NATO's future

Donald Trump has landed in the Netherlands

US President Donald Trump has landed in the Netherlands where he will attend the NATO summit in The Hague, AFP reports.

His plane Air Force One landed in Amsterdam at 7:37 p.m. and Trump is expected to attend a dinner at the palace to which the Dutch King Willem-Alexander has invited the NATO leaders on Wednesday evening.

Economists: NATO is rearming at the expense of the climate

Europe's rearmament will come at the expense of climate work and welfare, warn economists The Guardian spoke to.

The message comes ahead of the upcoming NATO summit in The Hague, where the alliance's members are to formalize their new common goal of spending five percent of GDP on defense.

"Increasing military spending while simultaneously cutting green and social spending risks meeting public resistance, increasing inequality and reducing trust in democratic institutions," writes the New Economics Foundation (NEF) in an analysis.

Rutte defends Trump's words: "Appropriate tone"

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte says he has no problem with Donald Trump sharing his private message on Truth Social.

- The tone of the message was appropriate, he says according to Reuters.

Rutte adds that he is convinced that Trump is committed to NATO's Article Five.

In the message, Rutte praised Trump and the bombing of Iran, which he writes that "no one else would have dared to do."

He also gave Trump credit for pushing for the new five percent target that the alliance countries agreed on.

"Europe will pay heavily, as it should, and that will be your victory," Rutte writes