{"id":34014,"date":"2023-05-04T10:50:36","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T10:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/denmark-proposes-spending-extra\/"},"modified":"2023-05-04T10:54:47","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T10:54:47","slug":"denmark-proposes-spending-extra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/denmark-proposes-spending-extra\/","title":{"rendered":"Denmark proposes spending extra $5.7 billion for armed forces over 10 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COPENHAGEN (Reuters) &#8211;     Denmark&#8217;s government on Thursday proposed allocating an extra 38 billion Danish crowns ($5.65 billion) over the coming 10 years to upgrade its armed forces and to cope with a backlog in investments.<\/p>\n<p>The allocation would come in addition to Denmark&#8217;s commitment last year to permanently increase its spending on defence and security to 2% of the country&#8217;s gross domestic product by the end of 2030, a key goal for NATO member states.<\/p>\n<p>The money is intended to &#8220;re-establish the foundation of the armed forces,&#8221; the country&#8217;s acting Defence Minister Troels Lund Poulsen told journalists on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to a lack of military investments, global security and economic developments had put pressure on defence spending, Lund Poulsen said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are short of soldiers. Many buildings are either outdated or simply worn out. The same is true for some of the Armed Forces&#8217; equipment and IT systems,&#8221; Danish Defence chief Flemming Lentfer said.<\/p>\n<p>The 38 billion crowns will be included in the government&#8217;s defence agreement that will be presented later this month, Lund Poulsen said.    <\/p>\n<p>($1 = 6.7224 Danish crowns)<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p> (Reporting by Louise Breusch Rasmussen, editing by Terje Solsvik, William Maclean)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/denmark-proposes-spending-extra\/file-photo-dynamic-front-military-exercise-led-by-the-united-2\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ430EA-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ430EA-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COPENHAGEN (Reuters) &#8211; Denmark&#8217;s government on Thursday proposed allocating an extra 38 billion Danish crowns ($5.65 billion) over the coming 10 years to upgrade its armed forces and to cope with a backlog in investments. The allocation would come in addition to Denmark&#8217;s commitment last year to permanently increase its spending on defence and security [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":34015,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-u-s-world-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ430EA-VIEWIMAGE.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34016,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34014\/revisions\/34016"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}