Europe's NATO members take an economic hit

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  Npr.

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  This is the indicator from Planet Money.

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  I'm Waylon Wong.

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  And I'm Paddy Hirsch.

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  In the wake of the Trump administration wrecking Cruz visit to Europe two weeks ago,

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  European politicians

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  and bureaucrats are desperately trying to figure

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  out what the future of their relationships with the US look like.

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  The UK prime minister's in the White House today trying to get a handle on it.

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  One thing that looks increasingly certain when it comes to defense,

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  members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization,

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  which of course includes a lot of European nations, are going to have to pay more.

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  For years, President Trump has complained that many NATO members have been getting a free ride.

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  Yeah, well, that ride appears to be coming to an end.

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  Trump's envoys signaled not only

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  that they will be insisting on all NATO members meeting their obligations,

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  but they want to see the threshold raised from 2 to 5% of GDP.

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  We're talking about hundreds of billions of dollars being spent

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  by countries that are already struggling economically.

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  On today's show, we'll talk about where all of that money might come from.

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