ROME: Nato head Jens Stoltenberg welcomed on Friday European efforts for a more closely integrated defence policy, boosted since Britain´s vote to leave the EU, but warned against trying to create “an alternative” to the North Atlantic Alliance.
“Stronger European defence will be good for the European Union, it will be good for Europe and will be good for Nato,” he said at a press conference with Italian foreign minister Paolo Gentiloni in Rome.
Stoltenberg said enhanced cooperation between European nations could only be positive and urged countries to increase defence spending because “we live in a more dangerous world with new …read more
Source: The News International
