NATO Next Steps: Upgrade the Role of Finance Ministers | The Heritage Foundation

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : Beginning now, while the member nations are preparing for the summit, the Trump administration should press its fellow heads of state to include their finance ministers in their summit delegations.
54% : The assembled heads of state will also be in a position to assess how effectively and swiftly the alliance and its individual members are implementing key decisions taken last year at the 2016 Warsaw summit and the Brussels "mini-summit.
50% : Moreover, European heads of state could enlist them as partners in explaining to the public why defense spending must be prioritized.
47% : By including them in summit discussion, the heads of state will be far more likely to gain their "buy-in" to prioritize defense expenditures over more politically appealing spending alternatives.

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