Czech PM slams John Bolton’s account of ‘inept’ comments on NATO funding target

Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš has rejected an account by former US national security adviser John Bolton of their conversation on meeting NATO funding targets as a percentage of GDP.

In Bolton’s new memoir, “The Room Where It Happened,” he describes Babiš as having made “the most inept comment” at the 2018 NATO summit in Brussels, complaining that as the economy grew it was difficult to meet the 2% of GDP commitment agreed at the 2014 NATO Summit in Wales.

Babiš said on Tuesday he had in fact argued that percentage of GDP was less important than increasing the absolute amount spent and his words were misunderstood and taken out of context. Babiš said he now understood why President Trump had sacked Bolton if he could not understand such a simple thing. (In fact, Bolton resigned from the post.)