Vooruit and MR Also Against Further Increase in Defense Budget: "5 Percent Is Ridiculous"

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After CD&V chairman Sammy Mahdi, Vooruit chairman Conner Rousseau and his MR colleague Georges-Louis Bouchez also call it unrealistic to increase defense spending to 5 percent of gross domestic product, as NATO demands. According to Defense Minister Theo Francken (N-VA), our country will have no choice but to accede to that demand.

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16:00 Vooruit chairman Conner Rousseau does not want Belgium to spend 5 percent of its GDP on defense in a few years. That figure will probably soon become NATO's new standard.