Germany promises fair part of European defense while NATO leaders come to Hague Summit

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz warned that Russian president just understood the language of strength and the “historic” of our summit on Tuesday to seek to secure Europeans to come.

Merz told the hours of the German parliament before the summit was due to the beginning that Vladimir Putin remained part of Russia, and he said the “fair part of this” fair part “to protect Europe.

The US Donald Trump president is on the way to Hague for his first NATO Summit since 2019 where all 32 leaders are set to spend deprastructure.

Ahead of a Summit launched by the Israeli-Iran conflict, Nato Secretary General Rutte told his US association with defense and focusing on Ukraine.

He pressed the US president and the US leadership with the “total assurance” in NATO, with an expectation of the military spending in America.

Rutte says Europe and Canada have already focused on over $ 35bn (£ 26bn) in military support for Ukraine this year.

Ten people were killed in Russian attacks in Ukraine on Tuesday, and the German chancellor said every attempt to bring Russia to the negotiation table.

The attacks on the mystery of the eastern town of Dnipro and the nearby town of Samar killed 11 people and injured another 150, according to the president of the region of Serhiy Lysak. Many children were caught in the Dnipro attack, which destroyed a kindergarten and passenger train.

An earlier strike of the Sumy missile in the northeast kill three people, including a child.

Volangymyr’s Volangymyr Zelensky Ukraine, who reached the Hague, for meeting Donald Trump on NATO Summit paths. It was their first encounter because they met at Pope Francis’s funeral in the Vatican in April.

NATO members are expected to approve a large new investment plan to raise benchmark for investment in defense at 5% of GDP.

Many of the allies are below the commitment to spend the GDP of the defense of 2035, but the German government supports Tuesday’s budget agreement to hit the target of 2029.

Some € 62.4bn (£ 53bn) are spent on defense in 2025, to climb € 152.8bn in 2029, regarding debt development and special funds.

“We do not do that as a favor of the US and its president, we have made it from our own view and conviction, because Russia is active in the security and freedom of whole euro-atlantic.”

During the summit, Merz was due to meeting the Prime Minister of UK Sir Keir Starmer Starmer and President of France Emmanuel Macron.

Mark Rutte spends a lot of nine months since NATO’s overall secretary is getting allies to make the target of 5% target. Number is more than double members of NATO by NATO by 2% and as unimaginable – and unrealistic – mostly when President Trump has placed it in January.

The two days of NATO Summit were scaled back, so after the dinner on Tuesday managed by Dutch King, there was a working session under three hours on Wednesday and a five-paragraph statement on Wednesday.

The words in the statement of statement are the key.

While 3.5% of the target expenditure will cover defense defense requirements, 1.5% are available in “participating in sales of anything from infrastructure infrastructure.

Reaching 3.5% Core Defense Spending Target will still need an important adjustment for most of NATO countries. In addition to 32 allies, 27 spends under 3%, with eight flights well under the 2% threshold specified in 2014 alliance.

On Monday, Prime Minister Keir Starmer promised that UK will meet 5% target in 2035.

He said the UK should “navigate this period of radical uncertainty with the ability, speed and a clear eye of national interest”. The UK government said expected to spend 2.6% of the GDP of the Core Defense within two years, by 1.5% of the defense-related areas.

Under the rung is Spain, whose defense expenditures under 1.3%.

Madrid should double the fund to meet the new rutte target – something that the socialist prime minister has long opposed Peter Sánchez.

It is also, which is not popular, not popular at home – not least in his left wing manage-mangenting – at a time when Sánchez’s government suffers.

On Sunday Sánchez said Spanish reached an agreement to see it expelled from the target – something quickly pushed to something Rutte. “Nato is completely convinced by Spain to spend 3.5% to get there,” he said on Monday.

Sánchez’s suggestion to a lower spending door is enough for Belgium and Slovakia to express the interests of a spare of an integrated alliance.

“I can assure you that within weeks our diplomats work hard to get flexibility mechanisms,” Belgium minister Minister Minister Minister Prouvot said. Spending Brussels today is in 1.3% – and Slovakia also says it’s entitled to decide when the new target will come true.

Despite their comments, all 32 states are expected to sign new vow.

As NATO leaders and the leaders of more than a dozen partner states that have been heading to Hague, train travel from the airstory schiphol is disturbed by the wiring damaged by fire.

The security minister David Van Weel said could not be dismissed. “It can be a group of activists, it can be a country. It can be anything,” he told the public broadcaster nos. “The most important thing today is to fix the wiring and get traffic again.”