President Donald Trump criticized Spain for not agreeing to new defense spending targets adopted by NATO and suggested the country could face tariffs twice as high from the US.
Trump stated that the US is negotiating a trade deal with Spain and threatened to make them pay twice as much, which caused Spain's benchmark stock index to extend its losses.
Spanish officials dismissed Trump's tariff threat, emphasizing that the European Commission handles trade matters for the EU and that individual member states don't negotiate trade deals on their own.
  • elucubra@sopuli.xyz
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    2 days ago

    Sanchez is a pure politician, a party rat, who hasn’t worked in a real job in his life. He simply wants to stay in power. He lacks any morals.

    Sadly, on the other side of the aisle it’s exactly the same…

    • Foni@lemmy.zip
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      2 days ago

      I’m not against professional politicians—there are things they handle and defend better than “amateurs.” What I’m against is dishonest politicians, and he’s shown himself to be one, by far.

      You can agree with his policies, measures, and ideas—whatever they may be—but if a politician is dishonest, they’ll always end up betraying you for their own interests.