The Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles, has gathered on Monday in Ferraz the socialist spokesmen of this area in Congress, Senate, in the autonomous parliaments and in the European Parliament, to address the Debate on the increase in military spending. Robles has insisted on the “security” concept on which the socialist strategy is being based to comply with the investment of 2% of the GDP required by NATO. “It is urgent to strengthen European security and reduce technological dependencies, improving military coordination“The Minister said, who has insisted on Spain’s commitment to reach that 2% before 2029.
Like the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, Robles has committed to strengthening “security” without “sacrificing growth and welfare state”. “Spain has increased security spending without reducing social or environmental investment,” he said. In this sense, he has insisted on the position of the government within the European debate, which consists of community financing for European “security” with a “similar” approach to pandemicthat is, through instruments such as direct subsidies. “A joint and mutual response in the EU,” he said.
The PSOE Institutional Policy, Alfonso Rodríguez Gómez de Celis, who has deepened the concept of “security” defended by the Government, beyond military investments, has also intervened at the meeting. De Celis has assured that, in a context of “hybrid war”, the expense also has to go to Strengthen “cybersecurity, curb misinformation, protect critical structures or energy sovereignty”. And, at this point, it has revealed “recent” “key” institutions such as SEPE and CSIC.
“The future of security is not, therefore, only military, but technological and industrialwhich entails the impulse of investment and innovation and new industries to generate employment and opportunities, “said the institutional head of the PSOE, thus influencing the “360 degree strategy” in which Sánchez has emphasized In the last meetings in Brussels and also with the spokesmen of the different parliamentary groups.
While other countries such as France or the United Kingdom are more focused on the question of troops, Spain insists on this concept of “security.” From the Government they ensure that the geographical influence of Spain and its geopolitical interest is on the southern flank, so its strategy must focus on the Sahel, in Morocco, in Egypt or in Israel and Palestine, since the threat is different from the countries closest to the Russian border. In this sense, both Sánchez and Albares put the focus on the use and “manipulation” of the migratory flows and also in terrorism.
Gómez de Celis has assured before the socialist spokesmen that security is a “state policy” and that the party looks at it from the “position of peace.” At this point, he has criticized that the PP, “instead of acting with height”, remains installed in the “The worst better” and look for the “small print” to reject the agreement “in its entirety”. Specifically, the popular have criticized the “obscurantism” of the government in their plan to increase military spending and have warned Sánchez that they will not consent to “fudge” to raise it without going through Congress.
According to Gómez de Celis, what the PP is looking for is “any type of excuse” even for a “common plan in Europe that is promoting European PP itself, but when you have to capture it in Spain they refuse in resounding,” he reproached them.
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