Meet the leader of Europe’s anti-Trump resistance
For Spain’s leader, Pedro Sánchez, opposing Trump is a lonely endeavour
TO APPRECIATE THE loneliness of Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, consider this. When he was left out of a White House summit on Ukraine on August 18th, it was only Spain’s second-worst snub that day. To the added dismay of foreign-policy types in Madrid, a seat was found for the president of Finland, a country with a population less than an eighth the size of Spain’s, alongside leaders from Britain, the European Commission, France, Germany, Italy, NATO and Ukraine.
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This article appeared in the International section of the print edition under the headline “Europe’s anti-Trump resistance leader”
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