All right, moving on. US National Security adviser Mike Walls has said that all NATO members need to be spending 2% of their gross domestic product on defense by the next NATO summit set for June. In a press conference at the White House, Walls said the United States fully supports NATO allies and the Article 5 commitment but it’s time for the European allies to step up. He pointed out that a third of the NATO countries are still not meeting the 2% minimum spending commitment made a decade ago, Walls further said.
President Trump has made it clear that the minimum needs to be met. President Trump’s made that clear and the minimum needs to be met. We need to be at 100% in this June at the NATO Summit and then let’s talk about exceeding it, which is what President Trump has been talking about with 5% of GDP. Europe needs to step up for their own defense as a partner and we can be friends and allies and have those tough conversations. Meanwhile, NATO Secretary General Mark Rota called on the Allies to increase defense spending to 2% of.
US Urges NATO Allies To Hit Spending Target
GDP by next summer at a press conference in Slovakia. He said the Allies who lag behind in hitting the defense spending target might get a call from a very nice man in Washington. While Rota did not say explicitly who he was referring to, he said it was critical for all the NATO members to meet the target. He said 23 had already done so from the 32 members. I tell them if you do not react to my phone calls, you might get phone calls from a very nice man in Washington who might be less, um, well, let’s say, having less of a time, has more.
time limit I guess on what he wants to achieve so if not me, then he gets phone calls from somebody else. We all really have to get to the 2% that is crucial separately. EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyden also said last week the commission will propose exempting defense from EU limits on government spending amid pressure from US President Donald Trump for Europe to finance its own defense. US president Trump has repeatedly called for the spending threshold to be raised to 5% of GDP.
