In Europe and NATO, Spain is “swimming against the tide”
The head of the Spanish government, Socialist Pedro Sánchez, refuses to implement NATO commitments regarding military spending. This is just one example of Madrid's isolation on the Western diplomatic scene, according to the press in the Pyrenees.
This detail is anything but trivial for the Spanish media. In the family photo of the leaders of the NATO member countries, meeting in The Hague on June 24 and 25 , Pedro Sánchez stands “slightly apart,” notes Ara . It must be said that the Spanish Prime Minister is “swimming against the tide,” continues the Catalan daily: while a “ reactionary wave ” has swept over the member states of the Alliance and the European Union (EU), the Madrilenian is “now the main socialist leader of the European bloc,” alongside his British counterpart, Labour’s Keir Starmer .
Although other leaders of the Old Continent come from the "social-democratic family", none of them hold a discourse as divergent as that of Sánchez on subjects such as "the rearmament of Europe, the defense of the fight against climate change , the war in Gaza and the government of Benjamin Netanyahu or even immigration", lists Ara, a centrist newspaper.
At the end of the last NATO summit, “Sánchez signed the joint declaration with the thirty-two leaders, but i
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