MTV: Purra believes NATO's defense spending target will rise to 3–3.5 percent

NATO's current defense spending target is two percent of GDP. According to Purra, the government should outline an increase in defense spending as early as the April midterm elections.

In a very harsh tone, accusing the president of the government even of sliding Spain towards an “autocracy”, the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has this Thursday removed the possibilities of an agreement with his party on the increase in defense spending, although the PP shares that it is necessary to increase it, even to 3% of GDP.

Alberto Núñez Feijóo is clear: «Europe has to rearm itself and Spain must do it too». This is the principal idea that the opposition leader and president of the Popular Party (PP) has conveyed to Pedro Sánchez at the meeting of just thirty minutes that both have held this Thursday morning at the Palacio de La Moncloa and from which Feijóo has come out with the feeling that the president of the government has simply wanted to «dispatch the first …

Alberto Núñez Feijóo has left La Moncloa just as he came in: not knowing what the government wants to do to raise spending on...

Podemos’s secretary general, Ione Belarra, has transferred the government president, Pedro Sánchez, his frontal opposition to the increase in defense spending and has denounced that it is “impossible” to do so without cuts to social spending, both now and in the future, which means taking the legislature to a critical point. Belarra, who has come to Moncloa with a T-shirt with the slogan ‘No to war’ for his appointment with Sanchez, has left the…

If Pedro Sánchez thought he was going to get out of his round of meetings with parliamentary spokesmen, he was wrong. If his advisors suggested that he would be able to convince those who oppose him in a short half hour, then they deceived him. Is there a new purge coming? Alberto Núñez Feijóo was the first to come. After the meeting, he pointed out that Sánchez had not offered him any information. «He has no plan.» In addition, he criticized th…