In an interview on Sunday, US President-Elect Donald Trump repeated that the “NATO is obsolete,” and that many NATO members are not paying their full contribution to the military alliance, which includes Albania.
A lot of these countries aren’t paying what they’re supposed to be paying, which I think is very unfair to the United States. […] With that being said, NATO is very important to me. There’s five countries that are paying what they’re supposed to. Five. It’s not much.
Late November, President Bujar Nishani had expressed his concerns to Parliament that the 2017 draft budget for defense was 2.8 times lower than the 2% of GDP standard set by the NATO.
