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Pedro Sánchez

Spain is one of the last redoubts of socialist power in a major EU member country, thanks to Sánchez’s ability to defy the odds over and over again. But now his fragile coalition — hinging on a controversial amnesty deal with Catalan separatists — could fall apart, which may leave him parachuting in to Brussels for a top job.
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November 9, 2024 4:00 am CET

Shovel-wielding mob strikes Spanish PM Sánchez on visit to flood-hit town

A far-right group has taken responsibility for the attack, in which Pedro Sánchez was struck by an object.

November 4, 2024 1:23 pm CET

Violent mob chases Spain’s king, prime minister out of flood-hit Valencia town

Residents living among ruins and dead bodies decry the response of authorities to the disaster — and brace for more rain.

November 3, 2024 5:21 pm CET

Spain sends 10,000 more soldiers and police to tackle historic floods

It’s the nation’s largest-ever military deployment in peacetime, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said, as the death toll topped 200.

November 2, 2024 3:55 pm CET

Sexual assault allegations leave Spanish left-wing coalition partner reeling

Íñigo Errejón resigned and his former chief of staff was expelled in a snowballing scandal.

October 29, 2024 1:28 pm CET

China won’t like the sound of EU commissioner hearings. Here’s why.

China will be everywhere in the EU’s policymaking machinery for the next five years. Expect more turbulence ahead.

October 29, 2024 4:20 am CET

Von der Leyen promises more deportations as EU veers right on migration

European leaders are backing deportation centers, sending migrants back to Afghanistan and Syria, and banning asylum in Poland.

October 18, 2024 3:41 pm CET

Ireland ready to go it alone and restrict trade ties with Israel, taoiseach says

Ireland “will not wait for everybody in Europe to move on the issue of trade in the occupied Palestinian territories,” PM Simon Harris tells reporters.

October 16, 2024 5:03 pm CET

Spain’s Sánchez urges Brussels to suspend trade deal with Israel

Spanish PM reiterates request made with Ireland to review association accord with Israel, after calling last week for a halt to arms exports.

October 14, 2024 3:04 pm CET

France, Italy summon Israeli ambassadors after UN peacekeepers struck by Israeli forces

French Ministry for Foreign Affairs says Israel’s targeting of UNIFIL troops was “deliberate.”

October 11, 2024 5:32 pm CET

Spanish PM Sánchez urges countries to stop selling arms to Israel

Spanish PM joins a similiar plea from French President Emmanuel Macron.

October 11, 2024 2:01 pm CET

Mission Impossible: Germany’s bid to kill EU duties on Chinese EVs

Berlin has one last chance to overturn the tariffs at a vote by member countries. But getting the required blocking majority looks to be out of reach — and would be without precedent.

September 24, 2024 4:30 am CET
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Europe is betting everything on getting richer

Making the EU more competitive has become its obsession. No one knows if that’s achievable ― or whether other policies will survive it.

September 19, 2024 9:35 pm CET

Chinese trade boss comes to Brussels on Don’t Tax My Car tour

Whistle-stop tour of European capitals by Wang Wentao could end in a tough gig when he meets EU trade chief Valdis Dombrovskis.

September 17, 2024 6:50 pm CET

How Teresa Ribera became the second-most-powerful person in Brussels

Spain’s climate expert is poised to become the EU’s competition chief, net-zero architect and economic transformer — all in one.

September 17, 2024 6:42 pm CET

Spain’s Teresa Ribera gets top job in charge of competition, climate in new Commission

Ursula von der Leyen appoints the socialist politician as her No. 2.

September 17, 2024 10:40 am CET

Venezuela arrests US, EU citizens over alleged plot to kill Maduro

Caracas accused U.S. citizens, two Spaniards and a Czech national of exporting “destabilization” to the South American country.

September 15, 2024 2:06 pm CET

EU rejects Chinese proposals to avoid duties on EVs

Offer of price floors or volume caps would not offset the injury caused by Chinese subsidies, European Commission says.

September 12, 2024 1:02 pm CET

Sánchez triggers anger by picking ally for Spain’s central bank

José Luis Escrivá has all the experience needed for the job but may struggle to escape the taint of cronyism.

September 5, 2024 2:24 pm CET

Catalonia turns the page

Catalans themselves have now decided to end the nationalist/independence majority in their parliament — and we intend to listen to them.

August 28, 2024 4:00 am CET

Cocaine, Jeffrey Epstein and a dead elephant: Royals behaving badly vex Europe’s leaders

Monarchies endure while repeated scandals trigger embarrassment for top politicians.

August 22, 2024 4:00 am CET

Spain’s Sánchez outfoxes Puigdemont again

Spanish leader will be quietly delighted that the Catalan separatist is far away in Belgium, rather than in jail as a martyr.

August 11, 2024 2:15 pm CET

How did Carles Puigdemont pull off his great disappearing act? We asked a former spy.

The fugitive separatist leader snuck into Spain, gave a speech in Barcelona and then vanished into thin air.

August 9, 2024 4:01 am CET

7 EU countries press Venezuela to release voting records of contested election

France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Poland and Portugal urge the Venezuelan government to “release promptly all the tally sheets” from controversial vote.

August 4, 2024 2:24 pm CET
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