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NATO Increases Military Budget by 12%

US soldiers, part of the NATO-led peacekeeping force KFOR, guard the municipal building of the Serb-majority municipality of Leposavic, Kosovo December 8, 2023. REUTERS/Valdrin Xhemaj
US soldiers, part of the NATO-led peacekeeping force KFOR, guard the municipal building of the Serb-majority municipality of Leposavic, Kosovo December 8, 2023. REUTERS/Valdrin Xhemaj
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NATO Increases Military Budget by 12%

US soldiers, part of the NATO-led peacekeeping force KFOR, guard the municipal building of the Serb-majority municipality of Leposavic, Kosovo December 8, 2023. REUTERS/Valdrin Xhemaj
US soldiers, part of the NATO-led peacekeeping force KFOR, guard the municipal building of the Serb-majority municipality of Leposavic, Kosovo December 8, 2023. REUTERS/Valdrin Xhemaj

NATO said on Wednesday that it was increasing its military budget for 2024 by 12% to 2.03 billion euros and its civil budget by 18.2% to 438.1 million euros.
Increasing and broadening the use of NATO common funding allows allies to more effectively address shared security challenges, NATO said in the statement announcing the increase.
NATO’s civil budget provides funds for personnel, operating costs and program expenditures of NATO's headquarters and its international staff, while the military budget covers the operating costs of NATO Command Structure headquarters, missions and operations around the world.

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Danish PM Tells Trump It Is up to Greenland to Decide on Independence

Prime Minister of Denmark Mette Frederiksen attends the Baltic Sea NATO Allies Summit in Helsinki, Finland, 14 January 2025. (EPA)
Prime Minister of Denmark Mette Frederiksen attends the Baltic Sea NATO Allies Summit in Helsinki, Finland, 14 January 2025. (EPA)
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Danish PM Tells Trump It Is up to Greenland to Decide on Independence

Prime Minister of Denmark Mette Frederiksen attends the Baltic Sea NATO Allies Summit in Helsinki, Finland, 14 January 2025. (EPA)
Prime Minister of Denmark Mette Frederiksen attends the Baltic Sea NATO Allies Summit in Helsinki, Finland, 14 January 2025. (EPA)

Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said on Wednesday she had spoken on the phone with US President-elect Donald Trump and told him that it is up to Greenland itself to decide on any independence.

Trump, who takes office on Jan. 20, said last week that US control of Greenland was an "absolute necessity" and did not rule out using military or economic action such as tariffs against Denmark to make it happen.

"In the conversation, the prime minister referred to the statements of the Chairman of the Greenlandic Parliament, Mute B. Egede, that Greenland is not for sale," Frederiksen's office said in a statement.

"The prime minister emphasized that it is up to Greenland itself to make a decision on independence," the statement said.

Frederiksen also stressed the importance of strengthening security in the Arctic and that Denmark was open to taking a greater responsibility, it added.