US EditionSánchez and Lula Call for Peace as Global Leftist Leaders Gather in Barcelona
The leaders will sign deals on economies, technology and social policy as they press a joint agenda against far-right politics and defend multilateralism.
- On Friday, Brazil President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva began a two-day visit to Barcelona, Spain, joining Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez to convene leaders concerned about rising populist far-right movements.
- Brazil and Spain launched this forum in 2024 to exchange ideas aimed at combating "extremism, polarization and misinformation" that undermines participatory democracy, organizers say.
- European Council President Antonio Costa and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum are among attendees gathering to sign agreements on economies, technology, and social policies while addressing wage inequality.
- "This is not going to be an anti-Trump meeting," Lula told Spanish newspaper on Thursday, though analysts view the gathering as a show of force by "middle powers" seeking new strategies against aggressive superpowers.
- Prime Minister Sánchez recently closed Spanish airspace to U.S. planes involved in the Iran war, while Lula expressed "deep solidarity" with Pope Leo XIV following public criticisms made by Trump.
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Brazilian President back to tone against Donald Trump during meeting in defense of democracy in Barcelona, Spain
The first bilateral summit between Spain and Brazil, which discussed improving cooperation, global issues and supporting progressive policies, was held yesterday in Barcelona.
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Spain and Brazil signed a flurry of agreements at Pedro Sánchez and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s first bilateral summit, as the Spanish leader seeks to build an alliance to counter US President Donald Trump.
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Progressive leaders rally in Barcelona to defend the traditional liberal order
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Progressive and traditional democratic leaders gathered in Barcelona on Saturday to discuss how to restore faith in the liberal order threatened by a world drifting toward far-right extremism and torn by conflict. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, an outspoken critic of President Donald Trump and the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran, is hosting two overlapping events about democracy and progressive politics at a conventi…
Barcelona. Although Donald Trump’s name has not been explicitly mentioned, the two presidents who promoted the conclave of progressive forces from all over the world in Barcelona, Brazilian Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Spanish Pedro Sánchez, expressed their concern at the confrontation, wars and the breakup of multilateralism.” The Spanish president summed it up in a sentence: “While others are opening wounds, we want to close them,” he said in…
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The LocalLeftist leaders gather in Spain to rally against rise of far right
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will head a meeting of leftist leaders on Saturday in Barcelona, seeking to rally against the threat to democracy from the far right.
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