US President Donald Trump has once again made compliance with the 2% of GDP rule for military spending his trumpeted cause for the NATO summit which opened in Brussels on Wednesday 11 July.
During the summit in Wales in 2014, the members of the transatlantic Alliance had agreed to step up their military spending to 2% of GDP by 2024.
In a public declaration after the first day of the summit, the heads of state and government of the Atlantic Alliance nations “reaffirmed their steadfast...