NATO shakes off infighting amid public rifts
NATO has insisted it is continuing to deliver on its defence commitments despite public comments from partner nations that suggest a number of high-profile disagreements are severely disrupting the alliance.
Defending the organisation during the NATO Engages conference in London on 3 December, Jens Stoltenberg, NATO secretary general, said that ‘unity should not be questioned,’ in light of recent criticism from Emmanuel Macron that the ‘brain death’ of NATO is at hand.
Reports that Turkey is unwilling to support a new NATO managed defence plan for the Baltic region and Poland due to a lack of support from allies for
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