The new European electoral law requires countries with more than 35 MEPs, like Spain, to establish a minimum threshold of 2% to 5% of votes to be allocated seats in European elections. Spain is the only EU Member State that has not incorporated this European electoral reform into its legislation, despite Pedro Sánchez’s debut as Spanish President and member of the European Council in June 2018, where he approved this…

Today, President Pedro Sánchez will break with the principle maintained by all Spanish governments to protect Social Security from nationalist demands for its fragmentation. In the meeting starting at 5:30 PM in La Moncloa, delegations led by Sánchez and the Basque Lehendakari, Imanol Pradales, will address the transfer of unemployment benefit and unemployment subsidy payments. This executive capacity will mean that the 29,335 Basques receiving unemployment benefits, plus the 14,472…