{"id":358798,"date":"2018-04-28T15:27:59","date_gmt":"2018-04-28T14:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/pay-up-fair-share-for-defense\/"},"modified":"2018-04-28T15:27:59","modified_gmt":"2018-04-28T14:27:59","slug":"pay-up-fair-share-for-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/pay-up-fair-share-for-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"Pay up \u2018fair share\u2019 for defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US President Donald Trump\u00a0criticized German Chancellor Angela Merkel for refusing to pay her \u201cfair share\u201d for defense, during an intense 30-minute meeting they had in his office in Washington.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trump said he told Merkel during her visit to Washington on Friday that it was \u201cessential\u201d for Germany to meet the goal that the NATO has set that each member spend at least two percent of its gross domestic product (GDP) on its own defense each year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll member states must honor their commitment to two percent, and hopefully much more, of GDP, on defense,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said that they also \u201ctalked about the security of Europe and the responsibility of European nations to properly contribute to their own defense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNATO is wonderful, but it helps Europe more than it helps us, and why are we paying the vast majority of the costs?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n<p>Merkel, who has so far refused to meet the goal, said Berlin would spend 1.3 percent in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/04\/28\/559964\/USRrumpAngela-MerkelGDPNATO\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump\u00a0criticized German Chancellor Angela Merkel for refusing to pay her \u201cfair share\u201d for defense, during an intense 30-minute meeting they had in his office in Washington. Trump said he told Merkel during her visit to Washington on Friday that it was \u201cessential\u201d for Germany to meet the goal that the NATO has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-358798","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}