High unemployment rates and the cost of living make up an explosive mix that gives the People’s Party the lead, the Financial Times notes in its report. “Sanchez is facing the most difficult year since he took office four years ago,” says Luciá Méndez, one of the founders of El Mundo. Polls give the conservative […]
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Soltz and Sanchez agree on connecting the Iberian Peninsula to the European energy grid
The chancellor Olaf Solz and the prime minister of Spain Pedro Sanchez were in favor of the connection of the Iberian Peninsula with the European electricity and natural gas network. “If there was this line, we could cover 30% of Europe’s liquefied natural gas needs,” said Mr Sanchez, who was attending the federal cabinet meeting […]
Spain: Sanchez wants a natural gas pipeline to connect Iberia with Central Europe
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez today backed the construction of a pipeline linking the Iberian Peninsula to central Europe via France that could help reduce the region’s dependence on Russian gas. The construction of a pipeline that would pass through the Pyrenees “is something that the Spanish government has been asking for from Europe for […]
Sanchez: Spain supports Serbia on the Kosovo issue
The Prime Minister of Spain, Pedro Sanchez, expressed his country’s full support to Serbia on the issue of Kosovo. During his meeting in Belgrade with the president of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, Pedro Sanchez pointed out that “the bonds of friendship between Spain and Serbia are based on the common position on the need to respect […]
Spain: Tremors in the government camp after the increase in military spending
The release of nearly one billion euros for Spain’s armed forces has sparked tensions in the Spanish government between the Socialists and their leftist partners who are opposed to a defense budget increase promised by Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez to NATO. Hosting last week’s summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Madrid pledged, like the […]
Spain: The government announced a new reduction of VAT on electricity
The Spanish government today announced a new reduction in VAT on electricity, to 5%, in order to reduce the effects of inflation, which has reached record levels, fueled by the war in Ukraine. “A year ago we reduced the VAT on electricity from 21% to 10%. In the next cabinet we will reduce it from […]
Spain: Sanchez announces intelligence reform
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez today announced a reform of the law governing the operation of the intelligence services, with the main aim of “strengthening judicial control”, following a scandalous espionage scandal. “This is to strengthen the guarantees of this control, but also to ensure maximum respect for the individual and political rights of the […]
K. Mitsotakis: We are launching strategic investments for the transformation of the country into an energy gateway
The Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis participated tonight, in the context of the World Economic Forum in Davos, in a dinner on the challenges facing Europe today and the global role of the European Union, in the landscape that is being formed after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The Prime Minister, together with the President of […]
Sanchez: Spain and Southern Europe have a chance to respond to energy dependence on Russia
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has said his country – and southern Europe at large – could respond to Russia’s lack of gas supplies as the region seeks to strengthen sanctions against Moscow. “Spain and, I would say, southern Europe will have a chance to give an answer to this energy dependence on Russia,” Sanchez […]
Spain: Sanchez vows to ‘account’ for Catalan separatist leaders’ surveillance with Pegasus
The Spanish prime minister has vowed before parliament today that he will be “accountable” for the alleged espionage scandal against Catalan separatist leaders that threatens his minority government. “We will be held accountable,” said the Socialist leader, who spoke on the issue for the first time since a Canadian report on spying on more than […]