US Envoy Heaps Pressure on Czechs to Boost Defense Spending
An armoured vehicle at the STV Group AS stand during the International Defence and Security Technologies Fair in Brno, Czech Republic.
Photographer: Milan Jaros/BloombergThe US dialed up pressure on the Czech Republic after billionaire Prime Minister Andrej Babis’s government pushed through a budget that fell short of NATO defense-spending targets.
President Donald Trump has harangued North Atlantic Treaty Organization members for spending too little on the militaries — and oversaw a new NATO benchmark of spending 5% of economic output on defense.