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Spain's Sanchez swerves ally's questions in parliament over graft case
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez declined on Wednesday to say whether his name could crop up in a corruption ...
Spain reaches deal with NATO ahead of summit to be excluded from 5% defense spending goal
Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez says that Spain reached a deal with NATO to be excluded from a 5% of GDP defense spending target ...
NATO agrees to higher defence spending goal, Spain says it is opting out
NATO members agreed to a big increase in their defence spending target to 5% of gross domestic product, as demanded by ...
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NATO strikes deal on defense, with Spain risking ire of Washington
NATO has signed off on a pledge to ramp up defense spending before its upcoming summit, but Madrid insisted it would not need ...
Sanchez Puts NATO’s Trump Plan at Risk by Opposing 5% Goal
The problems piling up for Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez in Spain are threatening to spill into next week’s NATO summit, with ...
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Corruption at the heart of his party wounds Spain’s prime minister
The police report accused Santos Cerdán, a senior party official, of “managing” at least €620,000 in bribes on public-works ...
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Sánchez's agreement with Rutte for Spain to have its own military spending path threatens NATO unity: "Unfair to other countries"
The pact, which according to the Prime Minister allows Spain to only spend 2.1% on Defense, opens the door for nations like ...
Spain’s PM Pedro Sánchez rejects NATO's 5% of GDP spending plan as 'unreasonable'
Spain was the lowest spender in the trans-Atlantic alliance last year, directing less than 2% of its GDP on defence ...
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Spain's embattled PM Sánchez defies clamour for resignation
Paco Camas, head of public opinion in Spain for polling firm Ipsos, sees a Sánchez resignation as "political suicide" for his party, because it would almost certainly trigger elections ...
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Spain's Sanchez swerves ally's questions in parliament over graft case
FILE PHOTO: Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, who is also a leader of the Socialist ruling party (PSOE), holds a press conference after a senior official of the Spain's Socialists Party Santos ...
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Spain Is Right to Reject Increased Military Spending
Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, has broken ranks with other NATO leaders as he refused to commit to spending 5 percent ...
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Sánchez Regains Partners’ Support by Confronting Trump and Refusing to Raise Defense Spending to 5%… by 2035
Who knows where Pedro Sánchez might be in 2035? In La Moncloa (the Prime Minister's official residence)? In Europe? In jail, given the way things are going in ...