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Published January 22, 2026 | Video Starts at 09:51

And secondly, we should not give up on NATO. At the historic NATO summit in the Hague last June, we created the material prerequisites for this. Europe will invest hundreds of billions of euros in its security. It was a remarkable transatlantic success. Now we must repair the trust on which the alliance is built. Europe knows how precious it is. (09:51–09:58)

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“We must rapidly make our economies competitive and we are doing this.”
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“Washington argued that this is an imperative to counter security threats in the High North.”
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“We share the conviction that as European NATO allies, we must do more to secure the High north as NATO.”
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“Germany is doing just that. We are doing it in the framework of NATO and we will do more.”
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