The seppuku of the Japanese samurais (a painful cut in the abdomen with a dagger, dressed in white ritual clothes and writing a farewell poem) was not just any way to take one’s life, but an honorable death to avoid being captured, pay for failure, demonstrate loyalty, bravery, and self-control. It was banned at the end of the 19th century but even if it were not, and despite its romanticism, there is nothing further from the will of British Prime Minister Keir Starmer than to commit harakiri.

The Trump administration has taken a further step in its decision to reduce the number of U.S. troops in Europe and has canceled the deployment of 4,000 soldiers to Poland as part of a more ambitious plan to cut its military presence on the continent.

The Member of the European Parliament from the European People’s Party (EPP), Javier Zarzalejos, chairs the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, from which he oversees regulations such as the Migration and Asylum Pact, which will come into effect in June, or the Returns Regulation, approved by the European Parliament at the end of March. In addition to Europe’s migration policy, the parliamentarian – who is also the director of the FAES Foundation – discusses with La Vanguardia other issues such as the need to protect minors in the digital world, including the regulation of influencers; or the change of government in Hungary.