The Minister of Foreign Affairs, of the European Union and Cooperation, José Manuel Albareshe considered that we must not “disturb” citizens after the European Commission He presented a proposal to equip a survival kit for 72 hours, ensuring that there is currently no threat to the sovereignty of Spain and “nobody is preparing for any war”.
“I think we must not unnecessarily disturb our citizens. At the moment there is no threat or for the territorial integrity and the sovereignty of Spain, nor does it not even do it At the moment no one is preparing for any war“He said in an interview in” La 1 “after he was asked if he has already prepared his.
The minister exercised the fact that the documents presented by Brussels, such as that relating to the survival kit, “A sort of intermediate point of consent of different security cultures” of the Member States.
“In some countries of Eastern Europe and the North, this type of preparation exercises are common and are in their culture of security”, not in Spain, recognized, betting up He passes from the anecdote of the “reality” kit.
And that reality, he said, is that Europe must take on its security and stop according to the others “, now that it is threatened by Russia, who has revoked the war on the continent and that there was a “Post change” in the United States regarding Eurotlántic security.
“The European project is a Project of peace and progress And since we want to continue to be, what we have to do at this moment is to guarantee our security and our deterrence in our hands so that nobody has ever temptation and passing a second through the head of the attempt to attack Europe “, he defended.
He asks not to convey the “militarist” vision
Albares has always avoided producing more weapons in this new context, underlining that “weapons will occur and the defense industry will be integrated”. “We must not convey the false image of a militarist vision or weapons of the situation”He said.
“Militarism is to arm in an aggressive way to conquer the territory or cut the sovereignty of a neighbor, here’s what is doing Russia At the moment, “he illustrated to underline that” it is certainly not the spirit and philosophy with which Europe is conducted “nor the position that Spain defends.
To ensure the safety of citizens’ life projects, it is necessary “A defense leg” But the debate “goes much further”, “it is not exclusively on the production of more weapons”, but it also passes to guarantee the single market, the competitiveness of companies or energy flows.
The minister stressed that decisions must be adopted gradually in the coming months. In this regard, the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has left the concretion of the national plan for the development and promotion of technology and the Spanish security and defense industry, which Eva said that it will be announced before the summer, as well as When Spain reaches 2% of GDP in defense expenditure.
“Nobody wants to defraud any debate (…) and the advertisements will be made in a timely man”He said, defending the “very clear exhibition” of the current situation that the president made the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, the “quite gross opposition” that raised in the debate, made in the plenary of Congress and Rasa. “It wasn’t up to par.”
There is no “Spain-taalia block”
On the other hand, Albares rejected that there is a “block of Italy in Spain” currently within the European Council since both Sánchez and the Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloniwere critical of the “rear -view” approach adopted by the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der leyenAnd they clarified that the threats of the southern countries are not the same as the east.
“Of course Spain and Italy do not worry about bringing common positions”The minister assured. “I would not say that we are in the minority, simply our vision of Europe, our vision of Europe’s threat is different from our geographical position,” he said, ensuring that Spain is “at the center of the European decision”.
