NATO countries announced on Wednesday (25) a commitment to invest 5% of GDP in defense over the next ten years.
The 32 members of the Atlantic Military Alliance agreed to reach the new milestone by 2035. Today, investments in defense of NATO countries are around 2%.
Leaders of member countries justified the movement because of the long -term threat imposed by Russia on European and Atlantic security. Beyond the constant danger of terrorism.
The European Union suffers from a fragile fiscal situation and the expansion of investment in defense would press the expenses to maintain the welfare state of the bloc countries.
Scenario that caused Spain to deny last week any possibility of exceeding 2.1% of GDP in military spending.
The agreement, however, required the group to decrease joint ambitions in search of consensus.
The 2025 summit has not repeated the reiterated promise in recent years of including Ukraine under the group’s military umbrella.
In a bilateral meeting, Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky appealed for US President Donald Trump to open the way to buying the Patriot anti -aircraft defense system.
Trump said he was going to think about the case. And criticized Russian President Vladimir Putin for the advancement of the offensive against the Ukrainian territory.
Trump left NATO’s summit with a victorious air. In addition to the commitment to expand defense spending, the Republican also had the public and private flattery of the entity’s secretary general, Mark Rutte.
Still on the way to Hague, Trump has posted a message sent by Rutte in which the leader says he would reach something “no president has managed to do in recent decades.”
At the summit, commenting on the ceasefire agreement between Iran and Israel, Rutte qualified Trump as a father who teaches a lesson to his children.
“Sometimes Dad needs to use strong language,” Rutte said.
The metaphor that pleased the American.
“He did it very lovingly. Dad, you’re my daddy,” Trump said.
