The Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has said Europe should accept rather than resist United States President Donald Trump’s call for other North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) members to increase their military spending.
Tusk disclosed it at a session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, this Wednesday, saying that security is important to the continent.
Earlier, Trump said members of the military alliance should spend 5% of their gross domestic product (GDP) on defence. Note that this is a huge increase from the current 2% goal and a level that no NATO country, including the United States, currently achieves.
Tusk emphasized that the new U.S. president wants Europe to bear a greater share of responsibility for its own security.He said it is a time in which Europe cannot afford to save on security.
Tusk reiterated the opinion of European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas saying that Russia poses a threat to European Union security and that the only way to address this was to increase defence spending.