'We've always been able to agree around our core task to protect and defend each other,' NATO's Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said.
French President Emmanuel Macron drew a sharp rebuke from NATO-ally Turkey after he said three weeks ago that the 70-year old military alliance of 29 countries was experiencing "brain death."
"Sometimes NATO allies don't agree on all issues," he said, speaking to CNBC's Hadley Gamble the day before the NATO summit begins at a location just outside London. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan responded by saying Macron should check whether he himself was "brain dead." the 70th anniversary of the military alliance, a 29-member group that was initially set up in 1949 as a defense against the perceived post-war threat from the Soviet Union.
Investment is a thorny subject for NATO. Last year, Trump chided the alliance for not contributing enough to defense spending and for overly relying on the U.S.
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