{"id":201850,"date":"2025-06-21T06:26:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T06:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/201850\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T06:26:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T06:26:17","slug":"italian-defense-minister-says-nato-as-it-is-has-no-reason-to-exist-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/201850\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian defense minister says NATO \u2018as it is\u2019 has no reason to exist \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Crosetto’s comments come ahead of the NATO leaders’ summit in The Hague next week, where the alliance is likely to agree on a higher spending target of 5 percent of GDP to placate U.S. President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

Among the leaders attending is Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. At a meeting in Rome earlier this month with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte, her office<\/a> \u201creaffirmed support for Ukraine and the Atlantic Alliance\u2019s role as an essential pillar for collective defence.\u201d<\/p>\n

But according to Crosetto, NATO has failed in its original mission.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf NATO was created to guarantee peace and mutual defense, it must either become an organization that takes on this task by engaging with the Global South \u2014 and thus become something profoundly different \u2014 or we will not achieve the goal of having security within rules that apply to everyone,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Most NATO members see the alliance as playing a key role in spearheading the rearmament and defense of Europe to fend off the growing threat posed by Russia.<\/p>\n

Italy has traditionally been one of the alliance’s lowest spenders \u2014 although the government said in April<\/a> that this year, it will hit NATO’s current target of spending 2 percent of gross domestic product on defense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crosetto’s comments come ahead of the NATO leaders’ summit in The Hague next week, where the alliance is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[473,7057,2000,299,5187,805,2440,81466,2199,2992,2821,32949,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-201850","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-defense","9":"tag-defense-budgets","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-foreign-policy","14":"tag-giorgia-meloni","15":"tag-guido-crosetto","16":"tag-italy","17":"tag-mark-rutte","18":"tag-nato","19":"tag-nato-summit","20":"tag-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}