Tag: Pedro Sanchez PSOE

• Friday, June 7th 2024 - 11:55 UTC

  Milei skipping Ukraine's peace conference and meeting with Macron

  

  After contradicting rumors circulating in Buenos Aires over the past few days, it was reported that President Javier Milei would attend the G7 Summit in Italy, in addition to a trip to Spain.

• Wednesday, September 20th 2023 - 13:09 UTC

  Spain makes official the use of three minority languages, Catalan, Basque and Galician

  

  Spain's national parliament in Madrid allowed the use of three minority languages on Tuesday after a concession to Catalan separatists from Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez. Madrid has also called for the languages — Catalan, Basque, and Galician — to become official EU languages, meeting with objections from some other member states.

• Monday, May 29th 2023 - 19:50 UTC

  General election in Spain in July following the disastrous showing for Socialists in regional voting; Mercosur alert

  

  Spain is set to hold an early general election on July 23, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced on Monday. The announcement comes after Sanchez Socialist Party suffered serious setbacks to the conservative opposition in regional elections held on Sunday.

• Saturday, January 11th 2020 - 09:45 UTC

  New Spanish government takes oath of office next Monday: outstanding names in the cabinet

  

  Women experts and radical leftists looked set to play a dominant role in Spain's new coalition government as Pedro Sanchez on Friday named a senior global trade expert as his top diplomat.

• Wednesday, January 8th 2020 - 09:50 UTC

  Spain finally has a government: a coalition which includes a Catalan separatist group

  

  Socialist leader Pedro Sanchez won the narrowest of victories in Parliament on Tuesday to take power for a second term in Spain with the backing of the anti-austerity party Podemos and a Catalan separatist group.

• Monday, November 11th 2019 - 11:11 UTC

  Spanish elections: hung parliament and the extreme right doubles seats

  

  Spain's Socialists have won the country’s fourth general election in as many years, but without an absolute majority. The PSOE, led by acting Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, has taken just 120 seats out of a possible 350 – three less than the April 28 election, while the extreme right Vox party doubled its number of seats

• Wednesday, September 18th 2019 - 13:56 UTC

  Spanish King calls for new elections Nov. 10 after no deal with political leaders

  

  After a meeting Tuesday with Acting Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and other political leaders, Spain's King Philip VI realised no negotiated solution was available to form a government and chose to call for general elections to be held November 10, it was announced. Spain is the fourth-largest economy in the euro currency zone.

• Thursday, May 9th 2019 - 06:52 UTC

  What could dilute the EU, populism or the lack of a unifying external threat?

  

  By Gwynne Dyer - For the second time in a month, a member country of the European Union has NOT voted a populist into power. Could it be that the populist wave has broken?

• Tuesday, April 23rd 2019 - 09:06 UTC

  Catalonia’s secession surfaces again in Spanish debate ahead of Sunday elections

  

  Spain's outgoing prime minister faced an onslaught of criticism on Monday from his right-wing rivals over Catalonia's secession crisis in a testy four-way debate ahead of elections, while he warned them against cosying up to the far-right.

• Saturday, December 22nd 2018 - 06:11 UTC

  Catalonia protest President Sanchez decision to lead his weekly cabinet meeting in Barcelona

  

  Thousands of pro-independence protesters angry about Spain’s cabinet holding a meeting in Catalonia have blocked roads across the region and clashed with anti-riot police in its capital. Grassroots separatist groups and unions called the protests to show their disgust at Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s decision to lead his weekly cabinet meeting in Barcelona.