{"id":56652,"date":"2026-07-17T19:00:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T19:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/56652\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T19:00:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T19:00:25","slug":"spains-sanchez-to-attend-fifa-world-cup-final-alongside-trump-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/56652\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain\u2019s S\u00e1nchez to attend FIFA World Cup final alongside Trump \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

S\u00e1nchez\u2019s government has also refused to raise defense spending to 5 percent of GDP, a target other NATO allies adopted<\/a> last year at Trump\u2019s urging. During July\u2019s NATO summit in Ankara, the U.S. president briefly threatened<\/a> to cut off all trade with Spain, calling the country \u201ca wasted cause.\u201d He appeared<\/a> to walk back the warning a day later.<\/p>\n

Emphasizing the brevity of the World Cup visit, the spokesperson additionally told POLITICO that it was highly unlikely that S\u00e1nchez would hold bilateral meetings with U.S. officials on the sidelines of the match.<\/p>\n

S\u00e1nchez\u2019s attendance at the final had been in doubt because of a trip to Algeria scheduled the following day, but the spokesperson confirmed that the prime minister would depart following the match. He already skipped Tuesday\u2019s semifinal against France to attend Bastille Day celebrations and meet with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris.<\/p>\n

Argentine President Javier Milei, whose national team will face Spain in the final, will be absent<\/a> from the game because of superstition. The Spanish prime minister has poor relations with Milei<\/a>, who has publicly attacked both S\u00e1nchez and his wife on multiple occasions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"S\u00e1nchez\u2019s government has also refused to raise defense spending to 5 percent of GDP, a target other NATO…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6595,4027,2367,194,4273,205,17,314,26],"class_list":["post-56652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-2026-fifa-world-cup","tag-argentina","tag-diplomacy","tag-donald-trump","tag-javier-milei","tag-pedro-sanchez","tag-spain","tag-sport","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56652","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=56652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}