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THE full extent of Spain’s fertility crisis has become apparent after it was revealed that more than one in ten children are born to mothers aged 40 or over – the highest figure of any country in Europe. The National Statistics Institute (INE) published figures that showed 10.4 percent of all births took place in Spain between 2024 and 2025, …

THOUSANDS OF farmers from all over Spain protested in Madrid following the EU’s landmark agreement with a group of South American nations. More than 350 honking tractors rolled down the capital’s main thoroughfare, Paseo de la Castellana, as protesters waved placards reading ‘the Spanish countryside is not for sale’ on Wednesday. After an hour-long traffic standstill, the 2,500 protesters ended …

In the first quarter of 2025, the price of a house in Spain increased twice as quickly as the average for the European Union. Eurostat data shows that Spanish prices increased by 12.3%, or more than double the EU average of 5.7% in the first three months of the year. Portugal (16.3%), Bulgaria (15.1%) and Croatia (13.1%) surpassed Spain in …

THE average temperature in Barcelona could rise by up to 3.7 degrees Celsius by the end of the century unless greenhouse gas emissions are ‘substantially reduced’, a new study has warned. According to research carried out by the ICARIA initiative, a European Union-funded project designed to improve climate resilient, the Catalan city’s average temperature is expected to rise by between …