Britain’s defense spending will reach 2.5% of GDP by the end of this decade, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said today, speaking at the NATO summit in Madrid. The British Prime Minister also said that Russia’s decision to leave Snake Island, a strategic outpost of the Black Sea, is a testament to Ukraine’s ability to retaliate. […]
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Macron: Compromise found with Bulgaria on Northern Macedonia’s EU accession
LAST UPDATE: 15.56 French President Emanuel Macron said he felt a compromise solution, including with Bulgaria, had been found on the negotiating framework for Northern Macedonia’s accession to the European Union. “I think we have found a compromise,” Macron told a news conference at the end of a NATO summit in Madrid. The Bulgarian parliament […]
K. Mitsotakis: A completely isolated Turkey does not benefit Greece – We do not want a Turkey that does not talk
By Dimitris Gatsios The Prime Minister described the Madrid Summit, which is coming to an end, as successful for NATO, but also for our country. Mr. Mitsotakis estimated that the messages sent to Ankara by the US, but also by the allies are clear. At the same time, he stressed that the Alliance’s commitment is […]
M. Varvitsiotis: NATO emerges as the only shield against the Russian threat
“The big winner from the NATO Conference was NATO itself, which is expanding and gaining members that we did not imagine could join until a few months ago,” Deputy Foreign Minister Miltiadis Barvitsiotis told the radio station today. “Real FM”. He added that NATO is now emerging as the only shield against the Russian threat […]
China denounces NATO ‘completely futile’ efforts to ‘tarnish’ it
China today denounced NATO’s “completely futile” efforts to “tarnish” it, following the release yesterday, Wednesday, of a military alliance document in which Beijing is presented as a threat to its interests. “This so-called NATO ‘strategy’ document has little to do with reality and presents the facts in reverse,” said Zhao Lijian, a spokesman for the […]
Erdogan did not repeat his rhetorical outbursts – Mitsotaki ‘nails’ and the Biden and Michel signals
Of Dimitris Gatsiou Athens is counting the positive imprints left by the first day of the NATO Summit in Madrid, having completed, before the Allied meeting in the Spanish capital, a round of briefings on the challenges and the neighbor’s review speech. The Greek capital stands not only for the fact that the President of […]
NATO: Europe’s new strategic geography ‘squeezes’ Russia
By David Axe Turkey has lifted its objections to Finland and Sweden joining NATO, setting the stage for the largest enlargement of the Alliance in a generation that will significantly change the strategic geography of Europe – in NATO’s favor. The decision was taken on the first day of the NATO Summit in Madrid. “We […]
Why NATO should immediately and massively transfer troops to Eastern Europe
By Hal Brands The leaders of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) countries are in Madrid for the alliance’s most important summit in a generation. NATO seems to have overcome Turkish diplomatic blackmail and is finally bringing in two new members, Sweden and Finland. He must also approve a new transatlantic security doctrine amid Russia’s […]
Putin: ‘I do not rule out tensions with Finland and Sweden’
“I do not rule out the possibility of tensions in Moscow’s relations with Finland and Sweden, following the decision of the two countries to join NATO,” Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday night. Russia will be forced to respond with the same currency if NATO infrastructure is developed in the two Nordic countries, Putin said, denouncing […]
N. Androulakis: It is unacceptable for NATO to be led by Erdogan’s blackmail
Opening the thematic conference of PASOK-Movement for Change in Larissa for a new national productive model, Nikos Androulakis commented on what was happening at the NATO Summit in Madrid. “Irony of history, to end up, to avoid a reviewer, a transgressor of international law, to sign an agreement with someone who has exactly the same […]
