NATO Chief: Europe stopped whining, started acting

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NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said he was "actively and intensely" engaging with members of the Alliance to increase their defence spending to make sure every nation in the organization was hitting the 2% target.

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00:00Europe stopped whining and started acting.

00:03I was a bit irritated in Munich that the reaction of many Europeans was, when the peace initiative

00:09was announced in the U.S., we are not involved, can we be at the table, et cetera, et cetera.

00:15And I said, organize yourselves, find yourself to a table, whatever that table exactly entails.

00:22That's why it was so important that we had General Kellogg visiting NATO headquarters

00:26and briefing the ambassadors last Monday.

00:29I think the meeting President Macron organized also has to be seen in that light.

00:34Somehow in Europe we are discussing how to organize the security guarantees into Ukraine

00:41post the peace deal, and that is a step-by-step process.

00:47As always in Europe, it never immediately brings you to a final joint conclusion, which

00:51is not a problem, because we still have some time.

00:54But I'm happy that at least in Europe we stopped whining and started acting, getting our act

00:59together, and our talks today also very much focused on this, so Paris was not a stand-alone.

01:05It is part of a bigger process.

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