{"id":94486,"date":"2017-03-18T03:56:19","date_gmt":"2017-03-18T07:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=94486"},"modified":"2017-03-18T03:56:19","modified_gmt":"2017-03-18T07:56:19","slug":"trump-urges-merkel-to-pay-bigger-share-of-nato-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/03\/18\/trump-urges-merkel-to-pay-bigger-share-of-nato-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump urges Merkel to pay bigger share of NATO costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_88804\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-88804\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/01-Besuch_von_US-Pr\u00e4sident_Obama_2016_in_Deutschland_-_Hannover_-_Pressekonferenz_06.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88804\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/01-Besuch_von_US-Pr\u00e4sident_Obama_2016_in_Deutschland_-_Hannover_-_Pressekonferenz_06.jpg\" alt=\"US President Donald Trump affirmed his &quot;strong support&quot; for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in his meeting Friday with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, but urged Europe's biggest economy and other partners to make a bigger financial contribution to the military alliance (Photo by WDKrause (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0)])\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/01-Besuch_von_US-Pr\u00e4sident_Obama_2016_in_Deutschland_-_Hannover_-_Pressekonferenz_06.jpg 800w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/01-Besuch_von_US-Pr\u00e4sident_Obama_2016_in_Deutschland_-_Hannover_-_Pressekonferenz_06-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/01-Besuch_von_US-Pr\u00e4sident_Obama_2016_in_Deutschland_-_Hannover_-_Pressekonferenz_06-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-88804\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">US President Donald Trump affirmed his &#8220;strong support&#8221; for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in his meeting Friday with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, but urged Europe&#8217;s biggest economy and other partners to make a bigger financial contribution to the military alliance (Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File%3A01-Besuch_von_US-Pr%C3%A4sident_Obama_2016_in_Deutschland_-_Hannover_-_Pressekonferenz_06.JPG\">WDKrause (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0)]<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>WASHINGTON\u2014US President Donald Trump affirmed his &#8220;strong support&#8221; for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in his meeting Friday with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, but urged Europe&#8217;s biggest economy and other partners to make a bigger financial contribution to the military alliance.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a joint news conference after their meeting at the White House, Trump also said he does not believe in isolationism with regard to trade, but that he wants &#8220;fair&#8221; trade he believes will benefit American workers and industry.<\/p>\n<p>Merkel said she told Trump that Germany is committed to meeting a target for members of the North Atlantic Treaty Alliance to allocate 2 percent or more of gross domestic product to defense spending<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON\u2014US President Donald Trump affirmed his &#8220;strong support&#8221; for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in his meeting Friday with &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":88804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,16,17],"tags":[9869],"class_list":["post-94486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news","category-news-w","tag-donald-trump","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}