Defence spending target over 2% says Cavo Dragone

(ANSA) - ROME, FEB 1 - NATO members will need to quickly reach defence spending targets over 2% of GDP but each nation must decide how and when to manage the target based on their situation, Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone, Chair of the NATO Military Committee, told ANSA on Saturday.
    "Each nation of NATO will need to quickly reach defence spending levels of over 2% of GDP because we have established that it's not enough anymore", he said.
    This will be obtained "with the timing and ways that each nation will establish based on its situation, because nations remain sovereign", added the admiral. "It's useless to make grand announcements without taking capitals into account.
    "Apart from talking about growing numbers, which can be 3% or 5%, I believe that real and honest soul-searching is subsequently necessary - that we must spend better and together", he said. (ANSA).