Carney to attend the NATO Summit, Canada – the European Union in Europe – Watani

prime minister Mark Carney He goes to Europe on the weekend to attend the summits NATO Canadian relations-European Union.

The Prime Minister’s Office confirmed Kareni’s travel plans today, after it ended the Summit of the 7 Group Leaders in Alberta.

Carney will go to Brussels on Sunday to meet European leaders.

The Prime Minister’s office said that the leaders will work to “deepen the relationship of Canada-the European Union in all sectors”, including trade and defense.

Carney will go to The Hague in the Netherlands on Tuesday and Wednesday.

The Prime Minister’s office said that Carney will participate with the allies at the summit “to meet the advanced threats in a more dangerous and divided world.”

The NATO meeting is likely to focus on defensive spending. NATO allies are expected to adopt a plan to raise the goal of defense spending to members to five percent of national gross domestic product – the level of Canada has not reached since the fifties.

Carney announced last week that Canada will quickly present the timetable for its military spending on the current goal of NATO by 2 percent of the national gross domestic product by adding 9 billion dollars to the financial framework this year.

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Carney has warned that Canada is more than reliable the United States increasingly for its defense and spending a lot of armament budget in the south of the border.

NATO gross domestic outputs put the Canadian economy in the amount of $ 3.1 trillion for this year, making NATO’s commitment by 2 percent estimated at about $ 62.5 billion, according to senior government officials.

The federal government is currently spending about 1.45 percent of the real gross domestic product on the defense and has not spent anything near two percent since 1990 – despite the promise of its largest allies for years.

At a press conference that closed the Group Summit on Tuesday, Carney said that the attention of the allies will turn next week from addressing threats to economic security to address global defense and security issues in NATO and European Union.

“We realize that our leadership will be defined not only through the strength of our values, but the values ​​of our strength,” he told reporters.

– With files from Kyle Duggan and Nick Murray

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