The two governments have decided not to extend border controls any further. The suspension of the treaty had been decided following the migration crisis in Ceuta. The decision came after a meeting between Meloni and Sánchez last week at the European Council.

The leader of the extremist party Se Acabó la Fiesta acts as an ‘ambassador’ for the Libyan general, travelling between Strasbourg and Madrid. Dinners with his “interpreter”, who is on trial for arms trafficking, and accusations that Italy “always violates the embargo on Libya, unlike Spain”. And he tells Il Foglio what he describes as the “battle for oil between Rome and Madrid” entails.

From Pablo Iglesias’s €600,000 villa to the property portfolio of the PSOE spokesperson’s partner, right through to evictions ordered by a Socialist minister. Spain’s battle against landlords clashes with the property dealings of those leading the campaign

During the Ceuta migration crisis, Rabat is said to have repeatedly violated Spanish territorial waters, coming close to a naval clash. The government remained silent for months and now the Prime Minister is playing down the incident. Meanwhile, Philip VI is visiting the exclaves and Morocco appears keen to facilitate a return to normality ahead of the elections

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 sociologist and director of the Esade Centre for Economic Policy: “We need measures that, in the long term, will enable new homes to be built and, in the short term, will encourage existing properties to enter the rental market. The decrees do not achieve this.”

It is more constructive to protest over rents and classrooms than to chant from the river to the sea. However, care must be taken not to pursue anti-capitalist battles that cast private individuals and their investments as part of the problem rather than part of the solution.