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Jan van der Made

NATO backs defence hike as Trump claims victory, but doubts linger

Netherlands' Prime Minister Dick Schoof, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, U.S. President Donald Trump, Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan pose with NATO country leaders for a family photo during the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Heads of State and Government summit in The Hague, Netherlands, June 25, 2025. © Ben Stansall / via Reuters

NATO leaders meeting in The Hague on Wednesday agreed to raise defence spending to 5 percent of GDP and reaffirmed their mutual defence pledge – steps Donald Trump hailed as a “monumental win” for the US, which he says has carried an unfair share of the burden. But while all 32 allies projected unity, not everyone is convinced.

"We reaffirm our ironclad commitment to collective defence as enshrined in Article 5 of the Washington Treaty - that an attack on one is an attack on all," the leaders said in a summit declaration.

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