On the alliance’s decision to increase military spending to 5% of GDP. From Brussels / Belgium On their recent summit of heads of state, NATO members have agreed on increasing each country’s defense spending to 5% of the GDP. This decision caused a lot of criticism and opposition in various European countries, leading to mass demonstrations in Madrid, Rome, and ...
The recent NATO summit with its approved Strategic Concept and announced military deployments keeps on fueling the debates especially in the European press. United World International has compiled a selection of European commentary on the summit, where judgments differ widely. Ukrainian newspaper: “Success for the Alliance” The Ukrainskaya Prawda from Ukraine considers the NATO summit a “Success for the Alliance” ...
By Sergio Rodriguez Gelfenstein * Following the recent strategy decided by NATO at its Madrid Summit, which establishes that China “challenges its interests, security and values”, and that Russia is “the most significant and direct threat” to its interests, the world is moving very quickly towards its partition in terms of the structure of the international system. The event reaffirmed ...
By Craig Murray Historian, former British Ambassador, human rights activist Boris Johnson sees himself as the heritor of a world bestriding Imperial mantle, but in truth he cannot bestride the Irish Sea. The overshadowing of the G7 summit by his peculiar concern that Irish sausages should not be eaten by those in Northern Ireland who do not believe in evolution, ...
Following Donald Trump’s defeat and Joseph Biden’s win of the US Presidency, hopes in Europe for the restoration of the transatlantic alliance, that is, growing say for the EU in global affairs were high. On the NATO Defense Minister summit, held 17th and 18th of February, these hopes faced reality: The new US Administration demonstrated its will to lead Europe ...
NATO Defense Ministers will held a summit on the 17th and 18th of February via teleconference. This will be the first NATO summit after the inauguration of the Biden Administration. NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg has announced among others the following points as the agenda: – NATO 2030 Initiative – Increased burden sharing – NATO mission in Afghanistan – NATO mission ...