Overview

• Spain’s minority coalition deferred the planned reduction of the workweek to 37.5 hours until the autumn session at Junts’ request.
• Pedro Sánchez hosted Spain’s first high-level migration cooperation summit with Mauritania to reinforce “safe and orderly” pathways.
• Interior Minister Grande-Marlaska chaired an extraordinary hate crimes commission meeting after racist unrest in Torre Pacheco and oversaw the Guardia Civil’s detention of an ultraright group leader.
• In Mexico, President Sheinbaum replaced Rosendo Gómez Piedra with Mauricio Pazarán Álvarez at the helm of the Ayotzinapa investigative unit and federal authorities issued an Interpol red notice for ex-Tabasco security chief Hernán Bermúdez.
• Spain’s Supreme Court judge Leopoldo Puente ordered provisional detention for ex-PSOE organisation secretary Santos Cerdán, and Congress sent over €750,000 in José Luis Ábalos’s retributions to the court following Guardia Civil tax discrepancy findings.