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The NATO meeting will take place Tuesday to discuss increased military spending in the shadow of the Middle East conflict.
Hundreds of people protested in The Hague, the Netherlands, against NATO and an increase in military spending before a summit, because the Iranian conflict with Israel and the United States is intensifying day by day.
People demonstrated on Sunday against the military alliance, the punishing war of Israel Gaza and the Israeli-Iran conflict Three nuclear sites In Iran in a sudden escalation to support its greatest ally in the Middle East.
Hossein Hamadani, 74, an Iranian who lives in the Netherlands, told the Associated Press press agency that they were “opposed to war”. “People want to live a peaceful life … things are not good. So why do we depend on money for war? ” He added.
After the United States’s attack on Iran, an unnamed NATO official told the Reuters news agency that the Alliance was watching the situation “up close”.
The summit is expected to start on Tuesday, the leaders of the 32 NATO allied countries meet a day later on Wednesday.
During the meeting, the heads of state will discuss an increase in defense spending, which has been required several times by US President Donald Trump, as well as barely veiled threats to leave the military alliance.
THURSDAY, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez Surprised against the agreement to increase defense expenses to 5% of the national gross domestic product (GDP) as not only “unreasonable but also counterproductive”.
In a letter to the NATO secretary general, Mark Rutte, Sanchez asked for a “more flexible formula” which makes the expenses option as an option or excludes Spain from his request.
But Trump said a day later that Madrid was “notorious” for sub-depends in defense and said that he had to pay what other NATO members paid.
Allied countries have increased defense expenses since Russia invaded Ukraine over three years ago; However, almost a third of the members still do not reach the current objective of the block of at least 2% of defense expenses.
