A week before NATO top in the hedge, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico brought his country from the Defense Alliance. The reason: Bratislava does not want to support the new output destinations financially.
With a view to the goal of five percent for the defense spending for the debate, Fico compared NATO on Tuesday with a golf club on Tuesday and wrote, either the Slovakia “The new membership costs”-“or we leave NATO”.
Fico continued to write that “condition” for every permission for the extra expenses is that the Slovak government “could use the funds according to its own discretion”. Bratislava should mainly spend the money on projects that can have both civil and military benefits, called Fico Hospitals and Streets.
With a view to the goal of five percent of NATO -Secretary -General Mark Rutte, Fico wrote that it was “absolutely absurd to spend so much on defense”. Slovakia has “not the resources” for this. “Neutrality” is worth the country.
Fico received a lot of criticism
In addition to opposition politicians, President Peter Pellegrini, who is close to him, also practiced sharp criticism of Fico’s statements. Fico is “a master in overloading the public space with a subject that we will discuss every 20 days without achieving anything,” said Pellegrini and added: “Our neutrality would cost us much more than our membership of NATO.”
Slovakia has been a member of NATO since 2004. The Middle -European EU member country of the EU fulfills the goal of two percent since 2022, that NATO countries had agreed in 2014. Until Fico returned to Premier’s office in October 2023 in October 2023, Slovak was one of the determined supporters of the neighboring country Ukrainian. Under the leader -wing -populist, who is close to Russian President Vladimir Putin, the country hired all military aid for Kiev.
NATO Secretary -General Rutte has been promoting the goal of five percent for weeks. His proposal stipulates that the NATO countries will issue at least 3.5 percent of their annual economic output for defense expenditure and 1.5 percent of GDP for defense-relevant infrastructure by 2032.
Source: Krone
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