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Hagel says Europeans should step up NATO support

By Robert Burns
Published February 26, 2014 3:14pm ET
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Hagel says Europeans should step up NATO support
U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, center, arrives for a meeting of defense ministers of the North Atlantic Council at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2014. Frustrated with his Afghan counterpart, U.S. President Barack Obama is ordering the Pentagon to accelerate planning for a full U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan by the end of this year. But Obama is also holding out hope that Afghanistan's next president may eventually sign a stalled security agreement that could prevent the U.S. from having to take that step. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo) | Virginia Mayo

BRUSSELS (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Wednesday the European allies must start bearing more of the burden of modernizing NATO or risk it becoming irrelevant.

In remarks to the opening of a two-day defense ministers meeting at NATO headquarters, Hagel said the current path of declining European defense investment is not sustainable.

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