The State will further restrict the practice of surrogacy. How? By making it difficult for babies born via this method in another country to be registered as their own children, because the practice is illegal in Spain. Pedro Sánchez's government has finalized a new instruction that will create more bureaucratic obstacles for "intended parents" to prevent them from "circumventing" the law: the new order invalidates foreign certificates, rulings from international judicial authorities, and any other declaration accompanied by medical documentation for registering minors in Spain. Thus, the Spanish Civil Registry will not accept any of these documents. "Without exceptions," the instruction states.

They are queuing at the station in the Polish city of Przemysl, just ten kilometres from the Ukrainian border, to catch a train that will take them to a place few would want to go now: Ukraine. At first glance they look like an ordinary couple. That is why it is striking that they are there, among dozens of refugees and peculiar characters who want to join the war.