{"id":8516,"date":"2024-07-13T18:35:29","date_gmt":"2024-07-13T18:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eunewsroom.com\/mitsotakis-on-cnn-europe-cannot-rely-only-on-us-for-defense\/"},"modified":"2024-07-13T18:35:29","modified_gmt":"2024-07-13T18:35:29","slug":"mitsotakis-on-cnn-europe-cannot-rely-only-on-us-for-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eunewsroom.com\/en\/mitsotakis-on-cnn-europe-cannot-rely-only-on-us-for-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitsotakis on CNN: Europe cannot rely only on US for defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has welcomed the \u201cclear commitment\u201d by all NATO member states to commit to spending at least 2% of GDP on defense spending, adding that European countries cannot \u201cjust rely\u201d on the US for their defense.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGreece has been doing that for many, many years, and I am happy to see that other countries, which over the past years have clearly not spent as much as they should on defense, are clearly catching up,\u201d he said in an wide-ranging interview with CNN anchor Julia Chatterley.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister said increased defense spending was an important&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/politics\/foreign-policy\/1243933\/mitsotakis-on-cnn-europe-cannot-rely-only-on-us-for-defense\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has welcomed the \u201cclear commitment\u201d by all NATO member states to commit to spending at least 2% of GDP on defense spending, adding that European countries cannot \u201cjust rely\u201d on the US for their defense. \u201cGreece has been doing that for many, many years, and I am happy to see that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8516","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eunewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eunewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eunewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eunewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eunewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eunewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eunewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eunewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eunewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}