The Government has expressed its discomfort by the words of NATO Secretary General, Mark Rutte, and nuanced that Actually the executive will do “as much as possible” to reach 2% From defense spending, “from here to summer”, as he has collected Europa Press.
These sources have assured that what Routte was communicated that “from here to summer” Spain would try to get as much as possible ” To this percentage thus denying the statements of the secretary general of NATO, who assured Wednesday during an event at the Warsaw Faculty (Poland), which “Spain wants to reach 2% (from GDP in military spending) this summer”, in the line of other countries such as Belgium.
From Moncloa they claim that “That was not so” and that there is “bother for lightness” with which Routte speaks in those terms of an issue that also concerns other states. For his part, Rutte said that countries such as Portugal and Italy “are debating these issues,” he said, before asserting that “all those who do not reach this threshold” are seriously discussing the possibility “to achieve this goal for overcoming it: “We have to spend much more.”
New promises from European countries
In this regard, he said that since the president of the United States, Donald Trump, returned to the White House, on January 20, The different European countries have supposedly made new promises to reach 2%, While he would have liked that “things” would have “started to change” when he came to lead NATO, on October 1, to succeed Jens Stoltenberg.
The head of the Atlantic Alliance explained that The increase in defense spending is not “because Americans want”, but because You have to “do it for Russia and the threat.” “By the way, when spending more, a fairer cast of the burden with the US will also be achieved, because the USA.
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