The Diplomat
The president of the People’s Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, described on Wednesday as “unjustifiable” that the Government has not yet informed the opposition about the position it will defend at the extraordinary European Council this Thursday and recalled that President Pedro Sánchez lacks “sufficient majority to assume any international commitment”.
“It is unjustifiable that we lack any information about what Spain is going to defend at the European Council”, declared Feijóo during the Faconauto 2025 Congress, held at the Municipal Palace of Congresses in Madrid.
“I remind you that the current Government does not have a sufficient majority and cannot assume any international commitment”, he continued. “The reality is that nobody knows where the Government is going, with what allies or with what resources it has”, he added.
The President of the European Council, Antonio Costa, has called for an extraordinary meeting of EU heads of state and government on Thursday to address European defence and the situation in Ukraine following the radical change of course of the United States. The objective, he specified in a letter, is “to take the first short-term decisions, so that Europe is more sovereign, more capable and better equipped to face the immediate and future challenges to its security.”
Meanwhile, following the decision of the American president, Donald Trump, to suspend military aid to Ukraine, the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, announced on Tuesday the ReARM Europe plan, an initiative to significantly increase defence spending through a new financial instrument that will mobilise up to 150 billion euros in loans and could reach a total investment of 800 billion euros.
In this regard, Pedro Sánchez has sent a letter to Von der Leyen, in which he explains “the Spanish vision on the approach that Europe should take to security and the future European Defence Union”, which includes, among other proposals, “the mobilisation of genuine European financing in the next budgetary cycle”, a joint debt system similar to that adopted after COVID-19, the relaxation of national fiscal rules, the involvement of the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the attraction of private investment.
