The UK has reiterated its support for NATO as being the bedrock of Europe’s defence and security needs, with one minister stating that European countries ‘would feel a chill wind’ without a US contribution to the alliance.
Providing evidence to the House of Lords’ EU Security and Justice Sub-Committee on 1 December on the future of UK-EU defence cooperation, Baroness Annabel Goldie, Minister of State at the MoD, stated that 80% of defence investment into NATO now comes from non-EU members.
Goldie told the committee that NATO would ‘continue to be the dominant presence’ in European security, adding that while
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