I am old enough to remember the days when Angela Merkel was “Europe’s real leader,” the leader of the free world, and so on. And all this was as she made mistake after mistake, mistakes obvious in real time to anyone paying attention. But, despite some crazy talk that she could now act as a mediator between Russia and Ukraine, she’s history.

Not so Pedro Sánchez, Spain’s hard-left prime minister, currently being proclaimed by Europe’s bien-pensants as the continent’s new new “real leader,” based mainly on his opposition to Donald Trump and his fondness for online censorship. Sánchez has been busy of late, throwing open Spain’s doors to (resident) illegal aliens, and calling for a European army despite Spain’s long history of freeloading off NATO.

But wait, what’s this?

Controversy involving the alleged use of EU funds to top up shortfalls in pensions has sparked a major debate in Spain. The Spanish Court of Auditors revealed last week a series of “budget modifications” which included the use of €2.4 billion in........

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