The political and diplomatic friendship between Spain and France could suffer a serious deterioration in the coming weeks. What happens when a country’s Parliament rejects twice the validation of a new friendship treaty with its main neighboring country? That is what could happen in the coming weeks between France and Spain. There is a possibility that the Congress of Deputies will reject for the second time the official ratification of the new treaty of friendship and cooperation with France signed on January 19, 2023, in Montjuïc, under the title Treaty of Barcelona.

Planifica Madrid, the public company of the Community of Madrid that bought the controversial penthouse in Chamberí in April, whose purpose has pursued President Isabel Díaz Ayuso throughout the summer, has not received any offer for the property after putting it up for sale, so it has proposed to declare the corresponding tender void.

The ruling of the EU Court of Justice on the amnesty for the leaders of the procés is the culmination of the growing confrontation between Pedro Sánchez’s Government and the judiciary. The Executive barely hides it anymore and accuses some judges of acting in a twisted manner, driven by political motives. On the other side, magistrates holding positions in high courts and conservative judges’ associations consider themselves attacked in their independence. They even see themselves as the last defenders of the State against a Government they consider populist and capable of fostering the breakup of the State and the degradation of institutions in order to stay in power.