French President Emmanuel Macron Hosts Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez at Paris's Elysee Palace

Spain's caretaker prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, has been reaching out to other European leaders to seek support for his plans to increase Spain's influence in European institutions.In addition to having dinner with French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Sánchez has another one-on-one meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday afternoon, his office says.The meetings come after Spain's Socialists came first in Sunday's EU election in their country, winning 20 seats in the 751-seat European Parliament, more than any other Social Democrats in the 28-nation bloc.Sánchez will also have preliminary discussions with other European socialist heads of government before joining the rest of the EU's leaders in Brussels for a Tuesday night dinner.Spain is vying for one of the top jobs in the EU, seeking to promote caretaker Foreign Minister Josep Borrell — a former European Parliament president — as a possible replacement for Federica Mogherini as Europe's top diplomat.

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