{"id":2717,"date":"2025-02-15T18:11:47","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T19:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/?p=2717"},"modified":"2025-02-15T19:26:44","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T19:26:44","slug":"nato-boss-tells-europe-to-stop-complaining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/15\/nato-boss-tells-europe-to-stop-complaining\/","title":{"rendered":"NATO boss tells Europe to \u2018stop complaining\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

The bloc\u2019s secretary-general has urged European leaders to present actionable solutions to the Ukraine conflict<\/strong><\/p>\n

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte has urged European members of the bloc to stop complaining about getting sidelined in peace talks and discussions on Ukraine\u2019s future, and to take action instead.<\/p>\n

Speaking at the Munich Security Conference (MSC) on Saturday, Rutte emphasized the need for actionable ideas, including on the Russia-Ukraine conflict and the bloc\u2019s effort to ramp up its defense spending.<\/p>\n

\u201cGet into the debate, not by complaining\u2026 but by coming up with concrete ideas,\u201d<\/em> he stated.<\/p>\n

Rutte also urged the bloc\u2019s members to ramp up their military spending, pointing out that despite previous commitments, many countries have yet to meet agreed-upon defense expenditure targets. The NATO chief also confirmed the US-led bloc was expected to reach a new agreement on spending targets during the upcoming summit of the organization scheduled for June.<\/p>\n

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No place for Europe in Ukraine talks \u2013 Trump envoy<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n

European members of NATO have sounded the alarm over the possibility they could end up sidelined in potential peace negotiations to resolve the nearly three year-long Ukraine conflict following a phone call between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Donald Trump on Wednesday. It is the first publicly known top-level contact between the US and Russian leadership since the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in February 2022.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, seven European nations and the EU Commission insisted they needed to be a part of any future negotiations on Ukraine, saying that their exclusion would make a lasting peace impossible.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur shared objectives should be to put Ukraine in a position of strength. Ukraine and Europe must be part of any negotiations,\u201d<\/em> they said in a joint statement after a ministerial meeting in Paris, adding that a \u201cjust and lasting peace in Ukraine is a necessary condition for a strong transatlantic security.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Washington, however, has signaled that European powers may not find a seat at the table. Trump\u2019s special envoy on Russia and Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, said at the MSC on Saturday that Kiev would undoubtedly be present, but that Europe may not be.
\u201cWhat we don\u2019t want to do is get into a large group discussion,\u201d<\/em> he explained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The bloc\u2019s secretary-general has urged European leaders to present actionable solutions to the Ukraine conflict NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte has urged European members of the bloc to stop complaining about getting sidelined in peace talks and discussions on Ukraine\u2019s future, and to take action instead. Speaking at the Munich Security Conference (MSC) on Saturday, Rutte…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2717"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2720,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2717\/revisions\/2720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}