"Instead, he noted that during a summit in The Hague in 2025, the UK and other alliance members had agreed to increase their own defence spending to match US levels, in response to Trump’s demand that Europe take the lead in defending the continent.
“We need more UK and more Europe in the alliance,” Rutte said, because Nato “faces the most dangerous and complex security environment in a generation” with a return to wars in Europe and the Middle East, and wider geopolitical uncertainty."
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