NR Daily: Germany Must Meet Its Obligation to NATO

At its 2006 summit in Latvia, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) established a rule that member states should spend at least 2 percent of their GDP on defense. At NATO's 2014 summit in Wales, the member countries reiterated their commitment to that benchmark, with those countries that were falling short agreeing to reach it by 2024. In 2017, only five member countries other than the U.S. were estimated to contribute 2 percent of their GDP to NATO: Greece, Estonia, the United Kingdom, Romania, and Poland. Lagging behind, at only 1.2 percent of GDP, was Germany ...

January 17 2018

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