{"id":458983,"date":"2026-07-06T19:11:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T17:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/07\/06\/vertice-della-nato-rutte-i-governi-presentino-piani-chiari-concreti-e-credibili-per-raggiungere-lobiettivo-del-5-per-cento\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T19:43:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T17:43:58","slug":"nato-summit-rutte-governments-must-present-clear-concrete-and-credible-plans-to-meet-the-5-per-cent-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/07\/06\/nato-summit-rutte-governments-must-present-clear-concrete-and-credible-plans-to-meet-the-5-per-cent-target\/","title":{"rendered":"NATO Summit. Rutte: “Governments must present clear, concrete, and credible plans to meet the 5 per cent target”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – Upholding the Transatlantic Alliance\u2019s commitments, ensuring fair burden-sharing, transforming resources into capabilities, and continuing support for Ukraine.<\/strong> These are the priorities set out<\/a> in Ankara (Turkey) by the NATO Secretary General, Mark Rutte<\/strong>, during the press conference ahead of the Atlantic Alliance summit beginning tomorrow (7 July). Over two days, the Allied nations will discuss not only increasing military spending but also how they intend to meet the target of 5 per cent of GDP by 2035, a commitment<\/a> to which Italy is also a signatory. <\/p>\n

“Just one year on, we are already seeing extraordinary progress,” said Rutte, who now expects “clear, concrete, and credible plans to achieve the 5 per cent target” from governments. On this point, the Secretary-General commended the European Allies and Canada, as they are currently \u201calready investing around 4 per cent of their GDP in defence and security,\u201d an increase of almost 20 per cent in defence spending compared with last year, amounting to approximately $258 billion<\/strong>. For this reason, according to the Secretary-General, they are \u201con track to bring their defence spending in line with that of the United States.\u201d In addition to spending, the Allies\u2019 efforts \u201cto strengthen our deterrence and defence, including along the entire eastern flank in the Baltic region and the Arctic\u201d and in Ukraine were recognised. This, he noted, \u201cdemonstrates a real shift in mindset.\u201d<\/p>\n

The aim now is to \u201ctranslate our economic strength into military capabilities.\u201d In short, this means ensuring greater innovation, overcoming the fragmentation of national defence industries, and streamlining bureaucracy. For this reason, NATO will launch the NATO Summit Defence Industry Forum tomorrow, a platform where Allies will demonstrate how they are <\/strong>\u201cworking together in the sector<\/strong>.\u201d This \u201cwill contribute to the growth of our economies, spread innovation, and support hundreds of thousands of jobs on both sides of the Atlantic,\u201d Rutte emphasised. <\/p>\n

On the issue of Ukraine, Rutte reiterated that NATO Allies and partners must continue to ensure that the country receives what it needs, adding a warning: all Allies must play their part, \u201cbecause Ukraine\u2019s security is closely linked to our own.\u201d Therefore, \u201cwe will ensure that the situation is brought back into balance for the better,\u201d with a view to \u201csharing responsibility for our common security fairly.\u201d Finally, \u201cwe will continue to provide strong support to Ukraine, reminding President Putin that we remain steadfast in our commitment,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Secretary-General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation congratulated the European Allies and Canada for having invested around 4 per cent of their GDP in security and defence. \u201cThat is almost 20 per cent more than last year\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7908,"featured_media":458969,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25707],"tags":[33768,25927,31521,27076,33669,30928,33394,30781,29842],"class_list":["post-458983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-politics","tag-ankara","tag-canada-en","tag-nato-en-10","tag-putin-en-2","tag-rutte","tag-alliance-transatlantic-en","tag-ue","tag-ukraine-in-2","tag-war-in-ucraine-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7908"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":458984,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458983\/revisions\/458984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}