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 US President Barack Obama praised Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy for stablizing the country's economy during a low-profile meeting at the White House on Monday, but said there was a still a lot of work to do. https://www.thelocal.es/20140114/spain-still-has-plenty-of-work-to-do-obama Tue, 14 Jan 2014 14:35:00 +0100 spain-still-has-plenty-of-work-to-do-obama Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said on Monday after meeting with US President Barack Obama that Spain had received a "satisfactory" explanation of reports that American spies bugged European leaders' phones. https://www.thelocal.es/20140114/spain-satisfied-with-obamas-answers-in-sp Tue, 14 Jan 2014 10:16:00 +0100 spain-satisfied-with-obamas-answers-in-sp Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy is set to visit US President Barack Obama at the White House on Monday in what some in the Spanish media have called a long overdue meeting. https://www.thelocal.es/20140113/rajoy-and-obama-to-meet Mon, 13 Jan 2014 10:43:00 +0100 rajoy-and-obama-to-meet President Barack Obama will welcome Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy to the White House on January 13, in the wake of US spying allegations that have rattled Washington's relations with Madrid. https://www.thelocal.es/20131213/obama-invites-spanish-pm-to-white-house Fri, 13 Dec 2013 10:26:16 +0100 obama-invites-spanish-pm-to-white-house The FBI has praised Spain's police force for helping the US to prevent potential terrorist attacks on European cities, including an Al-Qaeda plan to deliver explosives by using drones. https://www.thelocal.es/20131212/spain-stopped-al-qaeda-drone-attack-on-europeus Thu, 12 Dec 2013 18:06:00 +0100 spain-stopped-al-qaeda-drone-attack-on-europeus Spain is the country that made the third highest number of requests for private user data from Apple in the first half of 2013, a new transparency report by the technology company reveals. https://www.thelocal.es/20131106/apple-opens-spain-books-in-spy-row Wed, 06 Nov 2013 12:36:00 +0100 apple-opens-spain-books-in-spy-row Spanish secret services regularly share large amounts of intercepted data with their US counterparts, including details of telephone calls, a newspaper reported on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.es/20131031/spain-shares-phone-data-with-us-report Thu, 31 Oct 2013 16:59:00 +0100 spain-shares-phone-data-with-us-report The head of Spain's intelligence services will address parliament over reports of US telephone-spying in Europe that have tested relations with Washington, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.es/20131030/spains-intel-boss-to-speak-on-us-spy-scandal Wed, 30 Oct 2013 12:52:00 +0100 spains-intel-boss-to-speak-on-us-spy-scandal The international row over US spying took a 180-degree turn on Tuesday when the head of the US spy agency the NSA stated that tracking of Spanish and French phone records was carried out by those countries' intelligence services and not by his organization, as European media reports had earlier suggested. https://www.thelocal.es/20131030/spain-spied-for-the-us-nsa-boss Wed, 30 Oct 2013 10:28:00 +0100 spain-spied-for-the-us-nsa-boss Spain's public prosecutor opened a preliminary investigation on Tuesday into reported mass US eavesdropping on millions of telephone calls to determine if a crime was committed. https://www.thelocal.es/20131029/spain-eyes-criminal-probe-into-us-spying Tue, 29 Oct 2013 15:54:05 +0100 spain-eyes-criminal-probe-into-us-spying Spain summoned the US ambassador on Monday to denounce newly reported mass US eavesdropping on its citizens' telephone calls as "inappropriate and unacceptable" while Spain's foreign minister said the scandal could rupture the climate of trust between the two allies. https://www.thelocal.es/20131029/spying-could-ruin-our-trust-in-us-spain Tue, 29 Oct 2013 10:35:00 +0100 spying-could-ruin-our-trust-in-us-spain Spain has denounced newly reported mass US eavesdropping on its citizens' telephone calls, calling it "inappropriate and unacceptable" as outrage spread over the worldwide espionage programme. https://www.thelocal.es/20131028/spain-enraged-by-uss-unacceptable-phone-taps Mon, 28 Oct 2013 20:44:00 +0100 spain-enraged-by-uss-unacceptable-phone-taps Spain demanded on Monday details of reported mass US eavesdropping on its citizens, denouncing the alleged surveillance as "inappropriate and unacceptable" as outrage spread over the worldwide espionage programme. https://www.thelocal.es/20131028/spain-demands-details-of-mass-us-eavesdropping Mon, 28 Oct 2013 16:17:40 +0100 spain-demands-details-of-mass-us-eavesdropping US security services tracked 60.5 million telephone calls in Spain in a single month, according to a leaked document published on Monday in a leading Spanish newspaper. https://www.thelocal.es/20131028/us-tracked-60-million-spanish-phone-calls Mon, 28 Oct 2013 11:23:00 +0100 us-tracked-60-million-spanish-phone-calls Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said on Friday he would call in the US ambassador to Madrid to explain reports of US spying on the country, a close ally of Washington. https://www.thelocal.es/20131025/spain-to-calls-in-us-ambassador-in-spy-row Fri, 25 Oct 2013 17:06:00 +0200 spain-to-calls-in-us-ambassador-in-spy-row The US spied on members of Spain's government, Spain's largest national newspaper said on Friday, citing sources claiming to be familiar with the documents leaked by National Security Agency (NSA) whistle-blower Edward Snowden. https://www.thelocal.es/20131025/us-spied-on-spanish-leaders-reports Fri, 25 Oct 2013 12:09:00 +0200 us-spied-on-spanish-leaders-reports Spain's security services believe the US systematically spied on the country as in France or Germany, Spanish media reported on Tuesday. Intelligence whistleblower Edward Snowden is expected to leak secret information on Spain shortly. https://www.thelocal.es/20131022/snowden-spain-leaks Tue, 22 Oct 2013 11:46:00 +0200 snowden-spain-leaks