Media: the NATO Summit will fail if the members of the Commonwealth decides to increase funding

The NATO summit in Wales will be a failure, If the leading countries of the Commonwealth will not make decisions about the capacity of the defense appropriations, said the London print Edition of the financial times.
As pointed out by a log on the background of possible Topics for discussion in relation to Russia, the Crimea or fall in the East of Ukraine " the most important problem will be defence spending ", transfers ITAR-TASS. The story is about the fact that the Alliance spends on collective defence more than one trillion dollars each year, but NATO believe that this is not enough. Anyway, due to the economic issues and the growing public debt leading member States in the European Union in the last few years, not increased, and cut costs." among European parliamentarians feel that the trend (budget cuts) could reach the lowest point, citing the journal of the influential head of the London Institute of combined-arms (RUSI) Professor Michael Clarke.- If not, then this Summit will be possible to consider the historical failure ". According to the newspaper, the summit decisions in the field of military expenditures " given the instability in the European Union have the opportunity to be of great importance From the perspective of an authority of the Commonwealth, they will be watching closely from the outside ". According to Clark, " this is very important From the perspective of How it will assess the Russians ". The journal acknowledges: " in fact the whole Alliance to keep afloat USA, allocating at 735 billion dollars on its own with weapons of power each year. With this in mind, the average consumption of each of the NATO countries defence - 2, 9% of GDP, but If you remove the United States, the European members of NATO, As it turns out, investing is Usually Only 1, 6% of the GDP. Only four countries of the Commonwealth in 2013 reached a consistent military unit target military spending 2% of its GDP or over." Among them great Britain, said print Edition.- But spending London already on the brink of a 2-percent threshold and almost certainly will fall much lower in the coming months ". The financial times stated that the leading economies of NATO in the European Union - Britain, France, Germany, Spain and Italy - have to increase defense spending." Together they spend on defense 200 billion dollars a year - But it's more than 61 billion dollars less than their liabilities in the Alliance, " said printed Publication. However, application Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia intention to increase their defense budgets to levels more than 2% of its GDP, according to the magazine, " while laudable, But can handle only a tiny part of the problem, by adding the sum of the region to cost Only 1, 5 billion dollars a year ". British printed drew attention to the questions, " How funds are spent military budgets of NATO ". By her expression, " the small countries of Europe disproportionately (a lot) invested in number of personnel ", and " the largest - have more weapons, but poorly involved in cooperation on joint projects ". According to the analysis by consulting firm McKinsey, defence budgets in Europe decreased by $ 50 billion From 2008 to 2012 and projected to 2015 will be reduced by $ 4 billion, " said the magazine." The overall picture that the reduction in the EU will continue, " said specialist at McKinsey. The NATO summit will be held From 4 to 5 September. It's main theme - the situation in Afghanistan, the crisis in Ukraine and the role of the Commonwealth in an unpredictable world " of the future.

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