NATO chief to call for 400% increase in air and missile defence to maintain credible deterrent
9 June 2025, 06:17 | Updated: 9 June 2025, 09:14
NATO needs a 400% increase in air and missile defence to maintain a credible deterrence, its secretary general will say in a speech in London today.
Mark Rutte will call for a "quantum leap" in collective security, warning threats facing the alliance "will not disappear even when the war in Ukraine ends".
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It comes ahead of a summit in The Hague later this month, when the UK and its NATO allies are expected to agree to a Donald Trump-inspired pledge to spend 5% of GDP on defence and related areas.
