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NATO Defence Ministers to address defence spending, industrial capacity, support to Ukraine12 Feb. 2025 NATO Defence Ministers to address defence spending | News |
Pre-ministerial press conference by NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte ahead of the meeting of NATO Defence Ministers in Brussels12 Feb. 2025 after he was sworn in, and we do agree there’s a lot of important work ahead of us. So let me turn to that work - and what we will be focused on tomorrow. One topic at the top of our agenda is defence spending. We have robust plans in place | Opinion |
NATO Deputy Secretary General visits Hungary10 Feb. 2025 and welcomed its increase in defence spending. She also noted the importance of Hungary’s role as a host nation for NATO’s Forward Land Forces and the Headquarters Multinational Division Centre | News |
Joint press conference by NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte with the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Keir Starmer03 Feb. 2025 . To put it in another way, to prevent war, we must spend more. The UK understands this instinctively. You have long met the 2% target, and I welcome plans to further increase investments in defence, because in a more dangerous world, 2% will not be enough | Opinion |
NATO Secretary General meets with UK Prime Minister03 Feb. 2025 On Monday (3 February) NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte met with the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Keir Starmer, to discuss defence spending and ongoing support for Ukraine | News |
Joint press statements by NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte with the Prime Minister of Portugal, Luís Montenegro27 Jan. 2025 a fast, coordinated response. NATO is strong today. To keep NATO strong, we must, however, continue to adapt. And to guarantee our security in the future we also need to ramp up our efforts now. That also means we need to spend more on our defence | Opinion |
NATO Secretary General visits Spain and Portugal27 Jan. 2025 Mark Rutte travelled to Lisbon and Madrid on Monday (27 January) for discussions on the security situation in Europe, the need to increase defence spending, and the importance of continued support to Ukraine | News |
Remarks by NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte during a panel discussion “Your Country First – Win With Us” at the WEF Annual Meeting in Davos23 Jan. 2025 in spending in NATO on the European side. And he felt that basically, the US was getting a bad deal, and that Europe was basically is funding its social model and its health care system, etc, and its pension system by underfunding in defence. The problem | Opinion |
Remarks by NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte during Plenary Session: “Technology in the World" at the WEF Annual Meeting in Davos23 Jan. 2025 we fight our wars. Of course, the question I'm getting a lot is that I'm really pleading for more money to be spent on defence. And then people are worried that we will spend that in the same way as we did the last 100 years. But that is not the case | Opinion |
Speech by NATO Deputy Secretary General Radmila Shekerinska at the Annual Conference of the European Defence Agency22 Jan. 2025 are dealing with fierce competitors that are challenging both our security but also our way of life. There’s Russia, which is clearly on a war footing. And just this year, Russia plans to spend a third, a third of its national budget on defence | Opinion |
