Welcome to the world in 10 in an increasingly uncertain world.
This is the Times daily podcast dedicated to global security today with me,
Alex Dibble and Tom Noonan.
Ireland spends less than a quarter of a percent of GDP on defence.
That's one twentieth of what Donald Trump has said he wants from European nations.
Now, Ireland isn't a NATO member, but despite its very low defence spending, its Taoiseach,
Michel Martin,
received a warm welcome from the President when he visited the White House on Wednesday.
Of course, some other European nations who are NATO members also spend very little.
We'll be looking into this today
while also looking at a key European defense summit which went relatively unnoticed
as the world's attention was focused on the ceasefire talks between the us,
Ukraine and Russia.
In fact, we're going to start with that summit in Paris with our guest today,
the Times is Michael Binion,
who over the last 50 years has written for the paper from Washington D.C. moscow,
Brussels and the old West Germany.
Michael, was there anything new agreed at this meeting?
It feels like news from the summit has been lost.
As I said, amongst all the developments surrounding the ceasefire talks, it has rather.