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Your support makes all the difference.<\/strong>Read more<\/p>\n Volodymyr Zelensky<\/a> is meeting with Donald Trump<\/a> after Nato<\/a> leaders backed a big increase in defence spending.<\/p>\n Leaders gathered in The Hague<\/a> for a Nato summit tailor-made for the US<\/a> President, endorsed a higher defence spending goal of 5% of GDP by 2035 \u2013 a response to a demand by Trump<\/p>\n Mr Zelensky and his aides have said they want to talk to Mr Trump about buying US<\/a> weapons, including Patriot missile defence systems and increasing pressure on Moscow through tougher sanctions.<\/p>\n It comes as a row has broken out over the language used in the Nato declaration, with some reports suggesting the alliance has softened its stance on Russia<\/a> to please Mr Trump.<\/p>\n The communique released on Wednesday refers to Nato\u2019s unity \u201cin the face of profound security threats and challenges, in particular the long-term threat posed by Russia to Euro-Atlantic security\u201d and reaffirms support for Ukraine<\/a>, but does not explicitly condemn the Russian invasion.<\/p>\n However, Sir Keir Starmer<\/a> rejected these reports, saying: \u201cThe position in Nato has not changed nor has my position changed.\u201c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NATO chief Mark Rutte calls Trump \u2018daddy\u2019Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[2000,299,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-214780","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114747416501793272","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214780","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=214780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}