{"id":211141,"date":"2026-05-19T09:49:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T09:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/spanish-ex-pm-zapatero-under-investigation-for-alleged-influence-peddling-court-says\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T09:49:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T09:49:02","slug":"spanish-ex-pm-zapatero-under-investigation-for-alleged-influence-peddling-court-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/spanish-ex-pm-zapatero-under-investigation-for-alleged-influence-peddling-court-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish ex-PM Zapatero under investigation for alleged influence peddling, court says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the first time that a former Spanish prime minister has been placed under formal investigation since the country returned to democracy following the death of longtime dictator Francisco Franco in 1975.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/05\/19\/spanish-ex-pm-zapatero-under-investigation-for-alleged-influence-peddling-court-says\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the first time that a former Spanish prime minister has been placed under formal investigation since the country returned to democracy following the death of longtime dictator Francisco Franco in 1975. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":211142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}