O povo brasileiro falou. Parabéns pela sua reeleição, Presidente @LulaOficial! A União Europeia e o Brasil são parceiros sólidos. Falei com o Presidente Lula ao telefone ontem à noite para o felicitar pela sua reeleição. Vamos continuar a trabalhar juntos para aprofundar os nossos laços, enfrentar os desafios globais e construir um mundo mais pacífico e próspero.

Congratulations to my friend @LulaOficial on his electoral victory. Democracy and multilateralism have won in Brazil. Europe’s partnership with Brazil is thriving. We will remain by your side for the years to come. Together we will keep working closely for free and open trade. A rules-based global order. And strong ambitions for our climate.

In 1941, a Spaniard walked into the British embassy in Madrid and offered to spy on the Nazis. The British turned him down. So he went to the Germans instead, pretended to be a loyal fascist, and got hired as a German spy. His plan was to lie to them for the rest of the war. It worked better than anyone could have imagined. His name was Juan Pujol García. Before the war he had tried his hand at running a chicken farm and a movie theater. He had no spy training. What he had was a deep hatred of both fascism and communism after the Spanish Civil War, and an incredible imagination. The Germans gave him a codename, invisible ink, money, and orders to go to Britain and recruit spies. He didn't go to Britain. He went to Lisbon, Portugal, and made everything up. Using a tourist guidebook, maps, magazines, newsreels, and a British railway timetable from the library, he wrote long, detailed reports about life in England. Military movements. Morale. Ports. He'd never been there. He made mistakes. He didn't understand British money. He once reported that dockworkers in Glasgow would do anything for a liter of wine. The Germans loved him anyway. Then British codebreakers reading German messages noticed something strange. The Germans were hunting for a convoy that didn't exist, based on a report from some agent in Britain they'd never heard of. The British went looking for this mystery spy. They found Pujol. In 1942 they finally took him on and brought him to London. Now he had real help. MI5 gave him the codename Garbo, after the actress, because they thought he was the greatest actor in the world. Together with his British handler, Pujol built a fake spy network for the Germans. It eventually had 27 imaginary agents. Each had a name, a personality, a job, and a backstory. A Welsh nationalist. A Venezuelan student. A Greek sailor. Some of them recruited their own imaginary sub-agents. When they needed to explain why one agent had gone quiet, they killed him off. They even put a fake obituary in a Liverpool newspaper. The Germans reportedly paid a pension to his widow. Who also didn't exist. Then came D-Day. Hours before the landings, the British let Pujol send a message warning the Germans that the invasion was coming in Normandy. It was timed so it would arrive too late to matter, but it made him look brilliant. Three days later he sent the most important message of his career. Normandy was a trick, he said. The real invasion was still coming, at Calais, led by a huge army under General Patton. That army was fake too. But the Germans believed him. German forces that could have been rushed to Normandy were held back near Calais for weeks, waiting for an attack that never came. The Germans were so grateful they awarded him the Iron Cross. A few months later, King George VI made him a Member of the Order of the British Empire. He's one of the only people known to have been decorated by both sides of the war. After the war, afraid of revenge from surviving Nazis, he faked his own death from malaria in Africa and disappeared to Venezuela, where he lived quietly running a shop. For decades the world thought he was dead. In 1984, a British writer tracked him down. Pujol came back to Normandy for the 40th anniversary of D-Day and met veterans who had landed on the beaches. Some of them thanked him.

⚡ 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗮 𝘀𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗮 𝗽𝗮𝗶́𝘀 𝗮 𝗽𝗮𝗶́𝘀. ¿𝗤𝘂𝗲́ 𝗵𝗮𝘆 𝗱𝗲 𝗘𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗻̃𝗮? Muchas gracias a @sectorceca y a Antonio Romero Mora por invitarme a la mesa sobre la Europa de la defensa de la 1ª Jornada Geofinanzas, con el vicealmirante Gregorio Bueno y Federico Aznar (IEEE), magistralmente moderada por Monica Malo. 1️⃣La 𝗨𝗘 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗮 𝘀𝘂 𝗱𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗮 𝗱𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮 𝗻𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 🔹 De los 800.000 millones de ReArm Europe, 650.000 son la cláusula nacional de escape: margen fiscal temporal hasta 2028, pagado con presupuesto nacional. Mantener ese gasto exigirá un ajuste de entre el 0,25% y el 0,4% del PIB al año desde 2029. 🔹 Los otros 150.000 millones son préstamos SAFE. Los usan sobre todo los países en la frontera con Rusia: Letonia, Lituania y Estonia, entre el 5,6% y el 8% del PIB. Y exigen poca compra conjunta. 2️⃣ 𝗬 𝗲𝘀𝗼 𝗳𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮 𝗹𝗮 𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗮 🔹 La defensa es casi un monopsonio: el Estado es prácticamente el único comprador. Cómo se financia el gasto determina cómo se organiza la industria. 🔹 Si cada país paga con su presupuesto, compra a sus campeones nacionales. En Alemania, el 58% de los pedidos de 2025 fue a empresas exclusivamente alemanas (Kiel Institute). De cada euro adicional desde 2020, 𝗺𝗲𝗻𝗼𝘀 𝗱𝗲 𝟰 𝗰𝗲́𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗼𝘀 fueron al resto de Europa. 🔹 Es lógico para quien paga. Pero el resultado es fragmentación, sin economías de escala, y una industria europea que no compite en precio con la estadounidense. 3️⃣ 𝗘𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗻̃𝗮: 𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗿 𝗯𝗶𝗲𝗻 𝘆 𝗾𝘂𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗮 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝗼́𝗻 🔹 Hemos usado la cláusula de escape, pero según la Junta Fiscal Europea no solo para aumentar el gasto en defensa. Y en SAFE somos el segundo país por la cola: 0,06% del PIB. 🔹 Con criterios OTAN gastamos el 2% del PIB; en contabilidad nacional, el 1%. 🔹 Lo transformador es la inversión. En 2024, la mitad del gasto en defensa fueron sueldos y solo el 22% fue inversión. 4️⃣ 𝗢𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗱𝗮𝗱𝗲𝘀 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗮 𝗘𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗻̃𝗮 🔹 Tenemos empresas competitivas (Navantia, Indra, Telefónica, Airbus España) y sabemos cooperar: somos segundos en proyectos coordinados del Fondo Europeo de Defensa. 🔹 Hay que entrar en las cadenas de valor de otros países. Ejemplo: Navantia construye en Cádiz parte de los buques logísticos que encargó la Royal Navy. 5️⃣ 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗼́𝗻 🔹 Sin una cartera de pedidos públicos estable, no llega la financiación privada. 🔹 Los socios promocionales reducen el sesgo reputacional y abren la puerta a la banca. Ya hay pasos: garantía BEI-Santander, FEI en el fondo de defensa de Nazca, CDTI. ✅ 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗽𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘀 ✅ Que un SAFE 2.0 o un Next Generation EU 2.0 para bienes públicos europeos exija compra conjunta de verdad. ✅ Una cartera de pedidos clara y plurianual para las empresas. ✅ Reglas Made in Europe que sean europeas, no pensadas para beneficiar a un Estado miembro concreto. ✅ Más acompañamiento de los socios promocionales (BEI, FEI, CDTI) a la financiación privada. #Defensa #UniónEuropea #Geofinanzas

I welcome the decisions by Italy and Spain to stop controls at their internal borders. Schengen is one of the EU's greatest achievements. We will continue to strengthen it: By further reducing illegal migration, increasing returns, and strengthening our external borders.

I don’t think Europeans fully appreciate what is happening to the European Union right now. The EU is under an extraordinary, multi-front assault, both from outside and from within. And I struggle to think of another period in its history when so many powerful actors had an interest in weakening it simultaneously. Russia has spent years waging hybrid warfare against Europe. Weaponised migration, sabotage, cyberattacks, coordinated disinformation campaigns, bot networks and political interference. The objective is clear: undermine trust in democratic institutions, deepen social divisions and weaken European unity. China has different motivations, primarily economic and geopolitical. A fragmented Europe is easier to pressure, easier to negotiate with individually and less capable of defending its economic interests. And then there is the United States. Perhaps the most disturbing development of all. Under Trump and MAGA, a country that helped rebuild the old continent and then spent decades supporting European integration now has an administration openly hostile to much of what the EU represents. Its own National Security Strategy even calls for cultivating resistance to Europe’s current political direction. Think about that for a moment. Meanwhile, within Europe, parts of the far right and far left amplify these divisions, whether through ideological alignment, political opportunism or outright sympathy for authoritarian regimes. This doesn’t mean Russia, China and MAGA are all following some jointly coordinated master plan. They don’t have to. Their interests increasingly overlap, and Europe’s internal divisions make their work considerably easier. What makes this particularly alarming is what is actually at stake. For all its flaws, the EU remains one of the world’s most consequential projects built around liberal democracy, the rule of law, individual freedoms and cooperation between nations. At a time when authoritarianism is gaining ground and even longstanding democracies are showing disturbing tendencies, that matters enormously. Europe is far from perfect. Its bureaucracy, indecision and inability to act decisively are real problems. But the answer cannot be to retreat into 27 competing nation-states, each too small to meaningfully influence a world increasingly dominated by continental powers. Quite the opposite. Europe needs deeper integration, stronger common institutions, genuine strategic autonomy and the political courage to defend its interests and values. Because fragmentation is precisely what so many external actors want. And perhaps that’s the central irony of our time: people are being deliberately manipulated into believing that the reverse is true — that national identity and sovereignty can only be protected by weakening European cooperation. In reality, a divided Europe is less sovereign, less secure and far easier for outside powers to pressure. Therefore the very thing that will make Europe stronger is the thing its adversaries are working hardest to prevent. A united Europe is a geopolitical power. A divided Europe is a collection of countries waiting to be played against one another.

Trump doubles down on his move toward Russia and away from Europe:

🛡️ #EUDefence innovation is gaining unprecedented momentum, with a record 612 project proposals submitted under the #EDF 2026 calls for a €1bn envelope. 🤝 Through collaboration - with 🇺🇦 UA on board - we turn innovation into concrete capabilities. 🔗 link.europa.eu/MTfwvr

Defence industry is no longer confined to the rear. In multidomain operations, the ability to develop, adapt, connect and sustain military capabilities can directly shape what happens on the battlefield. New analysis on Ejércitos: ejercitos.org/en/defence-ind…

👋 ¡Buenos días desde nuestro #RetiroElcano2026 en #Bruselas! En un año tan especial como el del 40 aniversario de la adhesión de España a la Unión Europea, dedicamos nuestro encuentro anual a reflexionar sobre el futuro de la UE.

Europe overcame the launcher crisis. But now we face the next, maybe even bigger challenge. In the next ten years, an expected 50,000 satellites will be launched into space worldwide. For defence. For the economy. For mega constellations. ⬇️1/6

Bienvenue à Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, cher voisin @MarkJCarney ! Moment historique. Première visite officielle d’un Premier ministre canadien sur cette terre française d’Amérique du Nord. Dans un monde en crise, notre amitié est une force. Nous affirmons ensemble notre souveraineté, notre liberté de décider et notre volonté de bâtir un avenir de paix et de prospérité.

Hace hoy siete años desde que empezó la aventura de «El infinito en un junco». A mi tribu lectora, gracias infinitas por convertir lo impensable en imparable. 📷 Laura C. Vela

There are many areas where Spain, Canada & EU can collaborate even more. From trade & investment to security & IA, we should strengthen our bilateral links. Spain is already working to do so. I have visited Canada 3 times over the past 2 years to help drive this effort.