Spain needs reforms, Europe is pushing in that direction and Sánchez is running out of time.

But there is something even worse than doing nothing or dragging your feet, and that is

walking in the opposite direction that the EU demands.

Many of its demands collide with the ideological heterodoxy of Moncloa's radical coalition.

When Sánchez decided to hug Iglesias to save his position, we warned him that this Faustian pact would have consequences.

The pandemic accelerated the arrival of the bill

, our economy accumulates a debt of 120% of GDP and the creditor grows impatient.

Sánchez must now come out of his immobility so that his government is not seen as Europe's problem.

But beyond the ambitious economic reforms that Spain urgently needs -especially one that guarantees the sustainability of pensions-,

for the democratic health of the country, none is comparable to the shielding of the separation of powers

.

And it is up to the Judiciary to ensure that nuclear principle of democracy.

That is why it is so sad that it has had to be the pressure from Brussels - after receiving a letter signed by 2,500 Spanish judges who requested protection from the European institutions for the government harassment of their independence - that has managed to make Sánchez finally withdraw his attempt Bolivarian political control of Justice, extrapolating the majority Frankenstein to the CGPJ.

That was the response that occurred to him in the face of the PP's refusal to flatter the CGPJ appointments, swallowing all the conditions of the PSOE, including names famous for their sectarianism.

A serious government, like the one that Gabilondo is promising in Madrid,

sits down to discuss with the PP on how to better address the Brussels recommendations

;

he does not devise an infamous plan B to subject the judges from Moncloa to the illiberal style, the same style that motivated the implementation of European sanctions against Hungary and Poland.

Someone who knows that story very well is the EU Justice Commissioner, who in an interview with EL MUNDO states:

"The withdrawal of the reform of the CGPJ is good news, but it is not enough."

In statements of unprecedented forcefulness, Commissioner Reynders urges the Government and the opposition to "return to the table and agree" on the renewal of the CGPJ, but in the sense that first Citizens and then the most lucid Casado have been demanding: Reynolds asks that the least 50% of the magistrates are "elected by their peers."

This newspaper has been clamoring for the depoliticization of Justice for years.

Now the EU is very clearly pointing the way to Sánchez.

That it should be aware of the cost of its authoritarian temptations in the middle of the German pre-electoral context and with the member states pending the good use that the most indebted countries give to European money.

It is not just that PSOE and PP sit down to negotiate another handful of names that came off the party finger after 4-M:

it is about negotiating steps towards structural reform that empowers judges

against the interference of politicians.

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