​Twin corruption trials cast a shadow over Spain’s main parties ahead of key elections

With former ministers and party heavyweights ​b​eing dragged into court, the country is once again confronting the unresolved legacy of political ​g​raft and ​shady backroom deals • Don’t get This Is Europe delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Easter will not have been a particularly celebratory time for Spain’s two biggest political parties. In a quirk of judicial fate, both the ruling Spanish Socialist Workers’ party (PSOE) and the conservative People’s party (PP) are bracing themselves af...

By Sam Jones Madrid correspondent