Germany promises an honest fate of Europe when NATO leaders arrive at the Hague summit

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz warned that the Russian president understands only the language of power and that on Tuesday the NATO Historical Summit will seek peace in Europe over the next generations.

Merz said the German parliament a few hours before the summit was supposed to start, that Vladimir Putin remained defined, that Ukraine should be part of Russia, and he said Berlin would pay his “fair fate” to protect Europe.

US President Donald Trump goes to the Hague at its first NATO summit since 2019, where all 32 leaders seek to spend 3.5% of national defense products and another 1.5% on the relevant infrastructure.

On the eve of the summit, obscured by the Israeli-Iran conflict, NATO Secretary General Mark Ruthte ordered his European counterparts to stop worrying about the US commitment to the Western Alliance and focus on investing and supporting Ukraine.

He insisted that the US president and top leadership had a “full commitment” to NATO, which came with the expectation of US military expenses.

Rutte said Europe and Canada have already pledged more than $ 35 billion (26 billion pounds) in military support to Ukraine.

Ten people were killed in Russian attacks on Ukraine on Tuesday, and the German chancellor said that every attempt to bring Russia to the dining talks was still unsuccessful.

According to the regional chief of Sergi Lisak, the missile attacks on the eastern city of the Dnipro and the neighboring city of Samara killed 11 people and injured another 150, according to the regional chief of Sergius Lisak. A number of children were injured in an attack on Dnipro, which damaged kindergarten and passenger train.

A previous missile strike in the northeast killed three people, including a child.

Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky, who arrived at the Hague, should meet with Donald Trump on the sidelines of the NATO summit. This would be their first meeting because they met at Pope Francis’ funeral in the Vatican in April.

NATO member countries are expected to approve a new basic investment plan, which will increase the benchmark for defense investments to 5% GDP.

Many of the allies are much lower than the commitments to spend 3.5% of GDP for defense by 2035, but the German government supported the budget deal on Tuesday to reach this goal by 2029.

Some 62.4 billion euros (£ 53 billion) will be spent on defense in 2025, increasing to 152.8 billion euros in 2029, partly financed debt and special funds.

“We do not do this as a commitment to the US and his president, we do it from our own view and conviction, because Russia actively and aggressively endanger the security and freedom of the entire European-Atlantic region.”

During the summit, Merz is due to meet with British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starr and French President Emmanuel Macron.

Mark Ruthte spent most of the nine months since he became NATO Secretary General, working to force the Allies to accomplish a 5% goal. This indicator of more than a double NATO member is currently 2% of the guidelines and seemed incredible – and unreal – for most when President Trump first put it in January.

The two -day NATO summit was large -scale, so after lunch on Tuesday, held by the Dutch King, a session will be held less than three hours on Wednesday and a five -point statement, apparently, to post President Trump.

The formulation of commitments in the statement is key.

While 3.5% of the target costs will cover the basic protection requirements, 1.5% will be spent on “protection costs”-is the appropriate expression that covers investment into anything: from cybersecurity to infrastructure.

Achieving 3.5% of the main defense goal is still to require significant adjustment for most NATO countries. Of the 32 allies, 27 costs up to 3%, the eight fluctuates much lower than the 2%threshold, installed in 2014.

On Monday, Prime Minister Keir Starmer promised that the UK reached 5% of the target by 2035.

He said the UK should “go to this era of radical uncertainty with agility, speed and a clear sense of national interests.” The UK government has said it is planned to spend 2.6% of GDP on the main protection within two years, as well as 1.5% on the protection areas.

At the bottom of Rung is Spain, the cost of which is below 1.3%.

Madrid should be more than double financing to achieve a new Rute’s goal – that Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has long resisted, arguing it “not only unreasonable but also counterproductive.”

It is also that the main thing will be an unpopular house, not least among its left ruling coalition-at the time when the Sanchez government threatens.

On Sunday, Sanchez stated that Spain reached a transaction that she saw that she had been released from the goal – that Ruthte pushed back. “NATO is absolutely convinced that Spain will have to spend 3.5%to get there,” he said on Monday.

Sanchez’s proposal for a smaller threshold was sufficient for Belgium and Slovakia to also express interest in the release-absorbing the image of Rutht about the united alliance.

“I can assure that for weeks our diplomats are working hard to get flexibility mechanisms,” said Belgium Foreign Minister Maxim Prevot. Currently, Brussels’ costs are 1.3% – and Slovakia also stated that it reserves the right to decide when to reach a new goal.

Despite their comments, all 32 states should subscribe to a new bail.

As NATO leaders and leaders more than a dozen partners made their way to Hague, traveling trains from a chiffol airport near Amsterdam was severely disturbed after the cables were damaged by the fire.

Security Minister David van Vel said sabotage could not be ruled out. “It can be a group of activists, it can be another country. It can be anything,” he told NOS public television. “Most importantly, now – repair the cables and move again.”