Speaking at NATO’s Summit in The Hague, Rutte emphasized that during the meeting would be adopted “Historic and Transformative Decisions” to which the Alliance will become “stronger, fairer and killer.”
“Our permanent commitment to Article 5, which guarantees that the attack on one member attacks at all, sends a strong message,” Rutte said in front of the world leaders, index.
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He stated that the key change will be an increase in the defense consumption of member states to 5% of GDP. Then he addressed the Trump directly, which was sitting next to him:
“Too long, the United States has worn too big part of the burden. It changes today,” Rutte said.
“Dear Donald, you enabled this change. Your leadership on this issue has already led to an additional one thousand billion dollars of defense consumption of European allies since 2016. years,” he added.
Trump, which has been criticizing European members for insufficient investment in defense for years, should be satisfied with that Rutte’s statement. The increase in military consumption is a key question in its foreign policy agenda.
(Vijesti.ba)
