US EditionNATO summit opens amid discord over defence spending and Ukraine
- NATO leaders, including U.S. President Donald Trump, gathered in The Hague on June 23, 2025, for a two-day summit focused on boosting defence spending and security cooperation.
- The summit follows Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine and intense political pressure from Trump to raise the defence spending target to 5% of GDP, which Spain rejected as unreasonable.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy attended a series of meetings but was excluded from the leaders' main session, reflecting uncertainty amid his country's frozen NATO membership bid.
- NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte emphasized that current times are considerably more perilous and highlighted that European countries contributed the majority—around 60%—of the military assistance received by Ukraine in 2024.
- The summit aimed to secure agreement on the 5% GDP defence spending goal to strengthen collective defence, though divisions remain over financial commitments and NATO’s scope regarding Russia.
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"The United States (...) is sending a message that it wants a stronger Europe within a strong NATO," says Linas Kojala, head of the Center for Geopolitical and Security Studies, about the NATO summit in The Hague.
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DailyTruthReportNATO summit: What to know
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s two-day summit started in the Netherlands on Tuesday with over 9,000 people expected to attend, according to Dutch officials. With 45 world leaders in attendance, the summit’s top focuses are the alliance’s commitment to defense…
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said today in The Hague that the military alliance cares a lot about the Western Balkans and that not mentioning it in the declaration adopted at the alliance summit does not mean a change in attitude towards that region.
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