President Donald Trump has made it clear that Europe wants to become less dependent on US military support and become more self-sufficient. The message appears to have finally been overcome in one day of speaking at the emergency summit on Thursday.
AP Report Germany's next prime minister, Friedrich Merz, was in consultation with summit host Antonio Costa for breakfast in Brussels on how he and his future coalition partners would meet with the challenge of a short deadline a few days after relaxing plans to loosen the country's rules for earning debts to allow higher defence spending.
At the same time, the 27 European Union blocs were awakened to news from French President Emmanuel Macron. Emmanuel Macron has awarded EU leaders the possibility of using French nuclear deterrent to protect the continent from the Russian threat.
It all underscored the oceanic changes that took place in two months after Trump returned to the White House, and soon began demanding that Europe start to look to his defenses.
Trump criticised the costs of the war in Ukraine for US taxpayers through a major military aid package, revealing that he wants to change the financial burden more across the Atlantic.
As reported by Breitbart News, he is also challenging NATO members to increase their defensive spending to 5% of their overall economic outcome.
“Given these deep changes in US policy, and the existential threats of another war on the continent, Europe, we must manage its essential defence tasks,” the think tank at the European Policy Centre said in a commentary seen in the AP report.
The 27 block is “a crucial step,” Macron told France on Wednesday evening.
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“Member countries can increase military spending,” and “large joint funding will be provided to purchase and produce some of Europe's most innovative ammunition, tanks, weapons and equipment.”
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen wants to appoint him for the task and proposes a plan that will allow EU countries to spend more on defense despite current budgetary issues and benefits from loans, despite EU members starting the process.
Part of the plan is to protect Ukraine's increasingly plagued position, with President Voldymir Zelensky set to take part in the talks.
Ukrainian leaders have already gone to the point of calling for the creation of a grand European army that can oppose the enemy.
