Sánchez and Biden have just begun their bilateral meeting in the Oval Office of the White House. The meeting will last for about an hour.

The US president has thanked Spain for its support in the war in Ukraine and has declared that immigration is "a challenge for all countries" The COP28 (United Nations Conference on Climate Change) and the rotating Presidency of the EU that Spain will exercise in the second half of this year are also on the agenda of the meeting. The Spanish president said: "We would never have believed that democracy could be in danger here"