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NATO leaders agree to hike military spending and restate 'ironclad commitment' to collective defence
NATO leaders have agreed on a massive hike in defence spending after pressure from US President Donald Trump, and expressed ...
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Back to the Future: NATO Leaders Hark Back to the Cold War as They Meet to Hike Defense Spending
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte was upbeat that the military organization will agree on massive spending hikes at a ...
NATO leaders hold key summit in The Hague to discuss new defence spending target
NATO member leaders, including U.S. President Donald Trump, were holding a summit on Wednesday in the Netherlands. They are expected to agree upon a new defence spending target of 5% of gross domestic ...
Trump affirms his commitment to NATO's Article 5 pledge for mutual defense
As a candidate in 2016, Trump suggested that as president he would not necessarily heed the alliance’s mutual defense guarantees outlined in Article 5 of the NATO treaty. In March of this year, he ...
Mark Rutte's approach to be put to the test at NATO summit
The secretary-general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, who has been in office for nine months, has strived to ...
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Carney, NATO allies to debate new defence spending target today
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte's proposal would break that into two parts. The first 3.5 per cent would be for core ...
Carney, NATO allies agree to hike defence spending target to 5% by 2035
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said alliance members have agreed to hike their defence-spending target to five per cent of annual GDP by 2035. As part of the new plan, allies will now have to ...
Rutte's Mission To Keep NATO United and Strong
At the White House in March, President Trump asked NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte whether his current position is tougher than his former job as prime minister of the Netherlands. Though ...