The interesting aspect of this farce of a trial is that if found guilty, it will probably end up at the European Court of Justice and will expose the EU´s failure to deal with this earlier. There it is just as politically toxic as in Spain. This is a train crash in slow motion – but that best describes the EU as well.
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