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Wouter Beke

Wouter Beke

Member of the European Parliament

Oct 2, 2026

2:43
And who is to blame for this naivety of the past?
2:47
Well, I don't think that we have to look to the past.
2:49
I mean, in, in the past, the paradigm of the NATO was we have to keep the Russians out, the Germans down, and the Americans in, and now we are in a new, in, in a new time.
3:00
Uh, uh, and, but, but the key question is still how to keep the Russians out.
3:06
And when we look to the European budgets, we doubled the budgets in five year.
3:11
The national budgets of defense doubled in five year.
3:16
Now we have two to point two percent of the national budget spending on defense.
7:42
Where is it?

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