News of the Government of Spain

September 2021

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  Darias: We need strong global healthcare today to protect citizens from future health threats

  Monday 13 September 2021

  The Minister for Health, Carolina Darias, has advocated the need to promote a strong global health system to protect the world's citizens from future health threats, such as the pandemic caused by the COVID-19 coronavirus.

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  Spain donates 20 million euros for humanitarian assistance to Afghan refugees

  Monday 13 September 2021

  The Minister for Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, José Manuel Albares, has announced that Spain will contribute 20 million euros in humanitarian assistance to the Afghan crisis, of which at least seven million euros will be this year.

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  The Government of Spain rejects the unfounded accusations made by the Nicaraguan Public Prosecutor's Office against the writer Sergio Ramírez

  Sunday 12 September 2021

  The Ministry for Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation and the Ministry for Culture and Sport, in a joint communiqué, express their categorical rejection of the unfounded accusations made by the Nicaraguan Public Prosecutor's Office against the writer Sergio Ramírez, for whom they have issued an arrest warrant and ordered the search of his property.

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  The Ministry for Home Affairs will create hate crime groups within the intelligence units of the National Police and the Civil Guard

  Friday 10 September 2021

  The President of the Government of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, has chaired the Follow-up Commission of the Action Plan to Combat Hate Crimes, which has analysed the new measures to be developed in the period 2022-2024.

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  Spain recovers 70% of 2019 air capacity by the end of the summer season

  Thursday 9 September 2021

  The number of seats scheduled by airlines on international flights to Spain for the months of September and October reached 14,196,367 seats, a volume that represents 70% of those in the same period of 2019 and practically triple that of the equivalent months last year, according to data on air capacity released by Turespaña.