{"id":4637,"date":"2025-03-09T10:36:52","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T10:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/09\/higher-european-defense-budgets-a-first-step-production-needed-natos-rutte-says\/"},"modified":"2025-03-09T10:36:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T10:36:52","slug":"higher-european-defense-budgets-a-first-step-production-needed-natos-rutte-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/09\/higher-european-defense-budgets-a-first-step-production-needed-natos-rutte-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Higher European defense budgets a first step, production needed, NATO\u2019s Rutte says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-1263682\">\n    <!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"first-img article_thumbnail_wrapper\" itemscope=\"\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n                                                                    <picture><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/AP-Mark-Rutte-320x200.jpg?v=1732299947\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"600\" class=\"picture-main-block-image\" data-nxsrc=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/AP-Mark-Rutte-scaled.jpg?v=1732299946\" alt=\"Higher European defense budgets a first step, production needed, NATO\u2019s Rutte says\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/AP-Mark-Rutte-960x600.jpg?v=1732299948\"\/><br \/>\n                        <\/source><\/picture>\n<p>[Manon Cruz\/ AP]<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>Higher European defense budgets and a ramp-up of production by military equipment industries are necessary to secure Europe, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said in a German newspaper interview.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will need to spend more to keep ourselves safe,\u201d Rutte told German Sunday newspaper Welt am Sonntag (WamS).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut we also need to quickly ramp up our defense production on both sides of the Atlantic\u2026for far too long, we have produced far too little.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The North Atlantic Treaty Organization includes much of Europe and also the United States and Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Ammunition, ships, tanks, jets, but also satellites and drones were needed, Rutte said.<\/p>\n<p>European countries are hastening to boost defense spending and maintain support for Ukraine after US President Donald Trump froze US military aid to Kyiv and raised doubts about Washington\u2019s commitment to European allies.<\/p>\n<p>German lawmakers will debate sweeping changes to state borrowing rules to fund defense, alongside a 500-billion euro ($541.60 billion) infrastructure fund, from March 13 to get those measures passed in the outgoing parliament ahead of the formation of a new one on March 25, sources have said.<\/p>\n<p>EU leaders on Thursday held meetings to back joint defense loans to member states and to allow defense spending beyond tight budgetary rules for other sectors.<\/p>\n<p>Rutte said he had met with many heads of defense manufacturing companies and urged them to respond to higher demand. 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