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Washington Post: Hagel prods Europeans to pay fair share of NATO expenses

Published June 3, 2014 at 6:54 pm

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told a meeting of NATO defense ministers here in pointed remarks designed to reinforce the message that Obama delivered simultaneously in Warsaw.

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President Obama’s announcement Tuesday of a new $1 billion fund for military operations to reassure nervous eastern European allies was also part of an effort to pressure — or shame — the rest of Europe into paying their fair share of NATO expenses.