Defense spending shouldn't be
included in European Stability Pact limits if Western leaders
think it a strategic priority, Premier Matteo Renzi said Friday
after NATO called on members to up their defense spending to 2%
of GDP. "After I made that suggestion, some of the other leaders
called me a 'provocateur'," Renzi told reporters at a news
briefing at the close of a two-day NATO summit in Newport,
Wales. "I also said I would like to have a common EU defense
policy and a forum in which to discuss it," Renzi said.
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