Spain & Portugal correspondent @FT. Former Executive News Editor and reporter in Washington, NYC, Nairobi and Tokyo. 日本語堪能
Barney Jopson
NEW- Nato plans for all allies to pledge 5pct defence spending at a ministerial meeting June 5, but Spain is still resisting that Trump demand, officials told @financialtimes.com, disrupting preparations for the alliance’s crucial summit in The Hague
w @barneyjopson.bsky.social
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Spain’s grid operator has accused some large power plants of not doing their job to help regulate the country’s electricity system in the moments before last month’s catastrophic blackout.
The blame game intensifies …
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👂 🇪🇸 PODCAST TIME 🇪🇸 👂
another dispatch from Madrid featuring:
- Europe getting its act together on defence
- Spain is miles from Moscow tho, where does it fit in?
- mild trolling of Americans
With:
@robarmstrong.bsky.social @barneyjopson.bsky.social
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Former Yanukovych aide Andriy Portnov was shot several times in the back and head and killed by a group of gunmen outside a school near Madrid, Spain’s interior ministry confirmed. The assailants fled the scene into a wooded area. Story w/ @barneyjopson.bsky.social.
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Barney Jopson
Katie Martin
Italy’s Giorgia Meloni rejects ‘childish’ choice between Trump and Europe
The FT gets Italian PM’s first interview with a foreign newspaper
www.ft.com/content/96d0...
💥 Spain threatens to derail Nato’s Trump appeasement summit as Sánchez says that US President’s 5% defence spending demand is “unreasonable”
Madrid is doubling down on its longstanding opposition to higher spending four days before The Hague
w @barneyjopson.bsky.social
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Henry Foy
Defence laggard Spain calls for cyber and climate efforts to count as security spending
"Our threat is not Russia bringing its troops across the Pyrenees," says PM Pedro Sánchez
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The Spanish government wants to turn Indra into a European defence champion
Next step: Indra declares it wants to buy a US-owned arms maker based in Spain and accuses the owner (General Dynamics) of ‘destroying’ it
ft.com/content/83ac... from @sylviapfeifer.bsky.social & me
Powerful new cannabis outstrips dangers of ‘Woodstock pot’.
Boss of EU drugs agency tells me the continent is being flooded with super-strength cannabis that puts users at greater risk of psychosis.
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Trouble in 'paradise': The US base in Spain braced for Trump's Nato cuts.
My report from the beach town of Rota, where warships dock, Chevrolets cruise and the pizza slices are huge ...
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[FREE TO READ] Madrid’s stance threatens alliance unity amid preparations to meet Trump’s military spending demand in June
