United We Can not attend any of the acts of the NATO summit


The ministers of United We Can they will not go to None of the many events scheduled around the summit that NATO will hold next week in Madrid to reject the planned increase in defense spending by European countries following the “interests” of the United States.

“I don’t think that’s going to happen,” he replied this Thursday Echenique when asked on TVE about the presence of the party’s senior officials in the meetings and debates organized around the Alliance summit on June 29 and 30.

The The Government already ruled out on Wednesday the possibility that ministers of Can participate in the summita decision that is merely operational and determined by the organization, but they left the door open for them to attend the events planned around the summit.

A possibility that Echenique has also ruled out this Thursday with the argument that “the summits in which an increase in spending on weapons is agreed upon are not the summits that our political space likes.”

It has opted for international meetings to agree on public measures of a social nature, instead of agreeing to increase the budget in “machine guns and bombs” and “execute Trump’s mandate to increase spending on weapons in the countries of the European Union at 2 percent”.

“We do not share that objective at all,” stressed the spokesman for United We Can, who, however, has valued the meeting set within the framework of the summit between the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, and that of the United States, Joe Biden.

He explained that “internationally and geostrategically” they are not concerned about bilateral relations with the US, but that European and Spanish interests are subordinated to that country.

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The European Union and Spain within it must have a autonomous foreign policyin the opinion of Echenique, who has warned that “by following the United States to certain places, sometimes things have not gone well for us and it is a country that has recently had democratic problems.”

“What would happen if Spain and Europe accept a geostrategic scheme of follow-on by the United States and in two years Donald Trump wins the elections again?” Asked the spokesman for United We Can.


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