The US has called on Denmark to step up measures to increase its military budget to the 2 percent level stipulated by NATO, dismissing a recent budget hike that puts Denmark’s spending in the same group as Germany, as insufficient.
Denmark’s massive DKK 4.5 billion ($690 million) hike implemented specifically to please its trans-Atlantic ally was “far from enough”, US ambassador Carla Sands said, as quoted by the business newspaper Børsen.
Denmark’s military spending has dropped below the 2 percent level since the Cold War ended.