Sentence examples for NATO from inspiring English sources

Elected president in 2004, he pushed Georgia towards the west, setting membership in the EU and Nato as top foreign policy goals.

Estonia joined the EU and Nato in 2004, and, thanks to the quick recovery, entered the eurozone in 2011.

Both the US and Nato have accused Russia of staging another Crimea-style intervention.

But it will be necessary to meet the challenge of terrorism by constructing a coalition of allies from both the EU and Nato.

It happened in a different time, in a different geopolitical space, long before the two new countries worked their way – separately – into Nato and the European Union.

- Support strong and decisive action against international terrorism; enhance the UK's ties to the United States and other Nato allies; oppose the European Union's proposed constitution and campaign for Britain to take the lead in supporting the developing world.

He also said that at a time of "burning security crisis not seen since the cold war", most key meetings were now being convened at EU level, rather than within Nato, and it was vital that the UK was there to shape decisions.

He stressed that the UK currently meets the Nato target, but said that spending levels after 2016 would be determined by a spending review.

Defence minister Philip Dunne responded that the UK had the second largest defence budget in Nato and the largest in the EU.

It will not lead to the UK dropping below its present Nato commitment to spend 2% of GDP on defence.

The country, lucky at the time to still have Václav Havel as its president, drifted into Nato in 1999 and into the EU in 2004 while sometimes giving the impression that it is even now not sure it has done the right thing.