Tag: Pedro Sanchez

Barcelona’s Rep Jeopardized by Payments to Former Referee

BARCELONA, Spain—Barcelona, the team that once awed the soccer world with its beautiful style on the field and its social commitment to being “more than a club,” is in danger of tarnishing its reputation with a scandal of its own making. Although the club denies doing anything wrong, a Spanish state prosecutor is probing Barcelona’s…


Spanish PM Calls for Debate on Treating COVID-19 as Endemic

MADRID—Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez says that amid falling lethality rates for COVID-19, Spain wants European officials to consider whether to move away from the detailed tracking that the pandemic has required until now to a flu-like monitoring system. The change would mean treating COVID-19 as an “endemic illness” rather than a pandemic, Sánchez said…


Spanish PM Sanchez Remodels Cabinet to Focus on Economy

MADRID—Spain’s prime minister overhauled his Cabinet on Saturday, forming what he called “the government of the recovery” following the coronavirus pandemic. Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has led a minority coalition government formed by his Socialist Party and the United We Can party since January 2020. He has managed to keep it afloat during the pandemic…


Morocco’s Action in Illegal Immigrant Crisis Was Unacceptable: Spanish Prime Minister

MADRID—Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez described Morocco’s actions during a crisis two weeks ago when thousands of illegal immigrants crossed into Spain’s north African enclave of Ceuta as unacceptable and an assault on national borders. Asked at a news conference on Monday about comments by the Moroccan foreign minister, who linked the immigrant crisis to…