{"id":502564,"date":"2025-10-15T22:17:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T22:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/502564\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T22:17:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T22:17:12","slug":"pressure-mounts-on-nato-allies-to-go-all-in-on-trump-arms-scheme-for-ukraine-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/502564\/","title":{"rendered":"Pressure mounts on NATO allies to go all-in on Trump arms scheme for Ukraine \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Canada, Germany and the Netherlands have pledged $2 billion in four separate PURL packages. And on Wednesday, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovenia and Finland among others were poised to finalize a fifth package, according to three NATO diplomats, who like others quoted in this story were granted anonymity to speak freely.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThanks to funding from allies, we are providing Ukraine with critical U.S. equipment,\u201d NATO chief Mark Rutte <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nato.int\/cps\/en\/natohq\/opinions_238506.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> as alliance defense ministers met in Brussels. \u201cAnd today, we heard from ally after ally about new contributions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But that growing support is also leaving those who haven\u2019t contributed \u2014 such as the U.K. and France \u2014 in an increasingly tight spot.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In total, 20 NATO allies have now pledged support for the scheme, Swedish Defense Minister P\u00e5l Jonson told POLITICO.<\/p>\n<p>Now, however, \u201cthere are expectations there should be fair burden sharing, and those who haven&#8217;t committed themselves need to do it.\u201d he said. Relying exclusively on existing donor countries for more cash \u201cis unsustainable in the long run,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFair burden sharing is something we [have] all been waiting [for],\u201d Estonian Defense Minister Hanno Pevkur told POLITICO, \u201cand as was said many times today \u2026 helping Ukraine today is a security guarantee also for us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Canada, Germany and the Netherlands have pledged $2 billion in four separate PURL packages. And&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1789,943,6178,473,7057,32,1112,7704,769,36,1824,13,714,1113,1114,1215,2992,12,1115,602,7061,811,104,812,3053,14,657,15,49,335,1116],"class_list":{"0":"post-502564","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-belgium","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-conflict","11":"tag-defense","12":"tag-defense-budgets","13":"tag-donald-trump","14":"tag-estonia","15":"tag-eu-us-military-ties","16":"tag-finland","17":"tag-france","18":"tag-germany","19":"tag-headlines","20":"tag-joe-biden","21":"tag-latvia","22":"tag-lithuania","23":"tag-luxembourg","24":"tag-mark-rutte","25":"tag-news","26":"tag-norway","27":"tag-pete-hegseth","28":"tag-procurement","29":"tag-security","30":"tag-spain","31":"tag-sweden","32":"tag-the-netherlands","33":"tag-top-stories","34":"tag-ukraine","35":"tag-united-kingdom","36":"tag-united-states","37":"tag-war-in-ukraine","38":"tag-weapons"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115380502097897302","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502564","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=502564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}