NATO approves Spike to Spend Defense and Stress of Ironclad’s security guarantee ‘

The leaders of the NATO meet the Hague agreed to ramp the defense to spend 5% of their countries outputs in 2025, after the months of pressure from President Donald Trump.

In a statement they say they are united against “deep threat of security and challenges, especially long threats Russia produced in Euro-Atlantic Security and the continued threat of terror”.

The Hague Summit is described by many leaders as historical, and the Secretary General Mark Rutte said the decisions made on Wednesday Wednesday while pushing peace.

Leaders also said they were strengthening their “Ironclad commitment to collective defense” – Known to guarantee each other’s security if there is a member attacked.

The commitment to raise defense expenditure for more than 10 years involves at least 3.5% of the GDP of the Defense Member of 2035, plus 1.5% of the security of investments involved in security infrastructure.

“Within the upper, an ally, the United States, brought most of the burden,” said Secretary General Mark Rutte before the start of the meeting, adds: “That’s the change now.”

The US president said it was a “great victory for everyone, I think. We can be equal soon, and that’s how it should be”.

However Spanish is specifically opposed to 5% target ahead of the meeting. Economy Minister Carlos Cuerpo said Madrid has made a “great effort” to reach a target of 2.1%. “Discussion is about percentage error,” he said to Spanish radio.

The Belgian government also expressed reservations, but Prime Minister Bart Der Were Wever told reporters that while it was not easy “3.5% within 10 years a realistic purpose”.

The Hague Summit, who began a dinner on Tuesday night managed by King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima, which was scaled over the last two and a half hours of the end.

Rutte told NATO leaders they met with a “dangerous moment”, and that the guarantee of defending each other, a strong message “.

As the leaders gather for the traditional “family picture”, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez showed himself at the distant end of the group.

Slovakia also raised concerns about the large hike to spending defense, but President Peter Pellegrinii showed Bratislava not working on the road.

Trump’s visit to Hague was his first trip to a NATO Summit since 2019 and because he met Volodym in Ukraine in the paths afterwards.

However, the US president preferred to talk about the Middle East conflict than the War in Ukraine, when he talked to reporters on Wednesday.

“He had a little harder, Zelensky, a good man,” Trump said. “I talked to Putin … he volunteered help Iran. I said I was a favor, help us in Russia, not Iran.”

In their final communications, members of the NATO members emphasize their commitments to provide support for Ukraine, “that the Kyiv defense industry and the defense of the Assessment of Kyiv.

The US president first appeared to produce questions about the Marant Mutual Defense in Alliance, known as the article of five.

“There are so many definitions of Article five, you know right?” He told the Air Force journalists on a Tuesday.

Mark Rutte later searches concerns about Trump’s comments, that his European comments should stop worrying about US defense to defense and support Ukraine.

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