U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday expressed his dissatisfaction with Spain’s comparatively low military expenditure before his arrival at the NATO summit in The Hague. Trump told journalists on the flight from Washington to Europe that Spain’s defence spending was “unfair” to the others. Trump also posted a chart depicting defence expenditure by NATO allies…
NATO’s plans to rearm member states, boost military budgets, and reform its command structure are being shaped in preparation for a potential military clash with Russia, according to Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko. “If we look at NATO, we really see this,” Grushko told RIA Novosti. “It is reflected not only in exercises, but…
NATO Secretary-General, Mark Rutte on Wednesday announced that allies would agree on new defence capability targets at the upcoming meeting of the alliance’s defence ministers. According to Rutte, these targets will set out what forces and concrete capabilities the allies need to provide to strengthen our deterrence and defence. ”Air and missile defence, long-range weapons,…
Ukraine, which is defending itself against a full-scale Russian invasion, has received an invitation to the upcoming NATO summit in The Hague. “We have been invited to the NATO summit. I think that is important,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said. The invitation was extended to Zelensky during his meeting with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte in…
The European Union and NATO have expressed strong solidarity with the Czech Republic following an alleged cyberattack by Chinese-linked hackers that targeted the Czech Foreign Ministry. According to a statement from the EU, the Czech government identified the perpetrators as Advanced Persistent Threat 31 (APT31), a hacking group reportedly associated with China’s Ministry of State…
The Kremlin said on Monday that the position of U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration on ruling out NATO membership for Ukraine gave Moscow satisfaction, but declined to comment on Trump’s hopes for a peace deal this week. Trump, seeking to be remembered as a peacemaker, has repeatedly said he wants to end the “bloodbath” of…
Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, says he has planned to meet with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President António Costa in Brussels on Wednesday. The meeting is expected to boost relations with the bloc. Trudeau’s trip was announced days after the U.S. suspended its planned tariffs of up to 25per…
Chancellor Olaf Scholz, on Tuesday, said that the German Navy would contribute ships to defend infrastructure in the Baltic Sea. He said this was amid concerns about Russia’s so-called “shadow fleet’’ of oil tankers and recent incidents of damage to cables. Scholz, who is attending a gathering in Helsinki on Baltic Sea security, said that…
Former NATO Secretary-General, Jens Stoltenberg ,is to travel to Washington for the inauguration of incoming U.S. president Donald Trump on Jan. 20. Stoltenberg, who is set to become the head of the Munich Security Conference (MSC), told dpa on Tuesday that his focus would be strengthening U.S.-European relations in his new role. Stoltenberg is expected…
New NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte is confident that the United States will remain in the defence alliance, even if Donald Trump becomes the 47th president of the United States. Rutte, in an interview with German public broadcaster ZDF on Monday evening, said he believed the U.S. and presidential candidates Donald Trump and Kamala Harris stood…
