{"id":12260,"date":"2026-02-13T20:51:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T20:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/12260\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T20:51:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T20:51:04","slug":"nato-stronger-than-ever-after-greenland-crisis-rutte-says-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/12260\/","title":{"rendered":"NATO stronger than ever after Greenland crisis, Rutte says \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At a Thursday meeting of NATO\u2019s defense ministers, \u201cI felt a shift in mindset where the Europeans were not only saying, \u2018Hey, we are going to spend much more,\u2019\u201d Rutte said. \u201cThe shift in mindset is Europeans saying, \u2018We need to take more the lead in NATO,\u2019 &#8230; and this is exactly what the United States wanted.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>That \u201cmakes it easier for the United States to stay anchored in NATO,\u201d Rutte added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The remarks come one day after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/elbridge-colby-nato-europe-defense-spending\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an unusually cordial intervention<\/a> from Deputy Pentagon chief Elbridge Colby at Thursday\u2019s meeting of alliance ministers in Brussels \u2014 which some Europeans took as a sign the U.S. wanted to put the Greenland episode to bed.<\/p>\n<p>Colby called for a new \u201cNATO 3.0,\u201d where Europeans pay more for their own defense and slim NATO\u2019s activities down to its core task of defending alliance territory \u2014 an idea Rutte backed on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>His comments also reflect a sense of relief in Munich from many Europeans hoping that the worst of last month\u2019s transatlantic tensions have eased \u2014 at least for the time being.<\/p>\n<p>However, Rutte <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/mark-rutte-donald-trump-flattery-nato\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">has recently come under fire<\/a> from some allies for going too far in his defense of Trump and the U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At a Thursday meeting of NATO\u2019s defense ministers, \u201cI felt a shift in mindset where the Europeans were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[3371,184,4473,57,1596,74,76],"class_list":["post-12260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-greenland","tag-defense-budgets","tag-donald-trump","tag-eu-us-military-ties","tag-greenland","tag-mark-rutte","tag-nato","tag-united-states"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}