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

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

President Trump has called on NATO allies to increase their defense spending to 5 percent, with only three countries currently meeting the 2 percent threshold, while NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte ...

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 ...

European Union leaders on Friday downplayed skepticism from U.S. President Donald Trump about solidarity among NATO members ...

to say that Spain is not a reliable partner for NATO or the European Union, and that this was causing "extreme weakness" in relations between Madrid and Washington. "I would return to reliability ...

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 ...

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

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 ...