Trump’s uphill battle to make NATO allies hit his mega defense spending target – POLITICO

Trump’s uphill battle to make NATO allies hit his mega defense spending target – POLITICO

NATO split Trump’s demand is splitting the alliance’s European nations into three groupings, said Camille Grand, a former NATO assistant secretary-general who’s now a distinguished policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations. A “relatively small group” that includes the Baltic nations and Poland is already spending nearly 5 percent of GDP on defense…

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Brussels vows ‘firm’ response to threatened Trump tariffs as EU braces for trade war – POLITICO

Brussels vows ‘firm’ response to threatened Trump tariffs as EU braces for trade war – POLITICO

“It’s important that we don’t divide the world with numerous tariff barriers,” Scholz said on Sunday after meeting with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in the U.K. The EU is “a strong economic area and has its own courses of action,” Scholz said. In contrast, German Finance Minister Jörg Kukies urged Europeans to keep calm…

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