Spain ‘more convinced of its own position’ on the US than the EU is, Jaume Duch tells Euronews

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Spain ‘more convinced of its own position’ on the US than the EU is, Jaume Duch tells Euronews  The Catalan regional minister told Euronews that, while Spain has been leading when it comes to standing up against Washington, the EU has taken a firmer stance in recent months.  READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2026/05/06/spain-more-convinced-of-its-own-position-on-the-us-than-the-eu-is-jaume-duch-tells-euronew  Subscribe to our channel. Euronews is available on Dailymotion in 12 languages

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00:01The Minister for the European Union of the Catalan government, Jaume Duc, has told Euronews that when it comes to

00:08taking a stance against criticism from Washington, Spain is more resolute in its position than the European Union.

00:15Duc, who acts as the link between Brussels and Barcelona, said Madrid has been, quote, smart in analysing the situation

00:22concerning President Donald Trump, including on the conflict in the Middle East.

00:27We were also among the first in criticizing this conflict or the way this conflict has been opened or produced

00:36in Iran and then how in the following weeks this position was adopted also by a majority of member states

00:47of the European Union.

00:48This means that we were just, let's say, more convinced about our own positions.

00:57You think the EU is not convinced of its positions?

00:59I think that the EU has evolved a lot in the last months.

01:03I think that there was a turning point which was all the threats against Greenland.

01:08I think that this opened wide the eyes of many governments in this continent.

01:13And since then, the positions have changed.

01:16Shifting the conversation of politics to a more local level, Duc argued that a closer relationship is needed between regional

01:23governments and Brussels.

01:25Any of the decisions that are taken in Brussels by the Commission, the Council of the European Parliament at the

01:30end of the day have to be applied by the regional governments, not by the national ones.

01:36And competencies on agriculture, on fisheries, on trade, on housing, on many, many, many other topics are in the hands

01:44of the Catalan government,

01:45which means that in reality what you need is a very good relationship between those who are deciding here in

01:50Brussels

01:50and those who are implementing the rules, the European laws, in the territory, in this case in Catalonia.

01:57Duc said European and Catalan priorities are more aligned than most would think,

02:02with shared interests such as strategic autonomy, defence and energy.

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