As NATO undertakes the largest scaling-up of its defences since the Cold War to the east, allies such as Spain and Italy worry threats on the southern border risk being ignored
Spain will urge fellow NATO allies to consider a bigger role for the alliance in North Africa and the Sahel at a summit in Madrid on Thursday, with Spain’s foreign minister saying an intervention in Mali should not be ruled out.
As the group gathered for the early session, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said the focus would be addressing challenges including the causes of instability and “stepping up” the fight against terrorism. “If it were necessary and if it posed a threat to our security, we would do it,” he told local radio station RNE. “We don’t rule it out.”
In January 2020, then U.S. President Donald Trump tried to expand NATO to include Middle Eastern nations, arguing that European armies should do more to fight Islamist militants. The proposal did not gain support. NATO was created in 1949 to defend against the Soviet Union and is enjoying a renewed sense of purpose following Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine, looking mainly eastwards.
The U.S.-led alliance also faces a slew of fresh demands, from countering Russia and China to developing its defences in space and on computer networks.
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