Sánchez: Spain must ditch 'peripheral’ role, offer EU leadership

Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez says it is high time Spain imposes itself as a leading EU country instead of staying at the periphery’ Spain ’s EU Council presidency published a paper on the bloc’s Open Strategic Autonomy’. Spain should no longer be treated as unequal’, he added, in a thinly veiled criticism of historically bigger and louder member states, but should instead be “a leader among equals”.

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