{"id":214798,"date":"2025-06-26T03:05:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T03:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/214798\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T03:05:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T03:05:10","slug":"europe-managed-to-keep-trump-in-nato-now-what-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/214798\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe managed to keep Trump in NATO. Now what? \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The role of the NATO summit was to lay the foundations for what will happen next,&#8221; said Camille Grand, a former NATO assistant secretary-general. <\/p>\n<p>Make the 5 percent happen <\/p>\n<p>Options to boost defense spending include raising taxes, cutting public spending (including popular welfare and social programs), and issuing debt. The European Commission is helping with its new \u20ac150 billion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-ambassadors-agree-on-e150b-defense-lending-scheme\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">loans-for-weapons scheme dubbed SAFE<\/a>, and its planned smaller \u20ac1.5 billion European Defence Industry Programme. The EU&#8217;s next multi-annual budget is expected to earmark more cash for defense \u2014 but that will only kick off in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The only European countries with public finances that allow them to aim for this [5 percent] target are Germany, Poland, and the Baltic and Nordic countries,&#8221; said Fran\u00e7ois Heisbourg, senior adviser for Europe at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. &#8220;Everyone knows that France, Belgium, the U.K., Spain and Italy are absolutely not in a position to keep this type of commitment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the further from Russia, the harder the sell \u2014 as evidenced by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/spain-nato-canada-defense-target-spending-gdp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spain&#8217;s eleventh-hour<\/a> opposition to NATO&#8217;s new target.<\/p>\n<p>Another warning of potential political discontent over higher spending was a short bus ride away from the NATO summit. That&#8217;s where Italy&#8217;s former Prime Minister and anti-establishment leader Giuseppe Conte on Tuesday led a gathering of around 70 leftwing politicians from across Europe who signed a declaration bemoaning the continent\u2019s rearmament.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReaching 5 percent defense spending will inevitably require deep cuts to welfare, healthcare, education, social services, and business investment,\u201d Conte told POLITICO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;The role of the NATO summit was to lay the foundations for what will happen next,&#8221; said Camille&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[473,7057,32,34,2000,7704,299,5187,7058,36,1945,85427,1824,2199,2992,2597,2821,32949,1115,7061,332,104,657,49,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-214798","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-donald-trump","11":"tag-emmanuel-macron","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-eu-us-military-ties","14":"tag-europe","15":"tag-european","16":"tag-european-defense","17":"tag-france","18":"tag-friedrich-merz","19":"tag-general-petr-pavel","20":"tag-germany","21":"tag-italy","22":"tag-mark-rutte","23":"tag-military","24":"tag-nato","25":"tag-nato-summit","26":"tag-norway","27":"tag-procurement","28":"tag-russia","29":"tag-spain","30":"tag-ukraine","31":"tag-united-states","32":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114747456300529234","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214798","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=214798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}