chief says turkey s president erdogan has now agreed to support sweden s bid tojoin nato. that was a priority for us presidentjoe biden, who touched down in vilnius on the eve of the summit. it s clears the last major hurdle for sweden s accession. let s take a listen to what the nato secretary general jens stoltenberg, had to say. i think what we did today builds and we did in madrid because they agreed to invite finland and sweden to become members and the ratification process has been finalised or finland, finland is already a full member and now president erdogan has indicated they are ready to ratify sweden. our correspondent lewis vaughanjones has been following developments in vilnius. it seems this nato summit here in vilnius will be getting under way after a very significant concrete achievement. ian s stoltenberg, the head of nato, announcing that turkey had agreed sweden could start the process to membership. ,jens. why is that so significant? within nato, each a
they? forso companies have a dilemma, don t they? for so long, companies have a dilemma, don t they? forso long, governments haven t met their spending commitments. did they invest now in the next generations of weapons when they don t know how long the war might last? might last? exactly. first, thanks for havin: might last? exactly. first, thanks for having me- might last? exactly. first, thanks for having me. i might last? exactly. first, thanks for having me. i think might last? exactly. first, thanks for having me. i think they re - for having me. i think they re looking at stuff like many european companies. the concern is that all attention is on ukraine and nato members are talking about reaching the spending target that lots of countries have field to do. the big question is what will happen five or ten years down the line. the general who heads us forces to put together a report. in terms of where its focus will be, how in arms itself, what would you expect to
by 11 of the 31 members of the alliance. uk prime minister rishi sunak is expected to urge nato allies to learn the lessons from russia s invasion of ukraine and invest more in defence. joining me now is hugo brennan, research director at the risk intelligence company verisk maplecroft. good morning to you, hugo. so, just talk us through the level of defence spending going on at the moment. because this has been a contentious issue for years within nato, hasn t it? it very much has been, yeah. i mean, the first thing to say is the question of who foots the bill to pay for the alliance? as you say, that s long been a question mark. you ll remember back to 2019, when donald trump made it very much top of the agenda. and again, it s going to be in this latest nato summit. as you said, we re expecting some sort of agreement that will make it a requirement for nato member states to spend at least 2% of their gdp on defence spending, which would build on that 2014 agreement you r
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