Sanchez's Spanish Cabinet Sends Signal on Catalonia, Economy
- High-profile critic of separatists named foreign minister
- Budget chief offers guarantees against ‘unfair concessions’
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Pedro Sanchez’s first cabinet appointments show Spain’s new prime minister seeking to assert his government’s identity and authority by naming Catalans and women with heavyweight credentials to key posts.
He named European Commission Director General Nadia Calvino as economy minister and Carmen Calvo, a constitutional lawyer, as deputy prime minister. Meritxell Batet, a Catalan, will be in charge of the regional administrations ministry and Josep Borrell, a Catalan-born former President of the European Parliament, will be foreign minister.