{"id":14499,"date":"2018-07-03T16:14:17","date_gmt":"2018-07-03T16:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dinnews.in\/?p=14499"},"modified":"2018-07-03T16:14:34","modified_gmt":"2018-07-03T16:14:34","slug":"nato-allies-defend-military-spending-amid-trump-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/?p=14499","title":{"rendered":"NATO allies defend military spending amid Trump criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Brussels, Jul 3 (DIN NEWS)<\/b> NATO&#8217;s European allies are pushing back against US criticism that they are not spending enough on defence, as President Donald Trump ratchets up pressure ahead of a summit next week.<\/p>\n<p>After Russia annexed Ukraine&#8217;s Crimean Peninsula, NATO allies agreed in 2014 to end defence budget cuts, to begin spending more as their economies grew and to move toward a goal of 2 per cent of GDP within a decade.<\/p>\n<p>In an email to The Associated Press today, Norwegian Defence Minister Frank Bakke-Jensen said that &#8220;Norway stands by its decision of the NATO Summit in 2014 and is following up on this.&#8221; Ahead of the July 11-12 summit, Trump sent letters to Norway and several other allies demanding that they recommit to military spending.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels, Jul 3 (DIN NEWS) NATO&#8217;s European allies are pushing back against US criticism that they are not spending enough on defence, as President Donald Trump ratchets up pressure ahead of a summit next week. After Russia annexed Ukraine&#8217;s Crimean Peninsula, NATO allies agreed in 2014 to end defence budget cuts, to begin spending more as their economies grew and to move toward a goal of 2 per cent of GDP within a decade. In an email to The Associated Press today, Norwegian Defence Minister Frank Bakke-Jensen said that &#8220;Norway&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14500,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14499"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14501,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14499\/revisions\/14501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}