All news on the topic: Jens Stoltenberg

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Germany’s Ukraine air defense initiative falls flat
Berlin promised to help Ukraine source crucial air defenses, but the reality has been disappointing.
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Britain sends a message to Trump: NATO is worth investing in
U.K. pledge to hike defense spending is designed to keep U.S. on side.
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Putin’s spies caught working at Nato HQ in humiliating intelligence breach. They’ve been active in Europe for years
It comes after Ukraine warned Germany is ’riddled with Russian spies’
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NATO ministers’ doubts, fears and eye-rolls over €100B Ukraine plan
Making military aid to Kyiv more predictable would send a message to Russia that it won’t win the war, said the alliance chief.
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Putin 'mortgaging Russia's future to China', warns NATO chief amid Ukraine war
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg warned that Russian President Vladimir Putin was "mortgaging Russia's future" to China as it is shunned by the West following its invasion of Ukraine
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Rishi Sunak urges NATO allies to pump more cash into defence
The PM also took a swipe at the alliance's 'out of date' spending reports showing the percentage spent by Britain is due to drop from 2.16% in 2022 to 2.07% in 2023
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Turkey links EU membership bid to row over Sweden joining NATO as summit looms
Ankara is refusing to allow Stockholm to join the Western military alliance - and has now urged NATO countries to back its bid to join the exclusive Brussels bloc
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Zelensky to attend crunch NATO summit in Vilnius as Ukraine-Russia war grinds on
The Ukrainian leader is due to attend the meeting in the Lithuanian capital, alongside Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, US President Joe Biden and French Premier Emmanuel Macron
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NATO chief orders Turkish and Swedish leaders for crunch talks before summit
Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg will hold negotiations with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson as they try to break the deadlock over Sweden's NATO membership bid
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NATO chief launches last ditch-bid to win over Turkey to back Swedish membership
The alliance Secretary-General has summoned Turkish officials to NATO headquarters in Brussels for a showdown next week
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Joe Biden 'torpedoes British bid to take over leadership of NATO'
The US President is understood to favour Jens Stoltenberg remaining in charge of the military alliance, despite British Defence Secretary Ben Wallace being widely tipped for the Secretary-General role
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NATO chief warns Vladimir Putin 'We are one for all, all for one'
Jens Stoltenberg was speaking after a meeting of the alliance's "B9" grouping, made up of former Soviet Union or Warsaw Pact countries
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Vladimir Putin 'thought lazy Nato would abandon Ukraine to Russian troops'
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg claimed the Kremlin leader believed the West would soon tire of backing President Volodymyr Zelensky's regime, but added: “Putin cannot wait us out"
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NATO chief heading to Turkey to stop it blocking Sweden from joining alliance
Jens Stoltenberg, the NATO Secretary General, is under pressure to make progress on Stockholm's application before a crunch summit of world leaders in Lithuania next month
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Putin 'totally underestimated' NATO backing for Ukraine, says alliance chief
Outgoing alliance Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg - and former Norwegian Prime Minister - is preparing to host the organisation's annual leaders' summit in Lithuania this summer
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Liz Truss warns China 'biggest threat facing the West' ahead of Taiwan visit
Former Prime Minister Liz Truss ramped up her war of words with Beijing hours before flying to Taipei to show solidarity with the breakaway island
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Outgoing NATO chief's swipe at countries not paying their fair share on defence
Alliance Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg used the closing preference of a two-day summit at coalition headquarters to highlight broken spending pledges by NATO members
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Russia threatens retaliation as NATO says it would go to war to protect Finland
Helsinki has formally joined the nuclear-armed alliance - meaning it enjoys the protection of the coalition's Article V 'one for all and all for one' defensive pledge
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NATO 'more united than ever' says Foreign Secretary as Finland joins alliance
James Cleverly welcomed Helsinki's entry into the 74-year-old, 30-member organsation - and vowed to press ahead with allowing Sweden into the nuclear-armed coalition
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Finland to formally join NATO tomorrow, Jens Stoltenberg announces
Alliance Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg announced Helsinki would be formally admitted to the coalition on Tuesday
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NATO chief says 'dangerous world' demands 'more ambitious' defence spending
Alliance Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg outlined plans to demand more money from the coalition's 30 members - even though the vast majority of countries do not even meet the current 2% benchmark
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Russian victory in Ukraine could push China to invade Taiwan, NATO chief warns
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg warned "what happens in Europe today can happen in Asia tomorrow" suggesting that Beijing could be watching the Russia-Ukraine war closely to see how a similar invasion of Taiwan could work
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Ukraine will join NATO, declares alliance chief in new blow to Vladimir Putin
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg declared war-torn Ukraine will be admitted to the alliance in the long-term, as he began talks in Helsinki with Finnish leaders
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Ukraine invasion exposed Europe’s ’vulnerabilities’, admits UK defence chief
But Ben Wallace branded fears the UK would not be able to take over a key NATO responsibility as ’just b*******’ when he was tackled about the claim on live television
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Ukraine invasion exposed Europe's 'vulnerabilities', admits UK defence chief
But Ben Wallace branded fears the UK would not be able to take over a key NATO responsibility as 'just b*******' when he was tackled about the claim on live television
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