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Spain is a member of the European Union, a 27-country bloc that operates a common trade policy, so any attempt to single out Madrid would create friction with other member states, like Germany, France and Italy. 23 HRS ago 5 mins read
By Euronews Published on 04/03/2026 – 18:51 GMT+1 A US submarine torpedoed an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Sri Lanka, US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Wednesday. “Yesterday, in the Indian Ocean…an American submarine sunk an Iranian warship that thought it was safe in international waters. Instead, it was sunk by a torpedo,” Hegseth said at a Pentagon briefing. It is “the first sinking of an enemy ship by a torpedo since World War II,” he added. “Like in that war, back when we were still the War Department, we are fighting to win.” Sri…
According to a recent poll carried out by the state-run Center for Sociological Research, three-quarters of all Spaniards admitted to having a “very bad” opinion of Trump, and 8 out of 10 considered him as posing a threat to world peace. Sánchez may be hoping to seize on a popularity “Trump-bump” similar to the one benefiting another center-left EU leader, Denmark’s Mette Frederiksen. Her Social Democrats suffered a crushing defeat in municipal elections last year, but since January the prime minister’s party has soared in the polls as a result of her vehement opposition to Trump’s threats to annex Greenland. In France, the global tensions are also giving the French president a new lease on political…
Pedro Sánchez knows exactly what he is doing. By defying Donald Trump and doubling down on his bras de fer with the US president, the Spanish prime minister consolidates a two-fold strategy. On the one hand, he seeks to mobilize his progressive electorate domestically, resuscitating a “no to war” movement which resonated strongly with Spanish voters during the US-led war against Iraq in 2003. Sánchez is also hoping for a moment akin to that of Dominique de Villepin: a Cassandra warning against an unjustified war that will bring disastrous consequences. Only now it’s Iran. In doing so, he aims to…
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The lead negotiators will meet again on March 17 and reassess whether to schedule a committee vote that same week, according to three officials. Once the committee green-lights the trade agreement, it could be ratified in a plenary session on March 25-26. The latest postponement follows Trump’s threat on Tuesday to impose a trade embargo on Spain for refusing to allow U.S. warplanes stationed there to launch air strikes on Iran. “We’re going to cut off all trade with Spain,” Trump said during a sit-down with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in the Oval Office. “We don’t want anything to do…
Spain is a member of the European Union, a 27-country bloc that operates a common trade policy, so any attempt to single out Madrid would create friction with other member states, like Germany, France and Italy. 20 HRS ago 5 mins read
United States President Donald Trump’s decision to strike Iran, pursue regime change and reshape the balance of power in the Middle East has revived a formidable ghost that the European Union thought it had managed to banish for good: energy crisis. The spiralling war has sent gas prices soaring, prompting panic among investors and anxiety among governments. On Tuesday, gas prices at the Title Transfer Facility (TTF), Europe’s benchmark trade hub, closed at €54.3 per megawatt-hour (MWh), a striking rise from €31.9 MWh on Friday, the day before Trump gave the go-ahead for the first strikes on Iran. The sudden…
“Tout le monde comprend que, pour nous, il s’agit de notre vie — les armes appropriées”, a déclaré le président ukrainien Volodymyr Zelensky à la presse lundi. “Si les hostilités s’étendent sur le long terme au Moyen-Orient, cela affectera certainement l’approvisionnement. J’en suis sûr.” Donald Trump a annoncé lundi que la guerre menée par les Etats-Unis et Israël contre l’Iran pourrait durer quatre à cinq semaines, mais qu’il était prêt à ce qu’elle dure plus longtemps. Certains analystes ont mis en garde contre le risque de voir cette guerre se transformer en un conflit plus large dont les Etats-Unis pourraient…
Published on 04/03/2026 – 13:58 GMT+1•Updated 14:32 The European Commission said on Wednesday it would make sure the European Union’s interests are fully safeguarded after the the White House threatened to cut off trade relations with Spain. The Commission offered its support after United States President Donald Trump lashed out at Madrid for its refusal to allow the US military to use its bases to support its operations in and around Iran. Speaking at the White House on Tuesday, Trump called the Spanish government “terrible”. “We’re going to cut off all trade. We don’t want anything to do with Spain,”…