Nato allies have pledged to meet Donald Trump’s demand to raise defence spending to 5 per cent of GDP by 2035, in a historic rearmament shift aimed at convincing him to maintain US commitments to protect the continent from invasion.
At a summit designed to win over the American president, Trump assured his 31 allies he was “with them all the way”, assuaging concerns he was seeking to renegotiate a mutual defence pact that has formed the bedrock of European security for eight decades.
Wednesday’s summit at The Hague also issued a joint statement that reaffirmed Nato governments’ “ironclad commitment to collective defence” and committed them to providing “annual plans showing a credible, incremental path” to the 5 per cent target.
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