Pedro Sánchez, Prime Minister of Spain, discusses potential tariffs, defense spending and misinformation on social media from the sidelines of Davos 2025.

DAVOS, Switzerland — Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said on Wednesday that tech billionaires want to use social media “to overthrow democracy” — adding he’ll push EU leaders to take action.

Social media owners should be held responsible for "poisoning society" and eroding democracy with their algorithms, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez told the World Economic Forum in Davos on Wednesday.

President Volodymyr Zelensky discussed military assistance to Ukraine and the strengthening of sanctions against Russia with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez. — Ukrinform.

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“I’m pretty comfortable with the market expectations for the upcoming two meetings,” the Dutch central banker told Bloomberg TV. “I’m not convinced yet that we need to go into stimulative mode.”

Pedro Sánchez's government is immersed in an authoritarian drift whose next step is that anyone can suffer reprisals for expressing opinions on the Internet that are not to the liking of the socialists and their communist partners, whose allergy to dissent is one of the characteristics of the so-called "cancellation culture."

Spain spent $22.27 billion on defence in 2024, NATO figures show, the 10th largest contribution in absolute terms among the 31 NATO allies, but this amounts to an estimated 1.28%

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez fired back at Donald Trump on Wednesday after the U.S. president criticized Madrid for falling well short on its defense spending.

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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said he would propose to ban purchasers from outside the European Union from buying properties, as the government seeks to curb rising housing prices, which have become an increasing source of friction.