Everything now happens through Europe. The stability of the Government in the medium term. The credibility of the opposition. Budget priorities. Defense spending. The booming defense industry. The renewal of the General Council of the Judiciary, a key issue in a country that will continue to see figures from the two major parties sitting on the bench, for quite ugly matters. The pacification of the agrarian protests depends on the European Commission, with possible consequences on the relationship with Morocco depending on the decisions that are adopted. The final legitimation of the amnesty law, architrave of the legislature, will ultimately depend on the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), based in Luxembourg. Europe, Europe. Saint Ursula, pray pro nobis.
We could say that since the Stabilization Plan of 1959, the destiny of Spain has always depended, to one degree or another, on the European Community, but that link, never questioned by Spanish society, now acquires a very specific intensity. It is no longer the economy, with its general lines and regulations. They are no longer subsidies, aid and recovery funds. They are no longer the controls. They are no longer the general frameworks of a European institutional policy that Spain has never rejected. Now we are talking about the transfer of the kitchen of domestic politics to Europe.
The coalition government has negotiated the stability of the legislature with Junts and ERC in Belgium and Switzerland, with the presence of international mediators. The Popular Party uses the presidency of the Petitions Committee of the European Parliament to provoke debates on the maximum number of Spanish issues, before the often astonished gaze of its community colleagues. “A Spanish-Spanish debate,” they often say in Brussels and Strasbourg.
In Brussels, the socialist minister Félix Bolaños and Esteban González Pons, deputy secretary general of the Popular Party, have begun to meet to try to reach an agreement for the renewal of the CGPJ, under the watchful eye of Didier Reynders, European Commissioner for Justice. Future interpretations of the amnesty that Congress will approve this week may depend on the final wording of a report by the Venice Commission, a consultative body of the Council of Europe.
More wood. In Bucharest (Romania), Alberto Núñez Feijóo has just asked Von der Leyen to cut off the trust tap in Pedro Sánchez, to punish him, to leave him without oxygen, to reduce him to ashes during the next European mandate. We will support you to continue presiding over the Commission, but you must cut things off with Sánchez. That was the message that the leader of the Spanish Popular Party conveyed to the candidate who has never been liked by Manfred Weber, president of the European People's Party. Feijóo needs to close the siege and that can only be done from Brussels. Saint Ursula, pray pro nobis.
Sánchez, today at his lowest moment since May 2018, objectively weakened by the Koldo scandal and by the tortuous approval of the amnesty law, does not utter a single word that could seem like a reproach to the president of the Commission. Saint Ursula, refugium peccatorum, ora pro nobis. Josep Borrell, probable PSOE candidate for the European elections in June, has allowed himself some criticism of Von der Leyen for his accentuated support for Israel. Sánchez, who yesterday announced that he plans to shortly propose the recognition of the Palestinian State to the Spanish Parliament, the last thing he will do is criticize it, since both will have to negotiate very important issues in the coming months, once the European elections in June have been held. .
The composition of the future Commission will have to be negotiated, a candidate will have to be found to replace the Belgian liberal Charles Michel as president of the European Council – keep an eye on this vacant position, keep an eye on it – and we are already starting to discuss the Horizon Europe 2025-2027 Strategic Plan. The Sherpas of the respective national governments will soon meet in Brussels to address the definition of this plan, subject to the pressure of a devilish international situation, protectionist demands and the bellicose discourse that speaks of the imminence of a war between Europe and Russia. .
In order not to be isolated after the summer, Sánchez needs to maintain a minimum relationship of trust with Von der Layen. To ensure a smooth re-election, the current president of the Commission will need the support of Sánchez, the most active figure in European social democracy, despite the density and intensity of his domestic problems. Both are needed and perhaps for this reason, Von der Leyen did not make any mention of the amnesty for the Catalan independentists during his speech before the audience of the congress of the European People's Party, which met a few days ago in Bucharest. Weber gave a volcanic speech against Sánchez. Núñez Feijóo asked the candidate for a gesture: he asked her to lower her thumb, and she did not grant it. This is how things stand when there are only three months left until the elections to the European Parliament.
Everything is happening now in Europe and in the presidential elections in the United States, during the first week of November. The world is being redefined, Macron now wants to fight with Russia and today voting is taking place in Portugal, a modest and endearing country that spurred the democratization of Spain in April 1974, fifty years ago, when the course of history prayed pro nobis.
