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They should up their 2% to 5%,
he said, repeating his remarks earlier to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland I'm not sure we should be spending anything, but we should certainly be helping them,
Trump told reporters after signing an executive order in the Oval Office Now the army has returned to have some respect, ... but that’s not NATO.”
And at this moment, we have more than 3,800 men and women in peace missions, many of them with NATO,
The reality is, the whole thing is not very transparent,
It's true that we need to spend more,
Pascual de la Parte said of Spain The truth is defense spending is not popular in European countries, whether it’s Spain or another European country,
said Nicolás Pascual de la Parte, a former Spanish ambassador to NATO who is currently a member of European Parliament from Spain’s conservative Popular Party Spain, as a member of NATO, is a serious, trustworthy, responsible and committed ally,
Defense Minister Margarita Robles told reporters this week following comments made by Trump to a journalist who asked the U.S. president about NATO’s low spenders There is no agreement between allies in choosing which criteria decide the real spending effort, ... Ultimately, they can involve very disparate realities.”
This is something that politicians here always feel and fear,
Rest assured, Spain is very committed to achieving this goal of 2 percent of GDP on defense expenditure,
Sánchez said during an interview with CNBC on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, referring to NATO’s decade-old spending target In the last 10 years, we have also increased by 70 percent our total defense expenditure. If we take those figures in absolute terms, what we can say is that Spain is the 10th top contributor to NATO,
he added, trying to make the mathematical case that, actually, Madrid isn’t doing so badly We are a reliable partner and I think you have to look more broadly to see if a country is committed or not with the security of NATO's allies,