{"id":75207,"date":"2026-05-17T22:49:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T22:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/75207\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T22:49:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T22:49:11","slug":"ft-nato-chief-to-put-pressure-on-eu-defense-companies-to-please-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/75207\/","title":{"rendered":"FT: NATO Chief to Put Pressure on EU Defense Companies to Please US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.islamtimes.com\/en\/news\/1280700\/ft-nato-chief-to-put-pressure-on-eu-defense-companies-please-us\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/n01280700-b.jpg\" alt=\"FT: NATO Chief to Put Pressure on EU Defense Companies to Please US\" title=\"FT: NATO Chief to Put Pressure on EU Defense Companies to Please US\" class=\"img-responsive\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>            Islam Times &#8211; NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte plans to put pressure on European defense corporations and agencies at a meeting in Brussels, persuading them to boost production to please US President Donald Trump, The Financial Times reported.According to the newspaper, the North Atlantic Alliance is interested in European industry helping to meet Washington&#8217;s demands for increased defense spending to mitigate Trump&#8217;s &#8220;anger&#8221; at the alleged inability of allies to support the United States in the conflict in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>The daily reported that Rheinmetall, Safran, Airbus, Saab, MBDA and Leonardo representatives will be present at the meeting.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In addition to increasing the number of factories and personnel to ramp up productivity, special attention will be paid to discussing issues of air defense and long-range missiles.<\/p>\n<p>On April 1, in an interview with Reuters, Trump stated that he felt disgusted with NATO and was considering withdrawing the United States from the alliance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, Trump explained that he was considering reviewing the United States&#8217; participation in NATO, since the alliance did not support Washington in the war on Tehran.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He also called NATO a &#8220;paper tiger&#8221; and admitted that he had never had much sympathy for the organization.&#13;\n  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Islam Times &#8211; NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte plans to put pressure on European defense corporations and agencies&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135],"tags":[5653,42804,5651,3219,42807,415,5666,1502,11984,399,2924,416,1111,807,42801,1188,4675,7594,10383,389,13572,396,7671,42805,42803,42802,349,3073,26423,12370,42808,5667,8746,735,42806,8649,5668,74,107],"class_list":{"0":"post-75207","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mark-rutte","8":"tag-a","9":"tag-agencies","10":"tag-and","11":"tag-at","12":"tag-boost","13":"tag-brussels","14":"tag-chief","15":"tag-companies","16":"tag-corporations","17":"tag-defense","18":"tag-donald","19":"tag-eu","20":"tag-european","21":"tag-financial","22":"tag-ft","23":"tag-general","24":"tag-in","25":"tag-islam","26":"tag-mark","27":"tag-mark-rutte","28":"tag-meeting","29":"tag-nato","30":"tag-on","31":"tag-persuading","32":"tag-plans","33":"tag-please","34":"tag-president","35":"tag-pressure","36":"tag-production","37":"tag-put","38":"tag-reported","39":"tag-rutte","40":"tag-secretary","41":"tag-the","42":"tag-them","43":"tag-times","44":"tag-to","45":"tag-trump","46":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116592362352635872","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}