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The president and the penthouse: how Madrid’s government spent €6.3m on a temporary ‘office’

Saga surrounding purchase for outspoken rightwing regional leader Isabel Díaz Ayuso refuses to go away

The Guardian - UK

Monday briefing: What can Andy Burnham learn from Spain’s Pedro Sánchez?

In today’s newsletter: The Spanish prime minister has remade himself as Europe’s leading leftwing standard-bearer. Could his success offer the UK’s PM a route forward?

The Guardian - UK

Spanish PM’s brother banned from public office after misconduct trial

Conviction over hiring by socialist-led council is one of a series of corruption claims facing Pedro Sánchez’s family

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Pedro Sánchez tells Congress: 'I never knew of, nor would I have tolerated, any of these practices'

Junts, the Catalan pro-independence party whose seven MPs were instrumental in securing his return to power in 2023, called on the prime minister to resign and allow another Socialist leader to take over the government.

Euronews

Spain's Supreme Court jails former socialist minister for 24 years in COVID corruption case

A major blow to Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, Spain's Supreme Court has sentenced former socialist minister and close Sánchez ally José Luis Ábalos to 24 years in prison in a corruption case linked to COVID-19 mask contracts.

Euronews

Spain’s prime minister faces difficult week as wife and ex-PM summoned before judges

Pedro Sánchez’s wife, Begoña Gómez, charged and predecessor José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero investigated over offences including influence peddling

The Guardian - UK

Pedro Sánchez: how a string of corruption allegations could make Spain’s Socialist party a threat to its own coalition

In recent months, corruption allegations have increasingly surrounded figures close to Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, from his wife and brother to former senior officials of his party and even former prime minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.

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Spain probe targets Socialist party payments to consultant Leire Díez, 3 times more than admitted

The PSOE paid Díez nearly 45,000 euros for communications work between 2015 and 2017, according to documents sent to a Madrid court, as judges probe an alleged scheme to sway cases affecting the party and the government.

Euronews

PSOE's legal storm: Nine cases closing in on Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez

The government came under increasing pressure this week after authorities searched the Socialist Party's Madrid headquarters.

Euronews

Spanish PM’s family affair: the corruption cases involving Pedro Sánchez’s brother, wife and predecessor

Socialist leader insists no wrongdoing by family and backs former prime minister, but has much to contend with

The Guardian - UK

Spanish police enter ruling Socialist party headquarters over payments linked to Leire Díez

Officers have been at the party's headquarters since early this morning following a subpoena related to payments made to Leire Díez.

Euronews

Pedro Sánchez is loved everywhere – but not so much in Spain. Here’s why

The PM’s socialist party was crushed in its former Andalusian stronghold. With a general election in 2027, time to turn things around is running out, says journalist María Ramírez

The Guardian - UK

Spanish PM Sánchez's party suffers historic loss in key Andalusia regional election

The Socialists took just 28 out of 109 available seats, while the main conservative popular party won 53, two short of a majority. The far-right Vox party took 15 seats, making it a potential kingmaker.

Euronews

Andalucíans vote in election seen as gauge of Spain’s wider political change

Conservatives expected to keep majority as socialists face drubbing and ballot tests trajectory of far-right Vox party

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Andalusia campaign marked by controversy ends ahead of key Sunday vote

Spain's most populous region ends a campaign marked by controversy, in elections followed abroad for their potential political impact.

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Begoña Gómez, wife of Prime Minister Sánchez, to be tried for influence peddling

The decision was announced during the Spanish prime minister's official trip to China, where he is accompanied by his wife.

The Guardian - UK

Twin corruption trials cast a shadow over Spain’s main parties ahead of key elections

With former ministers and party heavyweights being dragged into court, the country is once again confronting the unresolved legacy of political graft and shady backroom deals

The Guardian - UK

Pedro Sánchez’s lone stance against Trump may look risky, but it is cannily pragmatic

The Spanish PM’s defiant foreign policy line may seem outspoken. The truth is that he is a sound strategist at home and abroad, says journalist Eoghan Gilmartin

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Spain’s mass regularisation for 500,000 undocumented migrants is not extreme, unprecedented or opportunistic

As governments around the world tighten migration controls, Spain has taken a strikingly different path. In January 2026, the Spanish cabinet approved a decree opening a pathway to legal residency for hundreds of thousands of undocumented migrants who already live in the country. At a time when deportations, detentions and…

Euronews

The elections that will shape Europe in 2026

Voters across the continent have huge choices to make at the ballot box in the upcoming year. Euronews takes a look at the key electoral tests awaiting the EU - and beyond - in the year ahead.

The Guardian - UK

Spain’s socialists shed voters in regional election as far right makes gains

Vox doubles its seats in Extremadura as Socialist Workers’ party, mired in corruption scandals, loses 10 of its 28 seats

Euronews

Extremadura votes in early elections with PP seeking absolute majority

Around 860,000 Extremadurans go to the polls today in an unprecedented election in the region. María Guardiola brought forward the elections after failing to pass the budget. The polls point to the PP as the winner, but without a majority to govern alone.

The Guardian - UK

Spain’s ruling party faces crunch regional poll amid corruption and harassment claims

Results of Sunday’s snap election in Extremadura are seen as key test of Pedro Sánchez and his PSOE party

The Guardian - UK

Spain’s ruling socialist party accused of failing to act on sexual misconduct by senior men

Slew of allegations of sexual harassment hits party already battered by corruption claims and political setbacks

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Why the rise of a new far-right party in Catalonia spells danger for the Spanish government

Catalan politics are now, it seems, a far cry from 2017’s infamous, unauthorised independence referendum. It was violently repressed by national police forces, led to widespread rioting, triggered a constitutional crisis in Spain, and saw leaders like Carles Puigdemont flee the country.

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