{"id":2046,"date":"2025-04-18T08:32:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T03:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ainews.prativad.com\/index.php\/trump-chides-italys-meloni-over-military-spending\/"},"modified":"2025-04-18T08:32:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T03:02:22","slug":"trump-chides-italys-meloni-over-military-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ainews.prativad.com\/index.php\/trump-chides-italys-meloni-over-military-spending\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump chides Italy\u2019s Meloni over military spending"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><strong>NATO\u2019s target of spending 2% of members\u2019 GDP on defense is insufficient, the US president has said<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"162\" data-end=\"433\">Rome needs to spend more on its military because NATO\u2019s 2% target is no longer enough, US President Donald Trump has told Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"597\" data-end=\"874\">Trump has long insisted that European member states must boost their own defense. The debate over burden-sharing between the allies has further complicated the Trump administration\u2019s strained relations with Europe.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"876\" data-end=\"1082\">At a joint press conference in Washington on Thursday, Meloni stated that <em>\u201cItaly is going to the next summit of NATO, announcing that it will raise [defense spending] to 2%, and that\u2019s also progressed.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1084\" data-end=\"1224\"><em>\u201cIt will go up,\u201d<\/em> Trump interjected. When asked by a reporter if the 2% target was sufficient, the US president replied, <em>\u201cIt\u2019s never enough.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1226\" data-end=\"1434\">Last year, Italy\u2019s defense budget stood at 1.49% of GDP \u2013 one of the lowest in NATO. Meloni has been advocating for some time to reclassify expenditure on border patrols and coast guards as military spending.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n        <span><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<figure>\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mf.b37mrtl.ru\/files\/2025.04\/thumbnail\/6800145585f5401a0663f82b.jpg\" alt=\"Belgian Finance Minister Vincent Van Peteghem\" \/><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/615839-eu-belgium-military-spending-nato\/\">Belgium eyes welfare cuts to meet NATO target \u2013 minister<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p data-start=\"1436\" data-end=\"1816\">In January, Trump accused European countries of taking advantage of the US and argued that NATO members should spend at least 5% of their GDP on defense. Last year, 23 of the 32 members hit the 2% target set by NATO in 2014, according to the bloc\u2019s own estimates cited by the BBC. The US spends around 3.5% of GDP on defense and is NATO\u2019s biggest overall contributor.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1818\" data-end=\"2093\">Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto told the newspaper La Stampa this week that it is <em>\u201cunthinkable\u201d<\/em> to assume that all European nations would slash social programs to fulfill Trump\u2019s 5% demand. <em>\u201cEuropean countries can\u2019t touch welfare and social achievements,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2095\" data-end=\"2324\">Last week, Trump said he would not rule out withdrawing some or all of the 84,000 US troops currently stationed in Europe. <em>\u201cWe pay for the military in Europe. We don\u2019t get reimbursed by much,\u201d<\/em> Trump told reporters at the White House.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2326\" data-end=\"2482\">The New York Times reported on Monday that the US could slash <em>\u201calmost all funding\u201d<\/em> for international organizations, including the UN and NATO.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump has said Italy needs to radically increase its defense budget Read Full Article at RT.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Trump chides Italy\u2019s Meloni over military spending - 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