The flood of ongoing legal cases against the political and family environment of Pedro Sánchez – from his wife, Begoña Gómez, and his brother, David Sánchez, to the former president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, and the last two secretaries of organization of the PSOE, the former minister José Luis Ábalos and Santos Cerdán – keeps all Government action overshadowed and increases political pressure from both the opposition and the partners and allies of the investiture. But the head of the Executive insists on contrasting his management with the political, media, and judicial “noise” in which he is increasingly involved. He already argued last Wednesday from Rome, after meeting with the Pope, that this whole succession of open investigations, in his opinion, “does not at all challenge” the Government’s action in these eight years of mandate, which he also intends to push forward until the legislature is exhausted.

Spain has a certain tendency towards atypical borders. The municipality of Llívia or the border by turns — six months French, six Spanish — of the Island of the Pheasants, between Irún and Hendaye are two good examples. In this line, Spanish geography has the curious honor of hosting the shortest border in the world. It is barely 85 meters of sand that separate Spain and Morocco on African land due to the Spanish possession of the Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera.