Sánchez is an expert in storytelling and knows that the misery of Mondays is buried by the news of Tuesdays. There is pressure from NATO for Spain to dedicate 5% of its GDP to defense. It's a figure as round as it is arbitrary, because there are many ways to squander money that could meet that goal without actually achieving a safer free world (even at risk, otherwise). His refusal to embrace the magic of 5% earns him front-page headlines that, for once in a long time, don't feature scruffy secretaries of the trade or family members in the spotlight. The Country He lends him a crutch in this battle with "Spain refuses to increase NATO military spending as demanded by Trump." It's worth noting that the one refusing here is Spain, not Sánchez, and that the 5% appears to be the personal whim of a figure as unpopular in Europe as Trump. The World, by contrast, orients it quite differently: "Sánchez places Spain against NATO and demands to be excluded from military spending." Here the subject is the leader of the PSOE, who drags the entire country into antagonizing the one who guarantees the security of its citizens: what a satrap, listen!
Another difference is that the subtitle of the Prisa newspaper, and also in The Vanguard, remember that increasing spending on the one hand means reducing it on the other, and that the one who suffers would be the welfare state. The WorldOf course, this argument is not included, because the handbook of entrenched journalism requires omitting the motivations of the rival or enemy, lest they have a piece of the truth. I have no doubt that Sánchez takes advantage of his No spending as a smokescreen. But a newspaper should clearly separate information and opinion, and in the first section, provide the elements so the reader can draw their own conclusions.
