“The international press maintains that the ultimate goal remains 5%. Sánchez must answer all the doubts that are emerging. He cannot pretend to continue lying to everyone.” That is the reflection made public by the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, on Sunday, late in the afternoon, thus putting in question what had transferred a few minutes before the president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, about his negotiation with NATO. The chief executive announced that far from the 5% initially required by the Atlantic Alliance, thanks to his conversations with the general secretary of the organization, Mark Rutte, had managed to reduce that 2.1% requirement.
Faced with the accusations launched by Feijóo against Sánchez, the international press has supported the account defended by the Executive. “Spain achieves an exemption from the 5% spending target in defense of NATO,” the agency titled last night Bloombergspecialized in economic information. This media explains, in his news, that in a letter Rutte himself certified that “Spain will decide how to meet the objectives and the statement adopted at the summit will give Spain 'flexibility' to 'determine its own sovereign path to achieve the capacity of capacity'”.
“Spain obtained an exemption from the ambitious target of NATO defense expense of 5% of GDP after several days of diplomatic disputes that caused Donald Trump's contempt, just before the leaders of the military alliance meet on Tuesday,” Bloomberg adds in his information.
Another agency with international weight, the British Reutershe titled his news: “Spain agrees with NATO to skip the goal of 5% of defense expenditure.” And France24, said: “Spain reaches an agreement with NATO to be exempt from the 5% defense expenditure objective.” “Spain ensures the voluntary exclusion of the new NATO spending objective,” the American added, for its part, the American Financial Times.
In Politicomedium specialized in European politics, they titled last night that “NATO allies agree on a 5%defense spending objective” although in the subtitle they clarified that although Spain opposed the new spending objective, “yielded after flexibility was granted.” “For Madrid to join the initiative, the new text that leaders will approved on Wednesday Community
“The agreement we have achieved today is good for Spain and for the whole of NATO. It shows that multilateralism works,” Sánchez concluded on Sunday, before ensuring that the “legitimacy” of the country in the Atlantic Alliance remains “intact” after achieving an agreement that gives it “flexibility” so that it can fulfill its military commitments without the need to shoot the expense to 5% at the same time that it preserves the “unit”.
“It is very positive,” Sanchez said about the pact: “It will allow us to fulfill our commitments with the Atlantic Alliance without having to raise our defense expense to 5% of GDP.”
