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The proceedings are the latest in a scandal-riddled year for Socialist leader Sánchez. Former Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero recently faced questions over a €53-million pandemic bailout, while Socialist heavyweight Santos Cerdán was investigated in a public-contract kickback probe involving former minister José Luis Ábalos. Both men deny wrongdoing. Gómez’s case will now go to a higher court, which must set a hearing date. Spain’s public prosecutor, which says the evidence does not establish a criminal offense, and the defense teams are seeking acquittals. Hazte Oír, an ultra-Catholic group acting as a private prosecutor, is seeking 13 years in…
The interception of a sailing boat carrying more than two tonnes of cocaine in the Atlantic has led to the dismantling of a logistics network for drug trafficking. The joint military and customs operation off the Galician coast ended with the arrest of the crew on the high seas and of the network’s leader in Girona, marking one of the biggest seizures from the drug cartels’ maritime routes. Operation Doncella, conducted by Spain’s Customs Surveillance Service together with the French customs authorities, resulted in five arrests and the seizure of more than 2,000 kilos of cocaine some 400 miles off…
Published on 21/09/2026 – 22:44 GMT+2 The trial of six French nationals suspected of belonging to the “Islamic State” (IS) group opened in Baghdad on Sunday morning, with the next hearing scheduled for 5 October. They face the death penalty if they are found guilty of crimes “against Iraq and the Iraqi people.” Their lawyers are calling for them to be repatriated to France, arguing that the proceedings are being conducted too quickly and do not give their clients a proper opportunity to mount an adequate defence. The suspects were part of a group of 47 French nationals transferred last…
3.2% of Spaniards have rented or looked to rent a room in a shared flat, up from 2.8% a year ago. This is the key finding from the report Profile of people who share housing, produced by Fotocasa Research using data from the first half of 2026, which shows this option is becoming an increasingly common alternative in the rental market. Fotocasa puts this down to a lack of financial leeway rather than to personal preference. “Tenants are not looking to share a flat because it is their first choice, but because the market forces them to adjust their expectations…
Merkel spoke at the opening of a Bundestag exhibition on former Chancellors Konrad Adenauer and Willy Brandt, before joining Bundestag President Julia Klöckner for a discussion on Adenauer, democracy and politics. Adenauer, West Germany’s first postwar chancellor and the CDU’s first leader, helped shape the party as a broad-based Christian movement. Most of the on-stage conversation focused on art, with the lack of more in-depth political discussion notable given the scale of the CDU’s recent losses. On Sept. 6, the far-right AfD won 43.8 percent in Saxony-Anhalt, more than doubling its 2021 result, while Merz’s CDU fell to 17.2 percent…
Lithuania is “very sceptical” of removing Uzbek-Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov from the latest sanctions list, the country’s finance minister, Taurimas Valys, said. France requested to delist Usmanov from the blacklist last week as part of a package that could see two French nationals released from prison in Azerbaijan. The country cited national security concerns as its reason for joining Slovakia in calling for the removal, but French officials have refused to comment or provide further details. “Regarding any loosening of sanctions, we’re very sceptical,” Valys said on Euronews’ interview programme 12 Minutes With. The French position has complicated efforts to…
Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party has won a record supermajority in parliament, preliminary results showed Monday. The tightly controlled three-day vote excluded every party critical of the Kremlin or the war in Ukraine. Central Election Commission chief Ella Pamfilova said United Russia had secured 355 of the State Duma’s 450 seats. That beats its previous record of 343, set in 2016, and is well above the 301 needed to change the constitution. Final results are due later this week. The Communist Party came second with 40 seats, followed by the nationalist LDPR on 25, New People on 20 and A…
“We have to be very careful and understand that Russia is trying to destabilize and scare Europe. And any time we overreact to a hybrid attack, they have actually won the battle in that particular way,” Stubb told POLITICO during an interview on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly in New York. “We also have to understand that it is not in the interest of Russia nor in the capacity of Russia to go full-scale” with military escalation, Stubb added. “So they will continue to intimidate and we just have to be, as I say, cool, calm and collected…
Published on 21/09/2026 – 17:13 GMT+2 Calin Georgescu has been detained in Romania as prosecutors said they were investigating the former Romanian presidential candidate for fraud. Georgescu, a pro-Russian politician who first made headlines during Romania’s 2024 presidential election, was detained by police and the Directorate for Investigating Organised Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) on Monday. He was taken in for questioning over alleged fraud and forming an organised criminal group. Prosecutors accused Georgescu and two others of defrauding a Romanian businessman by making him believe he could get access to up to €15 million worth of foreign bank financing in…
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