NATO Boss Pushes For More Europe Defense Spending

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen on March 27 urged "paper tiger" Europe to ramp up investment in a costly missile defense umbrella.

The alliance chief's remarks at a security conference in Brussels were largely aimed at the likes of EU heavyweights Germany, Italy and Spain, who fall substantially short of NATO military spending targets.

Britain and France, whose budgets are under ferocious pressure over the coming years having dug deep in a bid to insulate citizens from the worst economic slump since the 1930s, were also clearly in Rasmussen's sights.

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