Topic: Madrid

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New housing rights events scheduled Saturday in Spain

New demonstrations for the right to housing are planned Saturday, October 3 in Madrid and other cities in Spain, following the MPs' rejection of two texts pushed by the executive of Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez to further protect tenants. This new setback for the head of government revives questions about the end of the legislature, scheduled for 2027, and possible early elections. The point with Nicolas Klein, associate professor of Spanish and specialist of Spain. He was the guest of France 24.

3 Oct 2026, 12:07 UTC

World

The demonstrations around the house in Madrid and several Spanish cities, in images

Thousands of people go out to the street to demand measures to ensure access to affordable housing and to report the increase in rent and the lack of residential supply

3 Oct 2026, 11:12 UTC

World

Housing crisis in Spain: new day of mobilization planned

New demonstrations for the right to housing are planned on Saturday in Madrid and in other Spanish cities, following the MPs' rejection of two texts pushed by the executive of Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez to further protect tenants.

3 Oct 2026, 10:07 UTC

World

Roberto's Militetric Search in the Duct to Get the Body of Crime

Twenty officers have been working for weeks to find the body of an old man for whose murder his son is being held, pending trial for another murder.

3 Oct 2026, 05:05 UTC

Politics

Via Lusitana, 21: thus lost Madrid a public building that will be demolished to build 162 floors

EL PAIS X-ray a ruinous operation, in which the government of Ignacio González got rid of the property and then got rented and paid in total more than it got for the sale

3 Oct 2026, 05:04 UTC

Science

The botanist who has taken 30 years to name 18 trees: "It's a race against myself"

A researcher at the Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid brings to light new tree species from Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, but he has much to do

3 Oct 2026, 04:10 UTC

Entertainment

From New York to Madrid: the cities that tell Woody Allen's stories

New York's director starts shooting his next film entirely in the capital on October 5

3 Oct 2026, 04:09 UTC

World

I want to go, but there's no where

In these years, my purchasing power is another. I should be able to move, but there's no one competing with a vulture background.

3 Oct 2026, 04:05 UTC

World

The campsites in Sol decide to stay even though part of the Inquillinas Union announces its progressive departure

The organization that led the protest says that they will focus on the general strike, while the rest of the collectives consider expanding the camp if people continue to reach the square

2 Oct 2026, 21:58 UTC

Politics

Spain: camping in Madrid is maintained after Congress's rejection of housing decrees

The Madrid Puerta del Sol camp will continue after Congress rejected the two government-driven decrees to face the housing crisis on Friday, a spokesman for the Inquillinas Union announced. The Junts, PP and Vox parties had already anticipated that they would vote against the measures.

2 Oct 2026, 21:57 UTC

Politics

Everything is open, including the possibility of an electoral advance

Anabel Diez argues that the housing crisis has placed the Government at a turning point in the legislature

2 Oct 2026, 18:55 UTC

World

30 minutes of silence before the rage before the Congress: "Shame, shame, shame!"

Hundreds of people have followed the vote on the two housing decrees live and now wonder from the Sol camp what the next step is.

2 Oct 2026, 17:57 UTC

World

The former mayor of Navalcarrero, before the judge for the "arbitrary" purchase of antiques with minor contracts: "I wasn't behind every stone"

Baltasar Santos faces his third cause for his municipal management. The prosecution asks for 10 years of disqualification for spending six million euros on granite pieces

2 Oct 2026, 15:41 UTC

World

Spain housing protests rage ahead of key government vote

Spanish lawmakers are due to vote on Friday on two government housing decrees drawn up after an outcry over the eviction of an 87-year-old woman, with their passage in doubt. Several hundred people held raucous protests in Madrid and other Spanish cities ahead of the vote, with demonstrators rattling keys, blowing whistles, banging spoons against pots.

2 Oct 2026, 13:45 UTC

Politics

Spain: Sánchez takes up electoral progress following the collapse of housing decrees: what can be expected?

The president of the Spanish government, Pedro Sánchez, opened a period of reflection on Friday, October 2, in which he will assess during the weekend whether or not he calls for early elections, as the Moncloa sources cited by the local press pointed out. The movement came in the midst of echoes of electoral advancement because of the rejection in the Congress of the Deputies of the two housing decrees submitted by the Government to try to alleviate the housing crisis throughout the country. The measures were sank after votes against the right-wing parties, PP and Junts per Catalunya, as well as

2 Oct 2026, 13:14 UTC

World

The encampments of Sol, after the slap of Congress to their decrees: "For the moment, we are going to stay here"

Protesters and campers waited for the vote with a bitter feeling: "All these perrophlauts you see here have managed to sit the Members in a few days"

2 Oct 2026, 12:31 UTC

World

Amparito Roca changes hands without losing level: market kitchen, selected winery and an average size of 100 euros

After a decade in Madrid, the restaurant that founded Jesús Velasco in Guadalajara, belongs to the Roostiq group, with business in the capital and in Marbella

2 Oct 2026, 06:16 UTC

World

Close Zara, the historic Cuban restaurant in Chueca

The establishment, which opened its doors in 1964, is part of the sentimental memory of several generations

2 Oct 2026, 05:13 UTC

Health

The manager of the Ramón and Cajal admitted to a complainant of the manipulation of the lists that the hospital lacks an anonymous channel

Surgeons Luis Martos and Susana Alonso had complained to the director of the centre of the lack of mechanisms to report incognito

2 Oct 2026, 05:09 UTC

World

"We must save the boss any way": the charge that links the leak of a police document to a PP plan to defend Ayuso

El Pais reconstructs the case that has led the prosecution to ask for two and a half years of disqualification from the mayor of Alcalá, in which the Baroness implied a link between rape and migrants

2 Oct 2026, 05:09 UTC