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01 June 2019

Bloomberg: Spain will fill EU vacuum left by UK, Italy, Sanchez says


Acting Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez pledged the country will boost its influence in European Union institutions and counter what he portrayed as the fading clout of the UK and Italy in Brussels.

“With a United Kingdom that has decided to leave but doesn’t know how to leave and an Italy that’s preoccupied with its own dynamics, I think Spain has an enormous opportunity but also an enormous responsibility to drive the European project," Sanchez told a group of Spanish business leaders on Saturday.

Sanchez said Madrid would push for a position on the European Commission, seizing on his Socialist Party’s strong showing in EU elections.

He called on European leaders to prioritize the completion of the bloc’s banking union in the next five years. [...]

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