Sánchez takes distance from Europe's warlike momentum and opts for caution with defense spending

Spain maintains a low profile in the international summits that already address the deployment of troops in Ukraine and cools the increase in the defense budget to 2% of GDPSánchez assures that Europe faces a time “like Covid” and announces a National Defense Plan Just the week in which Europe takes another march in the war rhetoric that surrounds international politics, Spain puts the brakes on. Pedro Sánchez’s government openly takes off some …

He is our senior diplomat in NATO and one of the most influential in the structures of multilateral power. Javier Colomina (Madrid, 1974) joined the Alliance in 2017 as a permanent deputy representative of Spain, arrived as Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Security Affairs and Policy in 2021 and is, since last year, the special representative of the Secretary General for the South Neighborhood. Now, the potential strategic and military ret…

If we suppose a nominal GDP growth of 5%, to generate growth of 2.5% in real terms, with inflation of 2.5%, in 2025...

NATO clarified on Friday that its Secretary General, Mark Rutte, only referred to Spain's "desire" to allocate a defense budget of 2% of GDP "as soon as possible", in a statement made this week and which prompted the Spanish government to clarify that it had not made any concrete commitment in this regard, reports the EFE agency.

NATO said on Friday that its Secretary General, Mark Rutte, had only referred to Spain's "desire" to allocate a 2% of GDP budget to defense "as soon as possible" in a statement made this week.

Gamarra claims that the disagreement with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte "proves" that the president "has a pathological relationship with lies"