The Diplomat
The President of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, yesterday concluded a visit to Sweden, where he was received by the country’s Prime Minister, the conservative Ulf Kristersson, whose country holds the Presidency of the European Union for this six-month period, which will be taken over by Spain on 1 July.
At their meeting on Tuesday, Feijóo and Kristersson analysed the political situation in the two countries and in the European Union, and at the end of the meeting the PP leader said that they had agreed on “the need to strengthen alliances in security and defence matters”, for which he expressed his support for Sweden’s entry into NATO and the defence of Ukrainian freedoms in the face of the Russian invasion.
They also discussed the changeover in the EU Presidency, and Feijóo took the opportunity to express his criticism of what he considers to be a lack of information from Pedro Sánchez’s government on the priorities it has set for the second half of the year. “We need to know the contents of the Spanish presidency. We need transparency about what the objectives and priorities are, and unfortunately, for the moment, we have no information from the Spanish government. And the truth is that the background is not good because the government has not given the PP any information about its erratic foreign policy, for example, in its relations with Morocco or Algeria,” Feijóo insisted.
For this reason, the leader of the PP asked Sánchez to agree on the main lines of the six-month Spanish presidency, to inform the opposition and to reach a consensus with it on the major issues on the European agenda, in addition to informing the Congress of Deputies.
Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who also met on this trip with the Swedish Minister for the EU, Jessika Roswall, and with the Secretary General of the Moderate Party, Karim Enström, reiterated his criticisms of the Executive yesterday from Stockholm. “I have more information from the Swedish presidency of the EU than from the Spanish presidency,” he ironised.
