31st May 2026

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Sánchez continues to back Zapatero during visit with Pope amid mounting corruption probes

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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez insisted on Wednesday that there was ‘no reason’ to withdraw support for former socialist (PSOE) premier José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero,...
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Spanish anti-corruption police seize documents from ruling socialist party HQ

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Spanish police entered the Madrid headquarters of the ruling Socialist Party (PSOE) on Wednesday to demand documents as part of a widening corruption investigation that...
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Judge delays Zapatero’s Plus Ultra testimony as police seize jewellery and luxury watches from safe

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Spain’s High Court judge José Luis Calama has agreed to postpone former prime minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero’s first appearance as a formal suspect in...
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Sánchez rallies behind Zapatero, calls for ‘respect for the presumption of innocence’

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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has expressed his ‘full support’ for former premier José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, after Spain’s High Court formally placed the veteran...
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Former Spanish PM Zapatero faces corruption probe over airline bailout

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Spain’s former prime minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero has been placed under formal investigation by Spain’s National Court over alleged influence peddling, money laundering and...
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Spanish PM on former king’s memoir: ‘Not one of the books I recommend this Christmas’

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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said on Sunday that he was ‘surprised’ by certain claims made in the newly published memoirs of the exiled and...
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Spanish government to publish a list of Franco-era symbols targeted for removal

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Spain’s left-leaning coalition government plans to release next month an official inventory of monuments and emblems from General Francisco Franco’s dictatorship that are to be...
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Spanish minister Teresa Ribera gets top EU role steering climate transition

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Spain’s current ecological transition minister, Teresa Ribera, was named on Tuesday as executive vice president in the next European Commission, tasked with overseeing the bloc’s...
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Spain & EU pay tribute to victims of terror on 20th anniversary of Madrid train bombings

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Spain and officials from the European Union paid tribute on Monday to the 192 victims of the 11 March 2004 Madrid train bombings that marked...
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Spain’s constitutional court finally rejects abortion law challenge, from 13 years ago

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Spain’s Constitutional Court on Thursday rejected a challenge lodged more than a decade ago by the right-wing People’s Party (PP) against a law allowing abortions...
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