While Trump's and his administration's insults towards the European Union do not subside, European leaders agreed yesterday in Cyprus to shift into fifth gear to achieve a common defense system. What happened this Friday is a demonstration of how much this process needs to be accelerated. In the morning, we woke up to the news that an email circulating within the Pentagon proposed the option of "kicking out" Spain from NATO, as a warning to other countries that refuse to help in the United States and Israel's war against Iran. It is an internal email, not an official statement, and experts warn that it has little traction and at most would mean removing Spain from command or leadership of missions, but the threat is there. Mid-morning, the United States Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, dedicated part of his press conference to criticizing Europeans and pointing out that the conference of countries on the Strait of Hormuz, organized last week by French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, was "ridiculous" and "ostentatious." Furthermore, he reproached them again for not participating in the war with the veiled threat that the "protection" they had from the United States until now has ended.

Ultranationalist Karol Nawrocki was sworn in this Wednesday as Poland's new president for the next five years, after defeating Warsaw Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski, a candidate close to Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, in the June elections. With Nawrocki's inauguration, Poland faces years of political deadlock, with a difficult coexistence between an ultraconservative and nationalist president and a liberal-centrist and pro-European prime minister.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Wednesday overcame the vote of confidence he himself had submitted to in the hope of regaining the political initiative, after his ally and mayor of Warsaw, Rafal Trzaskowski, who was narrowly defeated by far-right candidate Karol Nawrocki in the presidential elections earlier this monthThe strong results achieved by the conservative and political novice had sparked a wave of doubt among the governing coalition partners, especially because the country's president has the right to veto measures approved by Tusk's administration. Nawrocki, who is a former boxer, He embodies a more conservative and nationalist stance than Trzaskowski and Tusk himself, reformists and pro-Europeans.