NATO chief: Europe needs more defense spending

Published May 15, 2014 3:42pm ET



BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — NATO’s secretary general is pushing European countries to invest more in defense to better cope with crises such as the Ukraine conflict, but some governments remain resistant.

Anders Fogh Rasmussen told participants in a security conference in Slovakia on Thursday that NATO members that don’t spend enough on defense risk being “free-riders.”

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