{"id":40483,"date":"2025-01-10T00:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T21:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=40483"},"modified":"2025-01-10T00:47:21","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T21:47:21","slug":"scholz-rejects-trumps-proposal-to-increase-nato-defense-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/10\/scholz-rejects-trumps-proposal-to-increase-nato-defense-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Scholz Rejects Trump\u2019s Proposal to Increase NATO Defense Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced on Thursday his rejection of the call made by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump for NATO member states to raise their minimum defense spending to 5% of their GDP.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Speaking to the news website &#8220;Focus Online,&#8221; Scholz stated, &#8220;This is a substantial amount of money,&#8221; adding, &#8220;NATO has a very clear mechanism for decision-making,&#8221; according to the French news agency AFP.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Currently, NATO member states are required to spend at least 2% of their GDP on defense.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The center-left leader explained that 5% of Germany\u2019s GDP\u2014Europe&#8217;s largest economy\u2014would equate to approximately \u20ac200 billion annually, while Germany&#8217;s federal budget amounts to around \u20ac490 billion.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Scholz emphasized that to meet Trump&#8217;s request, Germany would need to either cut spending or borrow an additional \u20ac150 billion each year.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He added, &#8220;This is why I believe it is better to focus on the path NATO has agreed upon for a long time.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">However, the chancellor acknowledged that &#8220;Germany must make more efforts for security,&#8221; noting that Berlin has already doubled its annual defense spending to nearly \u20ac80 billion in recent years.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Scholz announced an additional \u20ac100 billion in defense spending to modernize Germany&#8217;s armed forces.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced on Thursday his rejection of the call made by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump for NATO member states to raise their minimum defense spending to 5% of their GDP. Speaking to the news website &#8220;Focus Online,&#8221; Scholz stated, &#8220;This is a substantial amount of money,&#8221; adding, &#8220;NATO has a very clear &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40484,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40483\/revisions\/40484"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}