US EditionNATO chief wishes ‘good luck’ to those who think Europe can defend itself without US help
Rutte warned Europe must double defense spending to 10% of GDP and build a costly nuclear arsenal to defend without U.S. support, citing the U.S. nuclear umbrella as vital.
- On Monday, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte warned Europe cannot defend itself without U.S. support, emphasizing transatlantic reliance at the European Parliament.
- The diplomatic crisis over Greenland intensified debate about European military independence after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to seize Greenland but backed off following talks with Rutte last week.
- At NATO's summit in The Hague, European allies including Canada pledged 5% of GDP on defence by 2035, supported by Article Five of NATO's founding Washington treaty.
- Rutte said NATO would take more responsibility for the defence of the Arctic but left talks over U.S. presence to Greenlandic and Danish authorities.
- Rutte said EU countries would have to double defence spending from the NATO target to 10 percent and spend 'billions and billions' on nuclear arms, warning Europe would lose the US nuclear umbrella.
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Can Europe defend itself – even without the United States? While this question has been raised louder and louder in several EU countries, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has now given an unequivocal answer to it. Before MEPs in Brussels, he made it clear: an independent European defence without the United States is not realistic for the foreseeable future. "Continue dreaming," Rutte said on Monday in the direction of those voices calling for a…
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Minute MirrorNATO chief warns Europe cannot defend itself without US
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has dismissed calls for a standalone European defence force, warning that Europe cannot defend itself without the United States and that attempts to go it alone would only weaken collective security. Speaking in Brussels during a joint session of the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs and Security and Defence committees, Rutte argued that talk of a separate “European pillar” risks confusion, duplication and s…
'Keep dreaming': NATO chief says Europe can't defend itself without U.S.
Read: 2 min NATO chief Mark Rutte warned Monday Europe cannot defend itself without the United States, in the face of calls for the continent to stand on its own feet after tensions over Greenland. U.S. President Donald Trump roiled the transatlantic alliance by threatening to seize the autonomous Danish territory — before backing off after talks with Rutte last week. The diplomatic crisis it sparked gave fresh momentum to those advocating for E…
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