MADRID, 30 May. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, defended this Monday the increase in defense spending that, in his opinion, Spain should undertake in the face of the threats that arise and given that security is not guaranteed indefinitely, as he has maintained.
In his speech at the NATO 40th anniversary commemoration event, before the Secretary General of the Atlantic Alliance, Jens Stoltenberg, and King Felipe VI, Sánchez pointed out that it is “essential” to reinforce deterrence capabilities and that these can only be acquired with the increase in investment in Defense. “We are very aware of this,” he said.
Sánchez added that the allies are going to pass it on to their societies. “We must make that effort” he has pointed out, because “the cost of standing idly by” is much higher, while freedom and the model of peaceful coexistence are “in check”, he has transmitted.
Thus, he indicated that the war in Ukraine “has opened the eyes” of European and Spanish societies and that many people have understood that “security is not guaranteed indefinitely” and that therefore unity and cooperation between NATO members to preserve it.
Likewise, he has indicated that the new strategic concept that is going to be approved at the Madrid summit at the end of June must respond to the war –“old threats that we thought had been overcome”–, but it must also go further and face the new hybrid threats or threats related to climate change. “That concept is going to go much further,” she said.
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