{"id":5385,"date":"2026-01-22T08:39:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T08:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/01\/22\/spain-calls-for-joint-european-army-to-strengthen-security\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T08:39:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T08:39:23","slug":"spain-calls-for-joint-european-army-to-strengthen-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/01\/22\/spain-calls-for-joint-european-army-to-strengthen-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain Calls for a Unified European Army to Strengthen Security Independence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid escalating political tensions between the United States and some European countries, Spain&#8217;s Foreign Minister has called for the establishment of a joint army within the framework of the European Union, describing it as a step toward strengthening the EU&#8217;s security independence.<\/p>\n<p>Jos\u00e9 Manuel \u00c1lvarez made these remarks on Wednesday evening after meeting with his Indian counterpart in New Delhi. He emphasized that a coordinated military force could be more effective than the separate activities of the 27 national armies of the member states.<\/p>\n<p>According to \u00c1lvarez, the proposal is not intended to replace NATO but to create an independent capacity to better respond to Europe&#8217;s security challenges.<\/p>\n<p>Without naming Donald Trump, the current President of the United States, Spain&#8217;s Foreign Minister asserted that Europe should not become an arena subject to political and economic pressures and extortion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spain urges the creation of a joint European army to enhance the EU&#8217;s security independence amid rising US-Europe political tensions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}