Mark Rutte is completely aligned with Donald Trump. He already demonstrated this at the NATO summit last June in The Hague, when many accused him of being too accommodating to the US president, or even something else. And he made this clear again this Wednesday when asked about the Trump administration's repeated accusations against the Spanish government.

"President Trump has been extremely important in making the NATO summit a success. I've said it before: without him, this 5% result, including the 3.5% in defense spending, would never have been achieved," Rutte said when asked about Trump's increasing pressure on Spain and the US president's suggestion that the country should be expelled from NATO.

Rutte also pointed out that not only is Trump pushing for the 5% spending target, but he himself is doing so."The good thing is that in The Hague we had unanimity. All 32, including Spain, agreed on the capacity targets. I think that's important to point out," he stressed.

And what these goals stipulate, according to NATO, is that all countries must achieve 5% of GDP in defense spending. Spain believes not; that 2% is sufficient. However, following pressure from the US and also the Alliance, Defense Minister Margarita Robles has for the first time opened up about increasing military investment in the future.

"What will happen in 2030 or 2035, I think absolutely no one can know," he said this Thursday, also from Brussels. In ten years, we'll see