Increase defense spending to 5%? “Trump releases numbers far above the real ones and then hopes that negotiations will lead to intermediate numbers”

Vítor Gabriel Oliveira, secretary general of SEDES Europe, believes that Trump “releases numbers far above the real ones and then hopes that the negotiation will lead to intermediate numbers, which in themselves are very advantageous”. “Even with this intermediate value, the US will be in a more favored position than it is today, because NATO countries will start giving much more money to the organization”, he adds.