In a hub for alliance and in an increasingly uncertain security environment, his leaders will meet NATOon June 24 and 25, in The Hague, with a key issue on the agenda the further strengthening of the defense potential of the Alliance.

A key issue in which the leaders of the countries in the alliance will be called upon to agree to The approval of NATO’s new investment plan in defensewhich puts higher its bar Increasing expenditure and investment in defense for the Member States of the Alliance.

In particular, the plan provides Expenditure of 5% for the following years. According to NATO Secretary -General Mark Rutte, the target concerns 3.5 points of purely defensive costs and 1.5 points on safety and defense -related costs and investment, such as infrastructure, industry and durability. The initial time horizon for the implementation of the commitment is 2035, but it has not yet been finalized and is also expected to be a matter of debate among leaders.

Greece spends more than 3% of its GDP on defense. It belongs to the hard core of the countries of the alliance that have exceeded the NATO commitment that is currently 2% of GDP, while recently the prime minister presented the country’s 12 -year defense program of 25 billion euros.

Greece was keeping its allied commitments during the difficult times of the fiscal crisis, which is expected to be pointed out Kyriakos Mitsotakis. The prime minister is one of the first European leaders to emphasize the urgent need for Europeans to invest more and more intelligently in collective European defense and to form a powerful defense European pillar, complementary to NATO.

It is noted that by the end of the year all countries in the alliance are expected to have achieved the goal of 2% of GDP (a target set in 2014), and since the beginning of the year a number of members who had not achieved this goal have announced an increase in defense spending.

The Summit program begins on Tuesday night with the dinner quoted in honor of the leaders of the royal couple of the Netherlands, while the summit takes place from morning until noon on Wednesday.