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Italy Refuses to Count the 13.5 Billion of Sicily's Megabridge as Defense Expenditure After Being Warned by the Us

The U.S. ambassador to NATO, Matthew Whitaker, has warned that the money spent on “bridges that do not have strategic military value” cannot be counted as military expenditure, after which Italy has announced its resignation from the movement in this sense that it had planned to do with the investment on the Messina bridge.Following the agreement reached last June by NATO countries to raise its military budgets to 5% of GDP in 2035 (3.5% in pure…
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The U.S. ambassador to NATO, Matthew Whitaker, has warned that the money spent on “bridges that do not have strategic military value” cannot be counted as military expenditure, after which Italy has announced its resignation from the movement in this sense that it had planned to do with the investment on the Messina bridge.Following the agreement reached last June by NATO countries to raise its military budgets to 5% of GDP in 2035 (3.5% in pure…

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Revista Defensa Infodefensa.com broke the news in on Friday, September 5, 2025.
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