-to-hide-angry-riot-police Wed, 17 Feb 2016 11:01:58 +0100 security-police-chief-forced-to-hide-angry-riot-police The conservative opposition in the Spanish capital has complained that Madrid’s streets are so covered with leaves they pose a "security problem". https://www.thelocal.es/20160108/could-late-autumn-leaf-fall-pose-security-problem-in-madrid Fri, 08 Jan 2016 11:36:25 +0100 could-late-autumn-leaf-fall-pose-security-problem-in-madrid Madrid mayor Manuela Carmena has lived up to her scrupulous standards by refusing to accept a Christmas gift from a businessman. https://www.thelocal.es/20160104/carmena-madrid-mayor-turns-down-25-gift-spain Mon, 04 Jan 2016 16:46:02 +0100 carmena-madrid-mayor-turns-down-25-gift-spain The goal was "to make these people happy, give them love and affection...that at least one time a year, for some of them the first time in their lives, they can sit at a table with flowers, with red napkins." https://www.thelocal.es/20151225/madrid-lays-on-christmas-eve-feast-for-homeless Fri, 25 Dec 2015 10:25:46 +0100 madrid-lays-on-christmas-eve-feast-for-homeless Madrid City Hall has confirmed it will change the names of 30 streets in the capital that currently honour people connected to the regime of Spanish dictator General Francisco Franco. https://www.thelocal.es/20151222/madrid-to-change-the-name-of-30-streets-related-to-franco Tue, 22 Dec 2015 12:47:54 +0100 madrid-to-change-the-name-of-30-streets-related-to-franco Madrid's left-wing city government has said it may challenge its costly interest-rate swap agreements in court, just days after it announced it would drop the services of credit rating agencies. https://www.thelocal.es/20151020/madrid-city-hall-mulls-court-challenge-to-interest-rate-swaps Tue, 20 Oct 2015 10:59:17 +0200 madrid-city-hall-mulls-court-challenge-to-interest-rate-swaps Madrid's left-wing mayor has a new plan to help clean up the city's streets... get university students to do the sweeping. https://www.thelocal.es/20151002/madrid-mayor-wants-university-students-to-clean-up-madrid Fri, 02 Oct 2015 18:16:58 +0200 madrid-mayor-wants-university-students-to-clean-up-madrid The anti-austerity mayor of Madrid, Manuela Carmena, has come under fire from her right-wing rivals for "double standards" this week after enjoying a "luxury holiday". But what is the truth of the claim? https://www.thelocal.es/20150819/politicians-holidays-under-scrutiny-in-spain Wed, 19 Aug 2015 17:29:36 +0200 politicians-holidays-under-scrutiny-in-spain A square in the heart of Madrid’s gay district of Chueca is to be renamed and dedicated to Pedro Zerolo, a Spanish lawyer, politician and gay rights activist who died in June 2015. https://www.thelocal.es/20150722/madrid-square-to-be-renamed-after-gay-rights-hero Wed, 22 Jul 2015 12:38:13 +0200 madrid-square-to-be-renamed-after-gay-rights-hero Madrid's new left-wing city hall drew fire on Thursday for launching a website to correct erroneous media reports about it, which critics and rivals branded a "totalitarian" affront to press freedom. https://www.thelocal.es/20150717/madrid-mayor-slammed-for Fri, 17 Jul 2015 10:46:33 +0200 madrid-mayor-slammed-for Manuela Carmena, the new left-wing mayor of Madrid, is set to get rid of all street signs bearing references to the late dictator Francisco Franco, replacing them with the names of illustrious women and local heroes. https://www.thelocal.es/20150706/madrid-mayor-to-rid-city-of-franco Mon, 06 Jul 2015 17:49:53 +0200 madrid-mayor-to-rid-city-of-franco Manuela Carmena, the new left-wing mayor of Madrid, has proposed changing the name of a Madrid square named after the Iron Lady. https://www.thelocal.es/20150703/madrid-mayor-to-rename-margaret-thatcher-square Fri, 03 Jul 2015 11:58:34 +0200 madrid-mayor-to-rename-margaret-thatcher-square Ahora Madrid announced last week that it would be giving up the city council´s private box at the prestigious Las Ventas bullring, as well as its top seats at one of Spain's most famous theatres. https://www.thelocal.es/20150622/madrid-city-hall-to-give-up-bullfighting-box Mon, 22 Jun 2015 16:59:54 +0200 madrid-city-hall-to-give-up-bullfighting-box Spain's construction industry is on edge after far-left mayors took office in the nation's two largest cities, Barcelona and Madrid, casting doubts over the future of major building projects. https://www.thelocal.es/20150617/new-mayors-put-breaks-on-big-building-projects Wed, 17 Jun 2015 11:02:29 +0200 new-mayors-put-breaks-on-big-building-projects A second member of Madrid's new left-wing city council faced calls to resign on Tuesday, over her role in a demonstration by semi-naked protesters in a chapel. https://www.thelocal.es/20150617/another-madrid-councillor-under-pressure-to-resign Wed, 17 Jun 2015 10:48:35 +0200 another-madrid-councillor-under-pressure-to-resign