Under Sánchez, Spain has moved from being a stable NATO and EU partner to one of the most high-profile left-wing governments in Europe.

The price is a clear cooling of relations with the USA. For the first time in a couple of decades, Spain was this month not invited to a key G20 meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors in Washington. While the G20 countries and key guests met US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde, Spain was absent.

– Spain is paying the price for Sánchez’s toxic ideology

Spain is not a permanent member of the G20, but due to the country’s economic weight has been a “permanent guest” that since 2008 has routinely been invited to both summit and ministerial meetings.

The exclusion comes after several months of a cold front between Washington and Madrid.

– Spain has been humiliated before the entire world. For the first time in twenty years, Spain has been excluded from a key G20 meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors. No official explanation has been provided. Total silence. The United States and the major powers are distancing themselves from the most radical, divisive and anti-Western government in Spain’s recent history. Sánchez wanted to be the global leader of progressivism… and now he stands alone, marginalised and without credibility. Spain is paying the price for his toxic ideology, writes the conservative commentator Jhonf Fonseca:

🇺🇸🇪🇸 ¡Pedro Sánchez se quedó solo!

España ha sido humillada ante el mundo.

Por primera vez en 20 años, España ha sido excluida de una reunión clave del G20 de ministros de Economía y Finanzas.

Mientras el mundo se reunía con Scott Bessent y Christine Lagarde, el gobierno… pic.twitter.com/pG6kcTzehc

— Jhonf Fonseca (@Jhonffonseca) April 27, 2026

Pedro Sánchez has deliberately profiled himself as one of Europe’s foremost critics of Donald Trump and has on ideological grounds distanced himself from the transatlantic cooperation. He refuses to meet Trump’s demand to increase defence spending to five per cent of GDP. He has also been strongly critical of the United States’ and Israel’s warfare against the mullah regime in Iran and has limited the United States’ use of Spanish bases.

In April this year, Sánchez gathered far-left leaders, among them Brazil’s Lula, Colombia’s Petro and Mexico’s Sheinbaum, for a major “In Defence of Democracy” summit in Barcelona – an event with a clear animus towards Trump and a distance from conservative Western thinking.