Investigating magistrate Beatriz Biedma, who has committed the Prime Minister’s brother to stand trial, has joined the proceedings as a civil party in the investigation into the ‘scandal’ surrounding the Spanish Socialist Party. Meanwhile, rumours are beginning to circulate in Madrid about a possible candidacy for Begoña Gomez in the general election on 29 November

The Socialist leader offers an original interpretation of the Constitution, stating that whilst awaiting a new Parliament, it is right for the government to provide answers to the public. However, he glosses over the second decree, and the first turns out to be decidedly more centrist than previously announced. Meanwhile, the Spanish Supreme Court has revoked the arrest warrant for Carles Puigdemont, the Catalan independence leader who has been on the run in Belgium for years.

The new elections are scheduled for 29 November. It will be a tough fight for the President’s party: the latest polls suggest that the combined votes for the PP and Vox will secure an absolute majority of seats

Pedro Sánchez has resigned and announced snap elections. He admitted that the government had “made mistakes” and had not achieved all its stated objectives. The trigger was the rejection, last Friday in Parliament, of the two housing decrees

Expropriations in Germany, eviction freezes in Spain. Italy is focusing on supply, but over 100,000 homes are not enough

The two decrees on the eviction moratorium and the freeze on property funds – introduced following the Maricarmen case – have been rejected by the Popular Party, Vox and Junts. The Spanish Prime Minister could now dissolve Parliament at the Council of Ministers. In that case, snap elections could be held on 29 November.

Between 2015 and 2025, buying a home in Spain has become 80 per cent more expensive, whilst renting has risen by 87 per cent. According to the Central Bank, the shortage of supply is the main factor behind these difficulties

The case of the 87-year-old woman evicted has become the pretext for Sánchez’s decrees, which freeze evictions and renew tenancy agreements until 2030. Economist Diego Sánchez de la Cruz tells Il Foglio: “A populist and manipulative campaign.” And he warns: rent controls risk exacerbating the Spanish housing crisis.

Madrid and Benghazi had stopped talking to each other, but now the Libyan general has offered to mediate with the terrorists who have kidnapped Juan Mirales Gomez in Burkina Faso.

The Ministry of the Interior, led since 2018 by former magistrate Fernando Grande-Marlaska, had been systematically compiling files on journalists, complete with passport photos and everything, including a definition of their (alleged) political ideology. The scoop by the daily newspaper Confidencial and the resistance amongst ministry officials