Defence spending by European Nato states inched up for the first time in seven years in 2016, the military alliance said yesterday, but still remained below the threshold the new US President Donald Trump said was crucial to achieve.Trump made North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) states in Europe nervous when he criticised the alliance as “obsolete” during election campaign and then went on to suggest that he could make US commitment to their security conditional on them meeting the alliance’s target of defence spending at 2% of their economic output.Trump has since reaffirmed support for Nato but insisted Europeans must …read more
Source: Gulf times
