Sánchez's management is not liked in Europe

The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has devoted considerable effort in recent months to showing himself to Europe

in dealing with all the consequences -political, economic or security- that the war unleashed as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

In an attempt to exhibit the profile of a statesman and to make his voice more heard in Brussels, he has staged

both in

the last European Councils as with recent decisions such as Moncloa's initial refusal of the energy saving plan that the Commission presented weeks ago.

And to this are added several tours that he has made through different capitals of the continent to try to gather support,

.

And yet, that strategy has not caught on among Spanish public opinion, much less among the citizens of the Old Continent.

Because, as we publish today, Pedro Sánchez

and all its derivatives, fundamentally runaway hyperinflation, the gas crisis or the economic slowdown that threatens a recession.

This is what emerges from the Euroskopia survey, the consortium made up of eight demographic companies -including the Spanish Sigma Dos- in nine European countries: Italy, France, Germany, Austria, Greece, the Netherlands, Poland and Portugal, in addition to ours.

As a whole, Sánchez only achieves an average grade of 4.5, one tenth less than the next worst-rated Western leader, the German chancellor

, also social democrat.

At the opposite pole, the Europeans describe the action that the Ukrainian president is carrying out in such extraordinarily difficult circumstances

with a 6.2.

Respondents also approve of the French president,

-with a 5.2-, of whom the negotiating efforts that have promoted these months have penetrated;

to the US president,

-5.1- and the already resigned Italian Prime Minister

-with a 5-.

Sánchez must settle for staying far ahead, yes, of the Chinese and Russian presidents,

, in this last case pointed out by the Europeans as

for its neo-imperialist irrationality.

Sánchez's low rating is due to the fact that, together with the German, he is the one who obtains

.

But also because in many countries where the survey has been carried out, its management is viewed with disfavor.

It has, among other burdens, the perpetual division within the Government, with

.

The dissatisfaction of the Spanish with the way in which Sánchez is facing the rise in energy and inflation also penalizes him a lot.

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