The Airbus Defense & Space plant in Getafe, #Spain, has delivered two A330 MRTT aerial refueling and transport aircraft to the NATO Multinational Fleet at its main base in Eindhoven, #Netherlands.

King Felipe VI embarks on the School Ship "Juan Sebastián de Elcano", Kingdom of #Spain

#NATO warns #Spain: raising soldiers salary isn't enough to meet defense spending.

Spanish political party and government partner Podemos had a recipe to increase military spending

,«Investment of military spending can be made to raise the salary of the troops, instead of spending it on American arms companies».

That recipe, they have explained, consists of dedicating the billions of euros of the promised increase in military spending, up to 2% of GDP, through a massive rise in salaries for professionals in the Armed Forces. However, NATO has already warned Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez that this path is not the solution: spending must maintain a "balance"...

#Spain and #Germany have agreed this Wednesday to intensify their cooperation in defense and have highlighted the importance of cooperation in arms and industry to strengthen European defensive capabilities

#Spain The Air and Space Army reported the first shipment of material from two 'Predator-B' drones and a control station from Wing 23, at the Talavera La Real Air Base, to the Lanzarote Military Aerodrome.

19 Ukrainian soldiers receiving training in #Spain, Zaragoza Air Base

#Spain's military spending 2023 more than 27,000,000,000 euros, exceeding NATO goals, shall we say, for every €10 taxpayer, €3 in weapons

According to data from the Delàs Center for Peace Studies, real Spanish military spending in 2023–which includes, apart from the consolidated budget of Spain MOD, the rest of the items of a military nature distributed in other portfolios– will be 27,617.43 million euros, the equivalent of 75.7 million euros per day.


"If these budgets are approved, Spain will already exceed NATO's spending target by 2023, dedicating 2.17% of its GDP to military spending," says the Delàs Center in a report published this Tuesday. According to this calculation, of the investments of the central State, "10 euros that the State invests in 2023, three will be for weapons."

In midst of #Morocco and #Spain conflict over Ceuta and Melilla; On Wednesday, October 19, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Spain Anti-Aircraft Artillery Group of the 30th Mixed Artillery Regiment (RAMIX 30) plans to carry out an exercise in collaboration with the Air and Space Army. Fire actions will not be carried out. It is only an aircraft monitoring exercise, which will not be flying over the Ceuta sky for more than an hour.

Arrival of a Italian Air Force KC767 with material for SIRIO22 exercise Gran Canaria #Spain

#Spain Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, in the Senate: "No Spanish home is going to lack the energy to light up, heat up and cook this winter. There are going to be no blackouts, no rationing, or any of those apocalyptic scenes predicted by hoaxes's creators."

When all the Spanish people know it the problem isn't the supply, it is the high cost of bill, many homes will not turn on the light, will not use heating to be able to pay rent and eat.

Over the next two months, #Spain will send Eurofighter to Bulgaria and Romania as part of its participation in a NATO mission that aims to protect the airspace of the member countries of the Atlantic Alliance.

Thus, eight of these planes will go to Bulgaria on November 1, while in December the deployment will take place in Romania for a similar operation, according to sources from the Spanish Ministry of Defense reported by local media.

#Spain and #Chile will take part in the peace process of the National Liberation Army (ELN) with the Colombian State, informed Foreign Minister Álvaro Leyva.

Meanwhile, in Borrell's garden, Yesterday a mother and her 3 minor children were evicted in Palma, #Spain, Some mortgages went from paying €700 per month to €1,200 1 out of 3 people according to a survey in the Balearic Islands, for example, will no longer be able to buy clothes or go out for drinks to be able to pay the mortgage of the European garden

Meanwhile, in Borrell's garden, Yesterday a mother and her 3 minor children were evicted in Palma, #Spain, Some mortgages went from paying €700 per month to €1,200 1 out of 3 people according to a survey in the Balearic Islands, for example, will no longer be able to buy clothes or go out for drinks to be able to pay the mortgage of the European garden

#Spain sends the Aspide missile battery to Ukraine and 19 soldiers who learned to use it

The Ukrainians were transferred in a C-295 plane from the Getafe base, and the battery was loaded onto several trailers to take them by road to Poland.

Arrested 10 people belonging to criminal network largest supplier of hashish in #Spain, leaving the criminal organization totally dismantled both in its drug trafficking and money laundering aspects.

So far, 5 bomb/arson letters have been reported in #Madrid - #Spain:

-At the residence of Pedro Sánchez on 11/24

-At the Ukrainian embassy in Madrid, leaving a slightly injured person on 11/30

-In Instalaza facilities in Zaragoza, a company that manufactures military equipment 11/30

-At the Torrejón de Ardoz military base, 1/12

-At the headquarters of the Ministry of Defense in Madrid on 1/12

#Spain: Demonstrators denounce import and sale of stolen products from occupied Western Sahara.

Madrid, 25 December 2022 (SPS) - Members of the Sahrawi community and activists on Saturday staged protests in front of shops in Spain known for importing and selling products stolen from occupied Western Sahara.

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