Instead,the government pledges to meet the % target on average over a 5-year period,as already set out in the recently published National Security Strategy. Annalena Baerbock’s Foreign Office had opposed setting the 2% target in law,as desired by the Defense Ministry,Süddeutsche Zeitung reported.
“"I just wanted to find the right person and do it in the right fashion and then, shit happens," Margrethe Vestager told a POLITICO reporter on Friday at the Unamido Japanese ramen restaurant near Flagey square in Brussels.”
“The event with POLITICO at the British ambassador’s residence in Prague was Moore’s second-ever public speech in his role as C. It included a livestream and recorded podcast interview with McElvoy — herself an expert on the Cold War and co-author of a biography on an East German spymaster.
““We are not in favor as a matter of principle,” an Elysée Palace official told reporters on Friday. “As far as the office is concerned, the Japanese authorities themselves have told us that they are not extremely attached to it.””
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