The Hague (Netherlands), June 25 (LaPresse) – The Hague summit "is also important because of the commitments that are being made. These are significant commitments, and they are sustainable commitments. I want to reiterate this: for Italy, these are necessary expenditures to strengthen our defense and our security in a context that requires it, but in a way that allows us to make these commitments, knowing full well that we will not divert a single euro from the government's other priorities for the defense and protection of Italians. We are talking about a 1.5% increase in defense spending over ten years, which is not far from the commitment Italy already made in 2014, when defense spending stood at 1% of gross domestic product, and pledged, with a commitment that has been reiterated by all the governments that preceded me, to increase it by 1%. Added to this is 1.5% of spending on security.“ This was stated by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in a press briefing at the end of the NATO summit in The Hague. ”These are resources,“ she added, ”that we must spend and do spend on matters far broader than defense. I have said this many times: the issue of security today is a particularly broad domain, which concerns the issue of border defense, which concerns irregular migration, which concerns critical infrastructure, which concerns military mobility, infrastructure in the most general sense, but also artificial intelligence, research, and technological innovation. Therefore, these are resources that are needed to keep this nation strong, as it has always been."