Solana disputes judicial portrait of former PM Zapatero

In the long reckoning that follows political power, courts and colleagues do not always arrive at the same portrait. Javier Solana, one of Europe's most seasoned diplomats, has publicly contested a Spanish judicial report's characterization of former Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, asserting that the man described in the court's findings bears little resemblance to the leader he has known across decades of shared history. The intervention raises a question as old as judgment itself: when institutions and intimates disagree about a person's character, which account carries the deep