Spanish Senate Rejects France Friendship Treaty During Macron Visit
The upper house voted against the agreement, signed in January 2023, during the French president's state visit.
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Felipe VI se reúne con Macron en la Zarzuela Carlos Luján Europa Press
Photograph: La Razón (embedded from source)
What this story says
- The Spanish Senate rejected the Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation with France.
- The treaty, signed in January 2023, had been awaiting ratification.
- The rejection took place during a state visit by French President Emmanuel Macron.
- The People's Party cited concerns over an article allowing ministers to attend each other's cabinet meetings.
Who covered it
Percentages are shares of the 8 outlets carrying a published leaning rating. 11 of the 19 outlets we know ran this story carry no rating and are not counted in them. Coverage measured .
Trust
42/100
Craft
61/100
Hype
41/100
19 sources · methodology
Thin on the left so far
Only 2 of the 8 outlets with a published leaning rating that ran this story are rated left.
This story is still being watched, so it is a count and not yet a finding. Coverage keeps arriving for hours after an event, and a side that has published nothing this morning may publish by tonight. If it is still true when we stop checking, we will say so plainly.
The Spanish Senate has rejected the Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation with France. The treaty, signed in January 2023, had been awaiting ratification by the Spanish parliament. The vote occurred on 29 September 2026, during a state visit by French President Emmanuel Macron to Spain. Macron was attending a gala dinner at the Royal Palace at the time of the vote.
Disagreement on treaty's future
La Vanguardia reported that the treaty would now lapse because the Senate did not approve it. It added that the government would need to restart the parliamentary process. El Pais stated that the Congress and the upper house would have to resolve their disagreements on the agreement through a Joint Commission.
What the coverage left out
None of the left-rated reports mentioned King Felipe VI's comments on the situation in Ceuta or his call for increased EU collaboration on border protection. No centre-rated outlet covered this story.
Still developing. We have re-checked which outlets are covering this 8 times, most recently on 29 Sept 2026, 21:15, and will add the sides that appear.
How other outlets pictured it
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La senadora del Partido Popular Alicia García.Kiko Huesca / EFE
La Vanguardia — embedded from source
How each side covered it
Our own reading of the reporting listed below, written from the outlets’ articles rather than quoted from them. The reasoning is set out on our methodology page.
Left
2 rated outlets
- The left-rated reports focused on the Senate's rejection of the Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation with France. La Vanguardia stated that the Senate, with an absolute majority of the PP, had delivered a significant defeat to the government. El Pais reported that the Senate had again rejected the treaty, which had been endorsed by the Constitutional Court. Both outlets noted that the rejection occurred during President Macron's state visit.
Centre
0 rated outlets
No outlet rated centre has run this story so far. We are still checking, and will say plainly if that does not change.
Right
6 rated outlets
- Right-rated reports highlighted the People's Party's role in rejecting the treaty. La Razón reported that the Senate had 'tumbled' the treaty. El Mundo and OKDIARIO stated that the PP had 'tombed' the treaty in the Senate. Libertad Digital and ABC also reported the PP's rejection. Several reports mentioned that the treaty was rejected despite the Constitutional Court's ruling on its constitutionality and during Macron's visit. La Razón also included remarks from King Felipe VI, who called the 'mass intrusion' in Ceuta 'unacceptable' and urged increased EU collaboration on border protection.
Questions about this coverage
- How did the left and right cover Spanish Senate Rejects France Friendship Treaty During Macron Visit?
- Of the 8 outlets on this story carrying a published leaning rating, 25% are rated left, 0% are rated centre, 75% are rated right. Those percentages are shares of the rated outlets, not of every outlet that ran it, which was 19. The sections above set out what each side emphasised, in its own terms.
- Is Spanish Senate Rejects France Friendship Treaty During Macron Visit left or right?
- Too few of the outlets on this story carry a published leaning rating to say. 8 of them do, and this site does not characterise a field under 12: at that size one newsroom filing moves the share by ten points. The percentages above are the count as it stands.
- Is the coverage of Spanish Senate Rejects France Friendship Treaty During Macron Visit biased?
- Spanish Senate Rejects France Friendship Treaty During Macron Visit is one event reported by 19 outlets, and this page does not rate the story as biased or unbiased. What it publishes is the spread: which outlets ran it, where named rating organisations place each of them on the spectrum, and what each side chose to lead with. A leaning rating describes an outlet's record over time, not this article, and the two should not be run together.
- Which side is not reporting Spanish Senate Rejects France Friendship Treaty During Macron Visit?
- When we first saw this story, outlets rated left had barely covered it. Coverage accretes for hours after an event, so that is where to look rather than a verdict — the split above is the current count, and it is the one to read.
- Which outlets covered Spanish Senate Rejects France Friendship Treaty During Macron Visit?
- 19 that we know of, every one of them listed further up this page with a link to its own report and to what we hold on the publisher. Nothing here is a summary of somebody else's summary: the outlets are named so the original reporting can be read.
- What was the Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation with France?
- The treaty was an agreement signed between Spain and France in January 2023. It had been awaiting ratification by the Spanish parliament. A key point of contention was an article allowing a minister from each country to attend the other's Council of Ministers meetings.
- Why did the Spanish Senate reject the treaty?
- The People's Party (PP), which holds an absolute majority in the Senate, cited concerns over an article that would allow a minister from each country to attend the other's Council of Ministers meetings. They argued this did not offer 'maximum institutional guarantees'.
- When did the rejection happen?
- The Spanish Senate rejected the treaty on 29 September 2026. This occurred during a state visit by French President Emmanuel Macron to Spain, who was attending a gala dinner at the Royal Palace.
Read it at the source
19 outlets, grouped by the leaning a published rating gives them. Every headline links to the original; an underlined outlet name opens our profile of that publisher.
Left
2- The Senate Again Rejects the France-Spain Friendship Treaty Endorsed by the Constitutional (opens El Pais in a new tab)
- The Senate Shoots Down the Government and Overthrows the Treaty of Friendship with France (opens La Vanguardia in a new tab)
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Centre
0No outlet in this group ran the story.
Right
6- The King Calls the "Mass Intrusion" in Ceuta "Unacceptable" and Calls for EU "Collaboration" with Macron (opens La Razón in a new tab)
- The Senate Overthrows the Treaty of Friendship with France in the Midst of Macron’s Visit (opens Libertad Digital in a new tab)
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- The PP Tombs in the Senate the Treaty of Friendship with France in the Midst of Macron's Visit to Spain (opens OKDIARIO in a new tab)
- The Senate Overthrows the Treaty of Friendship with France in the Midst of Macron's Visit to Spain (opens El Mundo in a new tab)
- Senate Rejects Treaty of Friendship with France with Vote Against PP and Vox (opens ABC in a new tab)
- Last Political Hour, Live The Senate Overthrows the Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation with France in the Midst of Macron's Visit to Spain (opens EL ESPAÑOL in a new tab)
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Not rated
11- Spain: Senate Rejects Ratification of Friendship Treaty with France (opens Capital.gr in a new tab)
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- Spanish Senate Rejects Friendship Treaty with France (opens Business Daily in a new tab)
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- Senate Rejects Treaty of Friendship with France with Vote Against PP and Vox (opens Noticias y radio online in a new tab)
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- The PP Rejects the Treaty of Friendship with France in the Senate, Despite the Endorsement of the Constitutional Court (opens À Punt in a new tab)
- The PP Tombs in the Senate the Treaty of Friendship with France in the Midst of Macron's Visit to Spain (opens El Plural in a new tab)
- The PP Tombs in the Senate the Treaty of Friendship with France in the Midst of Macron's Visit to Spain (opens The Objective in a new tab)
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- The PP Tombs the Treaty of Friendship with France in the Midst of Macron's Visit (opens lacronicabadajoz.com in a new tab)
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- The PP Tombs the Treaty of Friendship with France in the Midst of Macron's Visit (opens elcorreogallego.es in a new tab)
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- The PP Tombs the Treaty of Friendship with France in the Midst of Macron's Visit (opens elcorreoweb.es in a new tab)
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- The PP Tombs the Treaty of Friendship with France in the Midst of Macron's Visit (opens laprovincia.es in a new tab)
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- The PP Tombs the Treaty of Friendship with France in the Midst of Macron's Visit (opens informacion.es in a new tab)
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