Vance Meets NATO Secretary General Rutte at Munich Security Conference

Vice President JD Vance met with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte at the Munich Security Conference on Feb. 14, 2025. Rutte had taken over as NATO secretary general in October 2024; Vance pressed Rutte on the administration's demand that NATO member states raise defense spending to 5 percent of GDP—a threshold no NATO country had reached and that European members argued was economically impractical.