Madrid - Spain is backtracking on plans to nationalize tens of thousands of seaside residences in an attempt to protect the coastline from pollution, the daily El Pais reported Monday.
The Environment Ministry had intended to step up the application of a 1988 law prohibiting the construction of housing near the water line.
The owners of such houses, many of whom are British and German nationals, would have been granted the right to use them for up to 60 years without being allowed to sell them.
Madrid - The Spanish Cinema Academy was Monday seen as having made a bold choice in granting six Goya Awards to Javier Fesser's film Camino (The Road), which depicts the influential conservative Catholic organization Opus Dei in a critical light.
Spain's top movie awards, which were granted for the 23th time, were announced at a Madrid gala overnight.
Camino was "the riskiest and politically most uncomfortable" candidate, the daily El Mundo said, while El Pais described the movie as a "different" film on "spirituality, (and) on how Opus Dei manipulates the illness of a child."
Madrid - Malaga stay in seventh place in the Spanish Liga as a result of Saturday's pulsating late 3-2 defeat away to in-form Athletic Bilbao.
Victory in San Mames would have taken Malaga up to fourth and they were twice in the lead, only to collapse in the final minutes.
Bilbao were given a rowdy reception in San Mames because of Wednesday's cup win away to Sporting Gijon. They face Sevilla in the quarter-finals next week.
Madrid - Real Madrid have agreed with West Ham United to take Julien Faubert on loan until the end of the season, according to Spanish media reports.
According to the digital versions of AS and Marca, Real will pay the East London club 1.5 million euros (1.96 million dollars) for the 25 year-old French winger, with an option to buy him in the summer for 6 million euros.
Real have been looking for another winger since selling Robinho to Manchester City in August.
Madrid - The Spanish government has begun granting certificates recognizing the suffering of General Francisco Franco's leftist victims during the 1936-39 civil war and Franco's ensuing dictatorship, sources of the Justice Ministry said Friday.
The first 42 recipients included the family of former Catalan regional prime minister Lluis Companys, who was sentenced to death by a Francoist tribunal on what is widely regarded as insufficient evidence, and executed in 1940.
Madrid - Spain is backtracking on plans to nationalize tens of thousands of seaside residences in an attempt to protect the coastline from pollution, the daily El Pais reported Monday.
Madrid - The Spanish Cinema Academy was Monday seen as having made a bold choice in granting six Goya Awards to Javier Fesser's film Camino (The Road), which depicts the influential conservative Catholic organization Opus Dei in a critical light.
Madrid - Spanish Liga club Betis announced late on Saturday night the signing of Ricardo Oliveira from second division Zaragoza.
Madrid - Malaga stay in seventh place in the Spanish Liga as a result of Saturday's pulsating late 3-2 defeat away to in-form Athletic Bilbao.
Madrid - Real Madrid have agreed with West Ham United to take Julien Faubert on loan until the end of the season, according to Spanish media reports.
Madrid - The Spanish government has begun granting certificates recognizing the suffering of General Francisco Franco's leftist victims during the 1936-39 civil war and Franco's ensuing dictatorship, sources of the Justice Ministry said Friday.
