| Title | Document type |
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 |
NATO Deputy Secretary General in Lithuania: NATO will deter any aggression17 Jan. 2025 . At the Snow Meeting, Ms Sekerinska highlighted the importance of increasing defence spending and production, supporting Ukraine, and countering hostile actions against Allies. “Russia is the most significant threat to our security. It wants to wipe Ukraine | News |
Joint press conference by the Chair of the NATO Military Committee, Admiral Rob Bauer, the Supreme Allied Commander Europe, General Christopher Cavoli and the Supreme Allied Commander Transformation, Admiral Pierre Vandier16 Jan. 2025 of going faster and quicker for the Alliance? First question, and the second question, regarding the defence spending, Mr. Rutte kept repeating the last weeks that we need to spend more, around the countries of the alliance, and he was comparing the need | Opinion |
Opening remarks by the Chair of the NATO Military Committee, Admiral Rob Bauer and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte at the meeting of the Military Committee in Chiefs of Defence15 Jan. 2025 charge our defence production and defence spending. You stated that in order to prevent war, NATO must invest more. And you stated that we need to be better prepared for what is coming our way in four to five years. On behalf of the NATO | Opinion |
Allied Chiefs of Defence meet with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte15 Jan. 2025 . In his opening remarks, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte conveyed, “to prevent war, we need to prepare for it. It is time to shift to a wartime mindset.” Furthermore, he stressed that this entails increasing defence spending, continuing to support | News |
Joint press conference by NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte with the President of Finland Alexander Stubb and the Prime Minister of Estonia Kristen Michal at the Baltic Sea NATO Allies Summit.14 Jan. 2025 with the amount of money they are spending, we are really getting into difficulty if we do not ramp up the money we spent on defence and ramp up the defence industrial, defence industrial base. And this is really crucial. And I've not even talked about China | Opinion |
