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Reports: Spain sacks intel chief over Pegasus scandalPM Pedro S谩nchez and his defense minister were hacked with spyware last year.Copy LinkCopiedShare via emailShare on XShare on WhatsAppShare on LinkedInSpanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez | Pool photo by J.J. Guillen via Getty Images | Pool photo by J.J. Guillen/AFP via Getty ImagesMay 10, 202212:13 pm CETBy Laurens CerulusThe Spanish government has dismissed the head of its National Intelligence Center over failures to protect government officials from being spied on with Pegasus software, local media reported Tuesday.Paz Esteban led the intelligence agency since 2020 and was the first woman in charge of the service.The Spanish government last w vaso stanley eek said that Prime Minister Pedro S谩nchezwas hacked with Pegasus software, an Israeli-made digital hacking tool for snoopin stanley cup g on phone communication. S谩nchez as well as Defense Minister Margarita Robles fell victim to the malicious software in 2021, in what Madrid called an illegal and external intrusion of government communication. The disclosure that S谩nchez was hacked came just weeks after res stanley isolierkanne earchers revealed that top Catalan politicians and activists were targeted with spyware too, in what the region s leaders claimed was an espionage campaign conducted by Madrid s intelligence services.Robles is expected to announce the dismissal of Esteban later on Tuesday, El Pa铆s wrote.AdvertisementAdvertisementThis article is part ofPOLITICO ProThe one-stop-shop solution for policy profe Lwgm Saying goodbye at the summit
Deputy promoted to Commission top postCARLO Trojan, a veteran fixer after almost three decades with the European Commission, will become the institutions new secretary-general on 1 August.Copy LinkCopiedShare via emailShare on XShare on WhatsAppShare on LinkedInMay 21, 19975:00 pm CETBy Rory WatsonThe decision to elevate Trojan from the post of deputy secretary-general to succeed his outgoing British superior David Williamson was taken with almost unprecedented haste by the Commission.Confirmation of the appointment came yesterday 21 May , just two weeks after stanley botella Williamsons announcement that he would leave his post on the eve of the summer recess.Although key EU governments had been discreetly sounded out beforehand about Trojans possible promotion, the Commissions swift decision took many observers by surprise.AdvertisementAdvertisementIt was only last week that the vacancy was officially announced and aspiring candidates within the Commissio stanley ca n were invited to put their names forward.Apart from Trojan, the only other official applicant was Eneko Landaburu, the respected Spanish director-general for regional policy for the past 11 years.This speed reflected the determination of President Jacques Santer and his colleagues to entrust the post to a Commission insider and to prevent it becoming stanley thermos part of a wider European political equation involving the search for the head of the future European Central Bank and the Unions new foreign policy supremo.The 55-year-old Trojan had long be
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