Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez seems to have stepped into political quicksand yet again. 

His deals with Catalan and Basque separatists already fueled the rise of a far-right party in Spain, a country whose recent experience with Franco was supposed to render it immune to hardliners. (I reported on this when I visited Barcelona in 2020 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/spain-far-right_n_5e28f82ac5b67d8874ac8893)

Now the center-left Socialist Sánchez is pissing off his leftist allies by making a deal with the right wing of the Catalan separatist movement to give the Catalonia more control over who gets to migrate there. 

https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/puigdemont-and-sanchezs-socialists-formalise-controversial-deal-to-transfer-migration-policy-powers-to-catalonia/

On top of all that, as I reported on my Substack last month, Sánchez's plans to phase out nuclear power are growing more unpopular.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez seems to have stepped into political quicksand yet again. 

His deals with Catalan and Basque separatists already fueled the rise of a far-right party in Spain, a country whose recent experience with Franco was supposed to render it immune to hardliners. (I reported on this when I visited Barcelona in 2020 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/spain-far-right_n_5e28f82ac5b67d8874ac8893)

Now the center-left Socialist Sánchez is pissing off his leftist allies by making a deal with the right wing of the Catalan separatist movement to give the Catalonia more control over who gets to migrate there. 

https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/puigdemont-and-sanchezs-socialists-formalise-controversial-deal-to-transfer-migration-policy-powers-to-catalonia/

On top of all that, as I reported on my Substack last month, Sánchez's plans to phase out nuclear power are growing more unpopular.

https://kaufman.substack.com/p/europes-last-nuclear-phaseout-shows

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