Spain's govt aims to reduce voting age to 16
Spain's Ministry of Youth and Children, led by Sira Rego, aims to lower the universal suffrage age from 18 to 16 yearsof age.
The ministry plans to submit the draft bill to the Spanish Cabinet for its initial approval "before the summer".
The aim is that "public policies adopt a youth perspective in a cross-cutting manner and guarantee the youth perspective in the management of public resources".
Spain to lure young people to become truck and bus drivers with €2,000 subsidy
Spain's Ministry of Transport is finalising a subsidy of €2,000 per person to train new truck and bus drivers given that there's a shortage of 30,000 drivers in the country. The government would also cover the cost of exams and other training fees.
The same is being considered as a way to attract youngsters to join to Spanish army and navy.
Spain economy minister heads to US as EU seeks tariff deal
Spanish Economy Minister Carlos Cuerpo will travel to Washington for talks on Tuesday with US officials as the European Union races to reach a deal on tariffs.
His visit will come following European Trade Commissioner Maros Sefcovic's visit to Washington on Monday, where he will be holding discussions with the US on the bloc's behalf to avoid an all-out trade war after President Trump imposed massive tariffs.
Cuerpo told a group of foreign journalists he would meet with US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Tuesday as well as World Bank President Ajay Banga and "numerous US business leaders" to "strengthen" bilateral ties.
His visit "fits very well" with Sefcovic's trip to Washington, which has "the full and complete support" of the bloc's 27 member states, he said.
Cuerpo said he hoped "we are all capable of reaching a negotiated and balanced agreement between both parties, because it will be very beneficial for everyone."
Trump said he would slap 20 percent tariffs on EU goods, to which the bloc has promised countermeasures should negotiations with Washington fail.
The US president last week announced a 90-day pause in the implementation of higher duties, leaving just a global baseline 10 percent tariff intact for now.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has promised an aid package worth €14.1 billion to help sectors such as olive oil and wine to weather the trade storm.
One in five plane passengers in Spain suffer delays
Some 4.5 million passengers who flew through Spanish airports in the first quarter of this year, 18.75 percent of the total, experienced flight delays, according to data from AirHelp.
The platform highlights that between January and March, more than 24 million passengers boarded a flight from a Spanish airport, 82 percent of whom caught flights that left on time.
Of the 4.5 million affected, the majority suffered minor delays that did not entail any financial compensation
Spain arrests two over online exotic cat sales
Spanish police said Monday that they had arrested two people suspected of selling online exotic cats including protected species such as white tigers and pumas, and had confiscated 19 felines in the operation.
Officers arrested the couple on the island of Majorca, where they are suspected of raising desert lynxes and servals, a wild cat native to Africa, as well as hybrid species created by crossing these breeds with domestic cats, police said in a statement.
Further investigations found that their activities were just "the tip of the iceberg" of an international trafficking operation of protected species such as white tigers and black panthers "involving breeders, transporters and veterinarians", they said.
"Most of the animals offered for sale came from countries such as Russia, Belarus and Ukraine to be smuggled into the European Union," they added.
Police suspect the animals were brought into the European Union via Poland from Belarus, and were then offered across the bloc with false documentation.
Among the other species the couple offered for sale on its social media accounts were European lynxes, hyenas and pumas.
Police said the suspects had offered a clouded leopard, one of the world's most rare and elusive cats, at a price of €60,000 ($68,000).
Officers also seized a caracal, a desert lynx known for its distinctive long ear tufts, as well as two servals and 16 hybrid felines.
They also seized more than 40 animal passports from Russia, Belarus and China as part of the operation.
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