“It’s not about changing a word, but changing a whole European project.” It is the response of the second vice president of the Government, Yolanda Díaz, to Pedro Sánchez after his criticisms of the “rhetoric” of the European Union on the increase in military spending in the new global context. A few days ago, the chief executive said he did not share the “term rearme” used by the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Ley in his proposal to the states to shoot the expense in defense.
In a post in her social networks, the leader of adding in the government ensures that the rearme plan presented by Ursula von der Leyen a few weeks ago “is not a simple lexical issue” or nominal. “It is a project that challenges the conception of Europe based on social welfare, global work, peace and security,” says the text that Díaz has published, which since the debate began within the EU has tried to reduce discrepancies with the PSOE in the Executive.
In these lines, Díaz clearly criticizes the von der Leyen plan, says that reducing the concept of European strategic autonomy to the arms race “is a serious mistake” and walks in the “opposite” direction. “A rearma does not urgently need, but a reconstruction of the European project, which must be relaunched and whose fundamental priority must be to give security and protection to the whole of European citizenship,” he writes. But criticism also turns against Sánchez at a time when the president tries to reconcile European plans with the discrepancies of his government partner.
“It is not about changing a word, but changing a whole European project. The rearme project presented by Ursula von der Leyen and the project of strategic autonomy and European security that we represent us is deeply different. Our security idea intends to take care of what European politics is missing,” says the second vice president of the Government, in a change of tone in the discourse that occurs as the plans that have taken place. Von der Leyen and also the answer that Sánchez prepares.
The chief of the Executive, last week, upon arrival at a meeting with the 27 said that the term “rearme” did not like it in “absolute.” “I do not share that term. We have to talk otherwise go to citizens in another way when we talk about increasing European security and defense capabilities,” he said. “The EU is a soft power project and we have obligations of hard power, but we have to emphasize the assets of soft power,” journalists responded to which he explained that his “main objection” to the plan promoted by Ursula von der Leyen is terminology.
Díaz also reproaches in his statement the fund of question, the plans of the president of the CE to continue asking the States to increase military spending. “The European Union already invests in defense 374,000 million euros, three times more than Russia. It is not, therefore, to rearm multiplying national military spending, but of coordinating better, guaranteeing the interoperability of our armed forces, having an autonomous, social and democratic security project, far from the subordination to the US,” he says.
It is a jump in the tone that Díaz has used in recent weeks to refer to this matter. The second vice president, who does not share the increase in military spending, has been modulating the speech in different public interventions to prevent the issue of defense from becoming a battle within the government, something that Sanchez has thanked him, who celebrated that adding does not endanger the “European commitments.”
To add however has taken advantage of Parliament to express its discrepancy with Sánchez’s plans. The parliamentary group is an alliance of a dozen parties, including some such as IU or the commons that have historically defended antibelicist positions. That is why in Congress, the coalition has shown hard positions and last week he even voted in favor of a motion that openly requested the departure of NATO Spain.
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