Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan, U.S. President Donald Trump, Dutch King Willem-Alexander and Dutch Queen Maxima, France's President Emmanuel Macron, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, Sweden's Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Slovakia's President Peter Pellegrini, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, Poland's outgoing President Andrzej Duda, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, European Council President Antonio Costa, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte and NATO heads of state and governments pose for a picture ahead of a dinner hosted by Dutch King Willem-Alexander and Dutch Queen Maxima, on the sidelines of a NATO Summit, at Huis ten Bosch Palace in The Hague, Netherlands June 24, 2025. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann/Pool
THE HAGUE (Reuters) -NATO leaders on Wednesday backed the big increase in defence spending that U.S. President Donald Trump had demanded, and restated their commitment to defend each other from attack after a brief summit in the Netherlands.
While Trump got what he wanted at the annual meeting, tailor-made for him, his NATO allies will be relieved that he committed to the fundamental principle of collective defence after less clear-cut language on Tuesday.
