In the most tense times of the Cold War, France and Germany, with conservative or center-left governments, set aside their differences and since 1963 have met twice a year to corroborate the Élysée Treaty signed in 1963 between De Gaulle and Adenauer. Europe has come this far thanks to the fireproof alliance between two countries that have played leading roles in the three great European and world wars since 1870.
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Spain was left out of the three conflicts and did not participate in the three solutions. When Felipe González signed the Accession Treaty in 1986, the doors of Europe, which had been closed since the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, were opened.
Pedro Sánchez has not known or has not wanted to enter the hard core that makes the major decisions of the Union, alongside France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Poland, and Italy.
There are many causes for the de facto isolation of Sánchez’s foreign policy on security and defense issues. He has no minor problem, his parliamentary weakness, which causes every foreign decision to return to Moncloa as an internal conflict.
It is unusual and unacceptable, compared to most European partners, that no budgets have been presented in four years of legislature.
Spanish foreign policy has lost weight for not playing fully with the major European allies
It is also incomprehensible that the 2022 pact with the King of Morocco handing over the rights of Western Sahara has not passed through Congress without knowing what that agreement contained. In open and democratic societies in globalized times, it is impossible to keep secret a Copernican shift like the one that occurred with Moroccan policy.
It is not known if the invasion of Ceuta on July 30 caught the Government by surprise. If it knew, bad, and if it did not know, even worse. Sánchez went to the autonomous city in the first days of the invasion, which necessarily had to be carried out with the knowledge of King Mohamed VI, but for three weeks he has sent several ministers who did not even agree on the diagnosis of the serious crisis created by the massive and illegal entry of about eighty thousand people who sowed fear and helplessness in the city of Ceuta. Upon returning from his vacation, the National Security Council has been created. It was about time.
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It is not understood why King Felipe VI has not gone to Ceuta as he did several times to Valencia during the flood drama. Was it due to a veto from Moncloa? It is not known.
Europe offered kind words and rhetorical gestures because most EU members did not accept the regularization of more than a million undocumented immigrants without having agreed on it or without knowledge of such a delicate issue as immigration, which affects all countries. It is humanitarian to regularize those who live and work here, but the borders of the Schengen area are European and not just Spanish.
The fact that the populist Meloni agrees with the Danish social democrat on an immigration issue indicates how much Sánchez’s decision caused discomfort in several EU capitals where xenophobic parties are closing in on what is considered the centrality of the major traditional parties.
What explanation is there for Pedro Sánchez’s three trips to China without any other European country showing such complicity with Xi Jinping’s regime? Raising the flag against Trump and Netanyahu is popular in Spain and also in Europe, but the shadow of the United States and Israel is very long in intelligence, economy, and global politics.
It has been written that Washington intends to control entry to the Mediterranean and has opted to forge a strong alliance with Morocco with Israel’s complicity. If this is so, wouldn’t it be more logical and prudent to cling to the European card and not boast of being the most left-wing and progressive government? Sánchez must give explanations in Congress. Otherwise, he should call early elections. If it is about defusing the extremes, a grand coalition is possible on state issues such as foreign policy, housing, immigration, and education.
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