On Friday 30 June in Brussels, the Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, pledged that his country would set out a resolutely “Europeanist” political programme as part of its Presidency of the Council of the European Union in the second half of 2023.
He cited his country’s “enormous ambition” to make progress, and even achieve success, on key issues such as access to critical raw materials, the promotion of economic security, the regulation of artificial intelligence and the...