Spain’s domestic political deadlock over judicial reform, including the replacement of four of the twelve judges of the Constitutional Court whose terms expired in June, dominated discussions in the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties on Thursday 12 January, when the discussions were supposed to focus on the general state of the rule of law in Spain.
The Spanish Minister of Justice, Pilar Llop Cuenca, and MEPs of Spanish origin, including those from the Partido Popular...