The new Film Law faces a decisive phase in Congress where some of the rules that determine how Spanish films are financed, how much space European productions occupy in theaters, and how much time must pass between a film's premiere and its arrival on platforms may change. The project is...
August faces its final measures and, with September, parliamentary activity returns. The Government made clear some of its priorities for the new session period and one of them is the new Law on Cinema and Audiovisual Culture, an initiative aimed at updating the current regulations in light of the rise...
Mid-August. The temperature continues to rise and the beaches remain crowded, but the back to school is already appearing on the horizon. This will be the last week without the usual activity since next the Government returns with the first Council of Ministers after the holidays, scheduled for Tuesday the 25th,...
The Popular Parliamentary Group has registered a formal complaint and has requested protection from the Congress Table regarding the processing of the Film and Audiovisual Culture Bill. It argues that Sumar would have prepared the report of the Film Law Working Group with the Ministry of Culture without the 'popular'...
This Thursday, July 23, the Congress celebrates an Extraordinary plenary, known as broom, whose agenda includes all the matters that have been pending during the session period to dispatch them before the summer break. And taking advantage of the fact that their lordships will be in the capital, before it,...
The parliamentary groups have already shown their hands for the Draft Law on Cinema. The amendments to the articles are on the table. The parties that make up the Government, the PSOE and Sumar, have paid special attention to the support for co-official languages —out of conviction and, incidentally, as a nod to Junts to attract them towards a 'yes'—....
PSOE and Sumar resorted to their majority in the Congress's Bureau to end the deadline for amendments to the articles of the Film Bill, despite not having guaranteed, far from it, sufficient support. Among the modification proposals from the parties that make up the Government are some related to the...
The Minister of Culture, Ernest Urtasun, announced this Tuesday that on July 14, 15, and 16, Madrid will host the International Forum for Palestinian Culture, a meeting jointly promoted by the Ministries of Culture of Spain and Palestine, whose opening will take place at the National Museum of the Prado...
The Film and Audiovisual Culture Bill has overcome its first parliamentary hurdle in Congress this Thursday, as the two refund amendments registered by PP and Vox were rejected. Both parties intended to halt a regulation that, as the majority of groups agree, arrives "late" but is necessary to replace an...
The Plenary of the Congress of Deputies has rejected the full amendments of PP and Vox to the Draft Law on Cinema, which advances in its parliamentary processing without guarantees of finally landing in the Official State Gazette. The initiative emerged from the freezer after pressure from Sumar, which has...
The Minister of Culture, Ernest Urtasun, defended this Thursday in the Plenary Session of Congress the need to move forward with a new Law on Cinema and Audiovisual Culture "at the height" of the "success" of Spanish audiovisual, and reproached the PP for trying to block its processing in the...
The Minister of Culture, Ernest Urtasun, defended this Thursday in Congress the need to move forward with a new Film Law "at the height" of the "success" that Spanish audiovisual is experiencing, and censured the PP for trying to block its parliamentary processing despite admitting, as he stressed, that the...
The Plenary of the Congress of Deputies will address this Thursday the debate on the two amendments to the entirety registered by PP and Vox against the draft Law on Cinema and Audiovisual Culture, an initiative called to replace the regulations in force since 2007 and which the sector has...
The Plenary Session of Congress resumes its activity starting at 9:00 AM with debates on two royal decree-laws: one with measures for cultural programs and events of public interest and another, from the Treasury, to update the advance payments for 2026 that the Autonomous Communities receive from the financing system....
The spokesperson and deputy secretary of Culture and Sport of the Popular Party, Borja Sémper, has reaffirmed the total amendment registered by his group against the Cinema Bill promoted by the Executive, which he has described as "government blunders" and which faces its first procedure this Thursday in the Plenary...
“We want to push and we have started an offensive from Consumer Affairs, Health, and in Congress”. With these words, a deputy from the Plurinational Group of Sumar anticipates an intense end of the semester for DEMÓCRATA. However, given the parliamentary arithmetic and the discrepancies on hot topics of important...
The IU and Sumar deputy Nahuel González has urged from Congress to step on the accelerator and continue with the "agenda to improve citizens' lives" in the remainder of the legislature. González has insisted on the need to pass laws and has focused on two initiatives: the Law for the Protection...
The deputy from the Popular Parliamentary Group, Borja Sémper, has accused the Executive of "mishandling" culture, while the Minister of Culture, Ernest Urtasun, has called on the PP to withdraw the amendment in its entirety presented in the Congress of Deputies against the Film Law."They are committed not to culture,...
The lack of majorities has brought the legislative production of the Congress of Deputies to a complete halt. PSOE and Sumar, either due to internal disagreements or the risk of texts lapsing, are keeping bills and legislative proposals in the limbo of amendment deadline extensions while waiting to clear the...
The People's Party and Vox have presented amendments in Congress to reject the Bill on Cinema and Audiovisual Culture, with the aim of returning the initiative to the Government, considering that it "pits distributors and exhibitors against each other" and incorporates a strong "ideological" component.Both parties set out their arguments...
In an event organized by MEPs Dolors Montserrat and Rosa Estarás, the Spanish film industry has raised its voice in the heart of Europe. María Luisa Gutiérrez, a key figure behind the success of the Torrente saga, has requested an urgent review of the film law to shield the definition...