Spain’s Pedro Sánchez, main critic of Trump in Europe, calls snap elections

What the coverage shows

Both outlets frame the story around Pedro Sánchez’s decision to call snap elections and treat it as a high-stakes move for him and the European left. The Washington Post foregrounds Sánchez as “main critic of Trump in Europe” and emphasizes the risk of defeat for his socialist party, while The Economist presents the move as a gamble and, in its extract, uniquely highlights “populist policies” and a “last stand for the European left.”

Written by Crossfiled from the 3 headlines and extracts below, not from the articles themselves. It describes how the outlets framed this, not what happened. Open any headline for a summary of that article.