All the headlines from our Spain Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 7 2025 // Thousands of rail passengers in Spain were hit with delays after copper cables used in the signaling system of a high-speed line traveling south from Madrid to Seville were stolen at five locations, authorities said...
May 5 2025 // Spain’s high-voltage electricity grid suffered more power generation disruptions than previously known ahead of the country’s largest ever blackout, the government said.“There is new information: there...
Apr 30 2025 // As factories, stores and hotels across Spain and Portugal gradually returned to normal on Tuesday after a huge blackout the day before, business associations and companies began counting the cost.Spain’s main...
Apr 28 2025 // Most of Spain and all of Portugal were hit by a major blackout that impacted public transport, airports and phone service, leaving authorities scrambling to find the causes for one of the worst outages in Europe in...
Mar 26 2025 // Spain’s antitrust watchdog said on Tuesday it had opened an investigation into Italian insurer Generali and local health insurance provider Sanitas over potential anti-competitive practices.The CNMC watchdog said the...
Mar 25 2025 // Jana, Konrad, Laurence and Martinho — the unprecedented string of four named storms that barreled through the Iberian peninsula in the past three weeks — came with a silver lining: the likely end of Spain’s worst...
Mar 20 2025 // Spain is bracing for another round of torrential rains after flooding forced home evacuations, washed away cars and killed at least three people this week in the southern region of Andalusia.Authorities in Spain and...
Mar 12 2025 // Arch Insurance Names 2 Senior Leaders for Casualty Team in SpainArch Insurance announced the appointments of Carmen Cobeta as head of Casualty, Spain, and Irene Fernandez Franic as senior casualty underwriter, effective...
Feb 7 2025 // Spain is seeking European approval to repurpose more than a billion euros of post-pandemic recovery funds to make Valencia more resilient against climate change after the Mediterranean region suffered catastrophic heavy...
Nov 20 2024 // Last month’s catastrophic floods in eastern Spain are likely to have a negative impact of 0.2 percentage points on the country’s gross domestic product in the fourth quarter, the Bank of Spain said on...
Nov 18 2024 // Total insured losses from recent floods in Spain are expected to exceed €4 billion (US$4.2 billion), according to credit rating agency Morningstar DBRS.This insured price tag includes losses absorbed by the Consorcio de...
Nov 8 2024 // The floods that devastated the Spanish region of Valencia at the end of last month are expected to trigger total insurance losses in excess of €3.5 billion ($3.8 billion), Moody’s said citing official...
Nov 8 2024 // As a deadly storm bore down on Valencia on Oct. 29, the regional president was attending a ceremony to recognize his work on sustainable tourism.Three hours earlier, Spain’s national climate agency had issued a red...
Nov 6 2024 // Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced the first financial package for victims of the storms that killed more than 200 people in the country’s eastern region of Valencia.Spain will earmark as much as €10.6...
Nov 5 2024 // The region of Valencia is asking Spain’s central government for rescue funds to help with rebuilding after floods last week destroyed homes and left more than 200 dead.The Valencian government agreed to ask Madrid...
Nov 4 2024 // Southern Spain’s devastating floods are expected to cost insurers well above €1 billion ($1.1 billion), given the significant damage to people, properties, vehicles and businesses as well as to the region’s...
Nov 1 2024 // Floods that killed more than 150 people in eastern Spain this week were caused by a storm that dumped a year’s worth of rainfall in less than 24 hours.The tragedy has raised questions about whether earlier warnings...
Oct 31 2024 // Spain declared three days of mourning as heavy rains killed more than 90 people, in what is already one of the country’s worst-ever natural disasters.The local government of Valencia, the coastal region at the...
Oct 30 2024 // More than 60 people died as eastern Spain was hit by one of the worst storms in decades on Tuesday night.The storm is “one of the three strongest in the last century in the region of Valencia,” the Spanish...
Jul 25 2024 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Marsh, Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) and the re/insurer IQUW.A summary of these new hires follows here. Marsh Promotes McKay as UK Advisory...