Spain News Update – November 20,2025

UEFA approves Barcelona’s Camp nou return,endangered white rhino born at Valencia zoo,and more news from Spain on Thursday November 20th.

Spain releases ex-ally of PM implicated in graft probe

Spain’s Supreme Court on Wednesday November 19th, released from jail a former top Socialist official and close ally of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez who is under examination for alleged corruption.

The suspicions against Santos Cerdán have exacerbated a series of graft investigations against Sánchez’s former inner circle and relatives that have threatened to topple the fragile government.

Cerdán is implicated in a complicated affair involving alleged kickbacks in exchange for public contracts, wich saw him provisionally detained in June.

The investigating judge ordered Cerdán’s release considering that the risk of destruction of evidence that justified his imprisonment had been “seriously mitigated”, the Supreme Court said in a statement.

Cerdán will have to appear before court every 15 days and cannot leave the country, with the judge ordering the confiscation of his passport.

UEFA approves Barcelona’s Camp Nou return in Champions League

UEFA has given Barcelona the go-ahead to play Champions League matches at their partially rebuilt Camp Nou stadium, the La Liga giants said.

The news comes just a couple of days after Barça announced their long-awaited return to league action at the stadium, which had been beset by construction chaos, after months of playing at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys.