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Spain’s PM Pedro Sánchez at risk as Nato gamble sparks Donald Trump’s ire

US president threatens Madrid with extra tariffs after Spanish prime minister rejects 5% defence spending target

Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez left this week’s Nato summit with a smaller defence bill than the alliance’s other members, but Donald Trump warned the EU’s top leftwing leader that he would be made to pay in other ways.

After Sánchez’s resistance to a new spending target riled many European colleagues, the US president accused Spain of seeking a “free ride” and threatened to “make them pay twice as much” in tariffs to the US as part of a trade deal.

The Spanish premier on Thursday described Trump’s threat as “doubly unfair” and pointed to the fact that the bloc’s trade deals are negotiated by the European Commission.

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