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Still, that deep EU information supplies a marked distinction between Rutte (who was Dutch PM for 14 years) and his predecessor (who comes from non-EU Norway).
“I’m good buddies with all of the senior leaders in EU, and I’m trying ahead to working with them,” Rutte stated, including that he is scheduled conferences with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and António Costa, the incoming European Council president.
“I welcome, I have to say, EU’s efforts on protection,” Rutte pressured, a considerably extra constructive stance in direction of the EU than Stoltenberg, who was skeptical of the bloc’s plans on protection coverage. “Nobody desires, as an example, duplication of what NATO already is doing, so I feel we might be on one web page on this.”
As NATO chief, Rutte is meant to be impartial on home politics and guarantee continued help from all allies regardless of political modifications.
That requirement is all of the extra mandatory in terms of the U.S.
“President Trump, due to him, we pushed up the protection spending, we sped up the protection spending because the summit right here in 2018 notably, but in addition what he stated on China is now very a lot taken on board, I feel, by many people,” Rutte stated.
Kamala Harris, then again, “has a document as vp and now as a candidate in defending American values.”
“I respect them each very a lot,” Rutte added.
