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European leaders privately set out plans on defence spending, says NATO's Rutte
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Posted on March 2, 2025
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1 min readLast updated: January 25, 2026
NATO's Rutte announced that European leaders discussed new defence spending plans in London, with more countries committing to increased budgets.
LONDON (Reuters) - NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said that some European leaders had privately set out new plans on defence spending during a meeting in London, but he declined to give details, saying it was for individual leaders to set them out.
"Today at the table I heard new announcements, and I'm not going to announce them to you, because they should do this. But this was very good news that more European countries will ramp up defence spending," Rutte told reporters outside the meeting on Sunday.
(Reporting by Kate Holton and Andrew MacAskill, writing by William James; Editing by Conor Humphries)
Mark Rutte mentioned that some European leaders had privately set out new plans on defence spending during a meeting in London.
No, Rutte declined to give details, stating that the announcements should come from the leaders themselves.
Rutte described the news as very good, indicating that more European countries will ramp up their defence spending.
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