\nFriday, 24 April 2026, 11:37<\/p>\n
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro S\u00e1nchez addressed with “absolute calm” the claim in an internal Pentagon email that the US Department of Defence is considering suspending Spain from Nato. <\/p>\n
Reuters leaked the information early on Friday morning, when S\u00e1nchez was travelling to attend the summit of European leaders in Nicosia, Cyprus. Upon arrival, the prime minister spoke before the media and described Spain as “a good ally” within Nato. S\u00e1nchez stated that his country fulfills all its obligation within the Atlantic Alliance. <\/p>\n
S\u00e1nchez also downplayed the email Reuters leaked. “We don’t work based on emails. We work based on official documents and positions the US government takes,” he stated. He reiterated Spain’s position: “Absolute cooperation with allies, but always within the framework of international law.”<\/p>\n
Previously, US President Donald Trump has heavily criticised S\u00e1nchez for refusing to raise defence spending to five per cent and for not cooperating in the US offensive in Iran.<\/p>\n
S\u00e1nchez said that Spain has forces in Eastern Europe to defent the continent’s territorial integrity. He also stated on Friday that the debate echoes a similar discussion from last year, when Spain said that it could meet its capability objectives within Nato by investing 2.1 per cent of its GDP, not the five per cent Trump demanded.<\/p>\n
This year, as promised, Spain has invested 2.1 per cent of its GDP in military spending. “From our point of view, there is no debate: we are fulfilling our obligations and we are a loyal partner,” S\u00e1nchez said.<\/p>\n
The head of European diplomacy, Kaja Kallas, came to Spain’s defence, assuring that European allies are in constant contact with Washington. “They ask if we can escort ships, clear certain areas of mines… I don’t understand (referring to the information Reuters published) if we are actually responding to their requests,” she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday, 24 April 2026, 11:37 Spanish Prime Minister Pedro S\u00e1nchez addressed with “absolute calm” the claim in an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6726,3393,6722,1276,5084,6728,5457,305,6727,6723,5045,17,528,6725,6724,778],"class_list":{"0":"post-10874","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-absolute","9":"tag-country","10":"tag-faces","11":"tag-from","12":"tag-his","13":"tag-mind","14":"tag-minister","15":"tag-nato","16":"tag-peace","17":"tag-pentagons","18":"tag-prime","19":"tag-spain","20":"tag-spains","21":"tag-suspend","22":"tag-threat","23":"tag-with"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}