According to Secretary-General of the Atlantic Alliance, Jens Stoltenberg should be the newness born of the meeting of the representative 28 countries of NATO, a coordination center to fight the Isis. The purpose of the new unit, which will work at the headquarters in Belgium, is to improve the sharing of information on terrorism, with particular attention to the delicate issue of foreign fighters coming to Europe from the “caliphate” in Syria and In Iraq to carry out terrorist actions. A long-awaited improvement, which becomes an indispensable priority in the face of innocent killings in Western countries. US President Donald Trump, who for the first time participated at a summit in NATO, had urged Wednesday something more substantial: a direct military intervention of the Atlantic Alliance in the ongoing effort to defeat the “Islamic State.” And on Monday, British Prime Minister Theresa May, on the wave of the Manchester attack, had made the same request that he repeated in Brussels yesterday. Stoltenberg replied with the classic “ni”: NATO will join the anti-Isis coalition, but that does not mean that it will participate as such in military operations on the ground. Instead of sharing information, there will be an increase in Awacs surveillance flights and the provision of airfares in flight. Prior to the start of the summit, the Secretary-General agreed with the American request, but noted that the unanimity of a Nato participant in combating terrorism against Islamic terrorists was lacking among the twenty-eight. Perplexities would be expressed in particular by Two strong specific partners, France and Germany. According to press releases, US President Donald Trump on Wednesday in Rome would urge Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni to mediate with Paris and Berlin. In his intervention in Brussels, Trump insisted on the need to be “strong, strong and vigilant” on the subject of immigration, “those thousands of people who pour out from us and we do not know who they are.” He exhorted to “hunt and never let them ever return to our countries” the extremists. Then he returned to his battle horse, that of the equitable contribution of all the members to the expenses for NATO. Since the days of his election campaign for the White House, he had promised his supporters that he would have demanded from the European allies respect for payment of defense fees of a minimum of 2 percent on gross national product. Yesterday, the concept was reiterated in very clear terms: “Twenty-seven of our twenty-seven allies pay less than promised, and this is an offense to US taxpayers: 2 percent is not enough, it’s a minimum stake,” said Trump also recalling That “in the last few years the United States has paid the pearl of Nato more than all the other members put together.
