The Netherlands is set to top the Nato standard of spending at least 2% of GDP on defence this year, according to new figures from the organisation itself. In total, 22 of the 32 Nato countries will meet the requirement this year, the first time so many countries have done so, secretary general Jens Stoltenberg said in Washington on Monday. The minimum was introduced in 2006. The Netherlands has been consistently below the 2% level but the outgoing government upped...
I guess it would have been a bad look for Rutte as new NATO chief not to do this.