News - ESP
5 articles tagged ESP, newest first
2026-08-23
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│ Six EU countries push for windfall tax on │
│ oil companies amid surging war profits │
│ large - Euronews - unknown/unknown │
│ [DEU,ITA,AUT,POL,PRT,ESP,IRL] │
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│ Finance ministers of Germany, Italy, │
│ Austria, Poland, Portugal and Spain jointly │
│ asked the Irish presidency to put a │
│ windfall tax on Hormuz-inflated oil profits │
│ on the Sept 18-19 Ecofin agenda, with │
│ Dublin open to the debate. Fiscal-policy │
│ signal, no score moves. │
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│ https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/08/ │
│ 23/six-eu-countries-push-for-windfall-tax-o │
│ n-oil-companies-amid-surging-war-profits │
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2026-07-28
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│ France declares first national wildfire │
│ emergency as Europe burns │
│ feature - Associated Press - │
│ wire/independent [FRA,ESP,GRC] │
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│ France's worst fires since WWII burned │
│ 100,000+ acres in Gironde with ~200,000 │
│ evacuated, prompting the first-ever │
│ national wildfire emergency; one of Spain's │
│ largest fires ever burned 111,000+ acres │
│ near Madrid (~63,000 evacuated) as a fourth │
│ 40C+ heatwave began July 28; Greece lost │
│ three firefighters. ~330,000-375,000 │
│ evacuated across the region in Europe's │
│ worst recorded heatwave season. Drove │
│ France climate near -1 to -2; Spain climate │
│ held at -5 with confidence up. │
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│ https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0 │
│ 7/28/europe-wildfires-france-spain-bordeaux │
│ /9c41e4e2-8a55-11f1-8912-d71e69d679d7_story │
│ .html │
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2026-07-14
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│ Spanish PM Sanchez's brother convicted in │
│ public-hiring case │
│ medium - Reuters (via US News) - │
│ wire/independent [ESP] │
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│ David Sanchez, brother of PM Pedro Sanchez, │
│ was convicted July 14 of nepotism and │
│ banned from public office for 9 years, atop │
│ charges against the PM's wife and a former │
│ aide's 24-year corruption sentence. The │
│ judiciary reaches the PM's family even as │
│ the corruption pattern widens: held Spain │
│ rule_of_law at 0. │
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│ https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/ │
│ 2026-07-14/spanish-pm-sanchezs-brother-conv │
│ icted-in-public-hiring-case │
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2026-07-10
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│ One of Spain's deadliest wildfires kills at │ │ Spain's High Court Widens Graft Inquiry to │
│ least 12 people, with 23 others missing │ │ Include PM's Close Ally │
│ large - NPR - independent/independent [ESP] │ │ medium - Reuters (via US News) - │
│ │ │ wire/independent [ESP] │
│ The Los Gallardos (Almeria) fire became the │ │ │
│ deadliest wildfire in Andalusian history: │ │ The High Court placed Sanchez's former │
│ 13 dead (updated July 12), 9 injured, 23 │ │ chief of staff under investigation with │
│ missing, most victims caught fleeing via a │ │ phone data seized (July 10), atop │
│ dry riverbed; Barcelona logged a record │ │ ex-minister Abalos's 24-year sentence for │
│ 40.5C. Drove Spain climate near -4 to -5. │ │ rigging pandemic medical contracts - the │
│ │ │ judiciary functions while corruption's │
│ https://www.npr.org/2026/07/10/nx-s1-588816 │ │ breadth around the government grows. Drove │
│ 0/southern-spain-wildfire-almeria │ │ Spain rule_of_law 1 to 0. │
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│ https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/ │
│ 2026-07-10/spains-high-court-widens-graft-i │
│ nquiry-to-include-pms-close-ally │
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