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‘Cost of drama is too high’: NATO leaders meet in Turkey for annual summit
Allies are set to face pressure for credible plans to reach 5% of GDP on defense as leaders seek to avoid friction with President Donald Trump.
- On Tuesday, President Donald Trump arrived in Ankara for the NATO summit following a grueling week of Independence Day festivities and public relations setbacks involving the Great American State Fair.
- A senior European diplomat expressed concern that Trump would arrive in Turkey exhausted and angry following a 3:30 a.m. Saturday return from Mount Rushmore and a rally on the National Mall.
- Trump demanded loyalty from alliance members on social media, asserting, "The United States spends more money on NATO than any other country, by far, to protect them, without getting any benefit from so doing."
- Max Bergmann of the Center for Strategic and International Studies told the Washington Post, "Europeans are nervous that the way feels about NATO is that this is not fundamentally in U.S. interests."
- Trump plans to meet with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan before joining other alliance leaders for dinner as NATO gathers in Ankara for the high-stakes summit.
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Defence committee says PM empty-handed at NATO summit
The chair of the Defence Committee has said the Prime Minister will arrive at this week’s NATO summit in Ankara empty-handed, telling the Commons that the government has not set out a clear path to spending 3 per cent of GDP on defence, let alone the 3.5 per cent NATO target. Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi, the Labour MP for Slough who chairs the committee, put the criticism directly to Defence Secretary Dan Jarvis at defence questions on Monday. “With …
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