Spain told European allies it would spend more on defense, faster. Back home, it’s a harder sell

Spain told European allies it would spend more on defense, faster. Back home, it's a harder sell

Spain's prime minister has tried to assure European allies that his country is willing to spend more on defense as the continent scrambles to rearm.

Sánchez fails to convince center-right opposition and the far-left on plan to increase defence spending

It will be “very difficult” to reach an agreement with Sánchez, said the Conservative leader.

Spanish prime minister fails to find support for defense spending increase

Pedro Sanchez’s pledge to advance defense spending while maintaining social policies has raised immediate concerns, says local media - Anadolu Ajansı

The president of the government, Pedro Sánchez, has opened for the first time the doors of La Moncloa to EH Bildu. He has done so in the round of talks that he is holding to...

The Government is still not aware of approving new State budgets, just one year after it renounced those of 2024, and, while insisting that it will continue to try, the debate on the increase in defence spending makes it even more difficult for it to succeed. Read

How will Spain invest more in Defense? This is the big question. In the last week, the coalition government, its parliamentary partners and opposition parties have taken positions, some in a rather ambiguous way, on the budget increase, without going into the mechanisms or formulas to increase investment. Statements by ministers, parliamentary spokespersons and the government president himself point the way, but do not clear the doubts. From the…