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Upper house of the Cortes Generales
The Senate is the upper house of the Cortes Generales, the bicameral parliament of the Kingdom of Spain. The Congress of Deputies is the lower house. The Senate meets in the Palace of the Senate in Madrid. The presiding officer of the Senate is the president of the Senate, who is elected by the members at the first sitting after each national election.
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President of France since 2017
Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron is a French politician who has served as President of France since 2017. He has been a member of Renaissance since founding the party in 2016. Macron previously served as Deputy Secretary-General to the President from 2012 to 2014 and Minister of Economics and Finance from 2014 to 2016 under President François Hollande.
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Capital and largest city of Spain
Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. It had a population of over 3.4 million in the city proper in 2025, and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.8 million. Madrid is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), after Berlin, and its metropolitan area is the second-largest in the EU, after Paris. The municipality covers an area of 605.77 square kilometres (233.89 sq mi). Madrid lies on the River Manzanares in the central part of the Iberian Peninsula at about 660 metres (2,170 ft) above mean sea level.
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The president of the Government promises that the Cortes will approve an agreement of these characteristics before the end of the legislature, while Macron considers the Senate's rejection a "setback"
A 142-106 Senate vote has stopped Spain from ratifying its friendship treaty with France.