News
| Date | Title | |
| 22 Mar. 2021 |  |
Foreign Ministers to lay the groundwork for upcoming NATO Summit NATO Foreign Ministers will meet on Tuesday and Wednesday (23-24 March 2021) to set the stage for the upcoming Summit in Brussels. |
| 19 Mar. 2021 |  |
NATO Headquarters hosts first-ever conference on LGBTQ+ perspectives in the workplace NATO Headquarters hosted its first-ever internal conference on LGBTQ+ perspectives in the workplace on Friday (19 March 2021). Organised by the staff-led “Proud @ NATO” volunteer group, the online event brought together around 130 participants across civilian and military staffs, as well as national delegations, to discuss the experiences and challenges of LGBTQ+ people at work. |
| 18 Mar. 2021 |  |
NATO Deputy Secretary General advocates for gender equality and women’s leadership In a NATO-led online conference on Gender equality and leadership: are today’s leaders leading enough? on 18 March 2021, NATO’s Deputy Secretary General Mircea Geoană called for more women in leadership positions, including at NATO. |
| 18 Mar. 2021 |  | As an international organisation, NATO is characterised by diversity. People from different backgrounds and cultures, with different work styles and ways of thinking, work here. The Alliance’s Internship Programme offers opportunities to experience this international environment through a variety of fields including communications, finance, human resources, international relations, IT, law and political science. The 19th cycle of the programme opened on 17 March 2021 for placement in 2022. Applications will be accepted until 2 May 2021. |
| 18 Mar. 2021 |  | Deputy Secretary General Mircea Geoană stressed the importance of strong interoperability between Allies in order to keep NATO’s technological edge at the 4th European Cybersecurity Forum – CYBERSEC Brussels Leaders’ Foresight – on Thursday (18 March 2021). |
| 18 Mar. 2021 |  | Today (18 March 2021), NATO Deputy Secretary General Mircea Geoană talked about the development of relations between NATO and Bosnia and Herzegovina and about the Alliance’s continued commitment to stability in the Western Balkans, at an international conference on “Euro-Atlantic Processes in Bosnia and Herzegovina” organized by the University of Mostar. |
| 18 Mar. 2021 |  |
Coronavirus response: NATO and Latvia support to North Macedonia On 18 March 2021, North Macedonia received 6,000 litres of surface disinfectant detergent from NATO’s Pandemic Response Stockpile. The donation was coordinated by NATO’s Euro-Atlantic Disaster Response Coordination Centre (EADRCC) and the Republic of Latvia to respond to North Macedonia’s request for international assistance for COVID-19. |
| 17 Mar. 2021 |  |
NATO Secretary General discusses partnership and domestic developments with Georgian Prime Minister NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg welcomed Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili at NATO Headquarters on Wednesday (17 March 2021), ahead of the Prime Minister’s meeting with the North Atlantic Council. The Secretary General emphasised the close political partnership and strong practical cooperation between NATO and Georgia, thanking Georgia for serving alongside NATO forces in Afghanistan. |
| 17 Mar. 2021 |  |
Italy boosts its resilience with NATO support, in response to medical emergencies The NATO Support and Procurement Agency will deliver 18 field hospitals to the Italian Armed Forces. These new facilities will be set up at the Cecchignola Military Compound based in Rome and will help to enhance the country’s response to medical emergencies. |
| 16 Mar. 2021 |  | NATO collects defence expenditure data from Allies on a regular basis and presents aggregates and subsets of this information. Each Ally’s Ministry of Defence reports current and estimated future defence expenditure according to an agreed definition of defence expenditure. The amounts represent payments by a national government actually made, or to be made, during the course of the fiscal year to meet the needs of its armed forces, those of Allies or of the Alliance. In the figures and tables that follow, NATO also uses economic and demographic information available from the Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs of the European Commission (DG-ECFIN), and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). |