Van Peteghem wants to raise the defense budget accelerated: “We can’t wait until 2029"

Deputy Prime Minister Vincent van Peteghem (CD&V) wants to accelerate work on an increased defense budget. He says that in an interview with ‘De Zondag’. NATO boss Mark Rutte demands that our country already reaches the NATO standard of 2 percent of GDP by the summer, but as it is currently foreseen in the budget, that would only work within four years. It is an amount of around 4 billion euros.

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