Rutte stands for members to increase military spending at 3.5 percent of GDP and to commit an additional 1.5 percent on wider security consumption to fulfill the request of the US President Donald Trump for a goal of five percent. The last month said he assumed that the goal would be arranged at the summit on 24. and 25. June.
ROUTTE will in speech in the London Analytical Group Chatham House claim that it is necessary to “400-percent increase in the air and rocket crabs” for maintaining a credible deterrence and defense.
– In Ukraine, we see Russia applies terror from the air, so we will strengthen the shield that protects our sky – he will say, according to the fragments of his speech submitted by his office.
– The fact is that we need a quantum jump in our collective defense. The fact is that we must have more strength and ability to fully implement our defense plans. The fact is that the danger will not disappear even when the war in Ukraine is over – says Rutte.
With little relaxation in Russian war against Ukraine, despite calls to end fire, European countries are under pressure to increase defensive consumption after Trump signaled the policy change, encouraging the region to better protect themselves.
Several countries claim to do so, and the UK promises an increase with 2.3 percent to 2.5 percent of GDP until 2027. and three percent of GDP later. Germany said that it would take approximately 50,000 to 60,000 additional active soldiers within the new NATO goals, AFP reports.
(Vijesti.ba / Fena)
