Sánchez Calls for EU Army “Under a Single Flag”

In La Moncloa they did not come out of their astonishment. Mark Rutte, NATO general secretary, threw himself in full on Wednesday to a swimming pool where there does not seem to be water: “Spain wants to reach 2% [of defense spending] this summer.” All the machinery of the government was set in motion to disauthorize it and demand a reverse. According to sources of the executive, Pedro Sanchez even wrote a message directly to the former prime mi…

He wants it all. And all at the same time and at the worst moment of his term. He wants the rearmament of Europe, but not to be called rearmament. He wants to increase spending on Defense – that Ministry that was going to eliminate from a plummet – but moving budget lines and twisting the concept of National Security. He wants exceptionally to redirect public investments, but without subtracting a single euro from social spending.

Pedro Sánchez annonce un plan de renforcement de l'industrie militaire en Espagne

Pedro Sánchez, président du gouvernement espagnol, a annoncé la présentation d'un plan visant à renforcer l'indu...

MADRID, 28 (EUROPA PRESS) The president of the government, Pedro Sánchez, has started this Friday a round of contacts with companies from different sectors related to defense to plan from the industrial field the increase of military spending in Spain, an agenda that will be extended next week with two other meetings of the same [...] La entrada Sánchez initiates a round of contacts with companies to plan the increase of military spending in Spa…

The plenary session in which the Spanish president outlined the reasons why he defended the increase in military spending in the framework of the general effort to rearm the EU and launched some proposals of his own have attracted the attention of many international media. In particular, the proposal by Sánchez to create a European army, which The Times describes as "quimer politics" and the national plan to boost the Spanish military industry, …

“We are not resigned to rearmament and war in Europe”: PBI-Spanish State and nearly 850 organizations - Peace Brigades International-Canada

Photo: The statement was announced on Wednesday March 26 on the steps of the Spanish Parliament in Madrid as Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced his intention to accelerate the country’s military spending. Peace Brigade International-Spanish State, along with nearly 850 organizations and 16,000 individuals, has signed this letter that opposes the European Commission plan to