The NATO alliance has canceled a planned summit of heads of state and government that was supposed to take place in Albania in 2027 and is reducing the number of summits "against growing tensions within the alliance around defense spending, Iran and the war in Ukraine."
This was reported by the Associated Press (AP), noting that the summit will not take place in 2027, but may take place in Tirana in 2028, and NATO Secretary General Mark Roth downplayed the importance of this decision and said that "the alliance will hold summits as needed. ".
Under NATO's revised schedule, defense ministers will also miss their scheduled October 2027 meeting, and foreign ministers will meet only once next year, instead of twice. According to the first comments, one of the main versions is to sharply reduce the intensity of interaction in NATO until the end of Donald Trump's term, in order to avoid a split in the organization, since the members of the alliance "now have very different priorities. ".