The UK needs to significantly increase its defense spending, otherwise British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace will not have a chance to become NATO’s next Secretary General. DEA News With reference to The Telegraph.
“Everyone noticed that Wallace was talking about defense spending,” according to sources at the Alliance. If he doesn’t increase his spending, the next NATO Secretary-General will “probably be from somewhere else,” they said.
The publication states that France would prefer one of the EU countries to be the next general secretary of the alliance.
Formerly Daily Mail newspaper knowledgeableBritish Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said he would announce a £5bn increase in the country’s defense budget during his visit to the US, but that this amount would not exceed £11bn demanded by Wallace.
Western media nominate Wallace, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, Estonian Prime Minister Kai Kallas, less commonly Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte, Slovak President Zuzana Chaputova and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen as candidates for the NATO presidency in the West. print.