A report from the State Society of Industrial Participations (SEPI) concludes that the bailout of the airline Plus Ultra was “legal and transparent.” SEPI issues this study in response to the suspicions of the National Court judge José Luis Calama, who is investigating the Zapatero case and believes that this bailout was not lawful. In the order issued by the magistrate, it is considered that Plus Ultra was in a state of bankruptcy at the time of the bailout. Consequently, the government of Pedro Sánchez could not save it since the applicable European law at that time, March 2021, strictly prohibited rescuing companies in dissolution.

The Partido Popular multiplied itself yesterday on all fronts to elevate the migration debate in Ceuta to the level of a state crisis. From the coast of Lugo to the border perimeter of the autonomous city, the opposition leadership coordinated its discourse to accuse Pedro Sánchez’s government of violating territorial integrity and to demand a structural shift that returns direct control of its borders to the Spanish institutions, moving the discussion from mere emergency management to a comprehensive questioning of the diplomatic strategy in North Africa.

The new migration crisis unleashed in Ceuta, for which the president of this autonomous city, Juan Jesús Vivas, raised the alarm this Thursday, has immediately turned many eyes towards the authorities of Morocco, after Pedro Sánchez restored political and commercial relations with Algeria last week with his visit to President Abdelmayid Tebun, which marked the end of the 2022 diplomatic clash following the Spanish leader’s shift on the Western Sahara issue.