Pedro Sanchez’s pledge to advance defense spending while maintaining social policies has raised immediate concerns, says ...

“S PAIN is very low,” Donald Trump said last month, referring to the country’s defence spending. For once, he was correct ...

Spain's leftist government, proportionally NATO's smallest spender on defence, faces political and popular resistance as it ...

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez is scheduled to meet the leaders of nine parties on Thursday as he tries to muster political support to boost the country’s defense spending and meet NATO targets.

Spain will struggle to match Nato defence spending targets because of political divisions and the weak position of the ...

Sumar, the PSOE’s junior coalition partner, known for offering mild criticisms of government decisions for not being “left” ...

European Union leaders downplayed scepticism from US President Donald Trump about solidarity among Nato members a day after ...

The formal entry of Finland and Sweden into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) over the past two years enhanced alliance security, but it also revealed a strategic myopia: demands that each ...

While its founding membership was smaller, NATO expanded over time, particularly after the return to democracy in countries like Spain and Portugal in the 1970s and the collapse of the USSR ...

The plan of the PSOE coalition government with the left-wing Sumar platform is to meet the initial commitment of Spain to NATO, increasing the country’s military spending to 2 percent of its ...

In Spain, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said his country would raise defense spending to reach NATO’s target faster than previously committed. But he did not specify when the eurozone’s fourth ...