A plan to be done, in Spain and in Europe | Spain

It is not possible that the president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, present a security and defense plan in Congress Because he doesn’t have it. Nor the European Union (EU). The debate It is in full effervescence in the capitals of the continent And it is still far from having a common position that can be discussed in Brussels. At the moment, there are initiatives, which are given relevance, from Paris and Londonthat gather the leaders of the world, beyond those of the EU, united to maintain the defense of Ukraine against Russia as a symbol of the danger that Vladimir Putin represents for all for all. There is the determination and political will of Europe – always with the proviso of Hungary and Slovakia, for its affinity with Russia, but also with Donald Trump – to do the impossible to stand up a European defense project that carries with it the deterrence and strategic autonomy.

Much to do, even in full storm of unilateral initiatives, not in common, but with the inalienable decision to achieve self -sufficient Europe in defense and security, With or without Trumpaccording to the only clear conclusions that leave each formal or informal meeting and the statements of principles of European leaders. Spain first, but not only this country, has to negotiate with the rest of the European partners, and, on the other hand, with NATO. The latest skames have shown that they do not have the same line of interest, according to different government and parliamentary sources. While in the political conversation in the European capitals, the hypothesis that NATO becomes a different institution is introduced, if the United States remains against the interests of the international order born almost 80 years ago, its secretary general, Mark Rutte, squeezes so that its members accelerate its defense budgets.

This last week, the government pressed and achieved from the Atlantic organization that denied an alleged commitment of Spain of Take up to 2% of GDP The defense spending this summer. The White Defense Paper is not the action guide, although the figure of 43,000 million euros of military budget points. The most elaborate project for the creation of a European arms industry is in the EU Parliament and has received more than 1,500 amendments in a few days.

It remains to be seen if at the June NATO summit, the great international event that everyone looks at as immediate horizon, the criteria unit among Europeans or links essentially with the United States. Sánchez will have a quarter of enormous complexity in its eagerness to expand the concept of defense for expenditure and not reduce everything to armament purchases. Apparently, the president is more concerned with external difficulties, which will result directly in Spain, than by the strong opposition of the PP, on the one hand, and on their left, on the other. Soon, the chained presentation of parliamentary initiatives of the PP – non -law propositions, interpellations, motions – without practical but demonstrative consequences of the lack of majority of the government will be attended. With that arsenal, the PP can perfectly demand from the president to dissolve the Courts and summon elections, as this Sunday reiterated the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, in The closure of his interparliamentary conference in Seville. In the debate panels of the popular there were none about defense and security.

Spanish is one of the main forces of the European Popular Party (PPE) so it has the entire information of the intense debate of its homonyms in Europe, even far from any resolution. The effort of the PPE, of social democrats and liberals for weaving a strong alliance amid the geopolitical convulsion before the United States slaughter is appreciated. To these three groups we want to add to the greens.

None of this has translation in Spain. Given the absence of the relationship between PSOE and PP, nothing cultivated by the Government, the popular do not see the need to enter the bottom of the debate, but remain in the requirement to Sánchez that he fulfills his commitments with NATO and denounce the discrepancy between the partners and their different ways of facing the change in the world order. Sánchez does not want to be the European rearme championbut at a huge distance the groups are located on their left, although on that side there are also differences. In adding, This weekend in a political partyis committed to « the unity of the left », including Podemos. Citizens want that unit, the second vice president and number three of the party proclaimed this Sunday Yolanda Díaz. But today, the bridges are broken.

The division is stark in Spain and Europe, with multiplicity of opinions. The head of the Spanish Government points out that it will work for countries to act in defense « with proportionality and unity. » On the first there are multiple conceptions, essentially when it translates into money.