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Asked by reporters at a European Union summit, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez didn't give the idea much credit.

We're working on official documents and positions.

Asked for comment, NATO clarified there is no way a member country can be suspended or kicked out of the alliance.

For NPR News, I'm Terry Schultz in Brussels.

Reuters says it's seen a confidential memo outlining ways the Trump administration could punish countries that in particular were not willing to let the U.S.

use their military bases or airspace to conduct strikes on Iran.

The memo reportedly suggests trying to suspend Spain from NATO over its blocking of access for the U.S.

military in the Iran war.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez didn't give the idea much credit.

We don't work on emails, he said.

We're working on official documents and positions.

Sanchez added that Spain always collaborates with allies in accordance with international law.

President Trump warned several times about possible retaliation, saying he'll remember which countries didn't support the war.

The man likely to be Hungary's next prime minister, Peter Magyar, has pledged to improve ties with the European Union after years in which outgoing leader Viktor Orban vetoed aid to Ukraine and forced the bloc to soften penalties on Moscow for its full-scale invasion.

Zsuzsanna Wege of the German Marshall Fund think tank says reversing this should be one of Magyar's top priorities.

Because Magyar's Tisza party won more than two-thirds of parliamentary seats in Sunday's vote, he will have the political weight to push through real change.

For NPR News, I'm Terry Schultz in Brussels.

Hungary has chosen Europe.

That's how European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen responded on social media to news Prime Minister Orban has lost power after 16 years.

She added the union grows stronger with Peter Magyar's win.