Mitsotakis on CNN: Europe cannot rely only on US for defense

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has welcomed the "clear commitment" by all NATO member states to commit to spending at least 2% of GDP on defense spending, adding that European countries cannot "just rely" on the US for their defense.

"Greece has been doing that for many, many years, and I am happy to see that other countries, which over the past years have clearly not spent as much as they should on defense, are clearly catching up," he said in an wide-ranging interview with CNN anchor Julia Chatterley.

The prime minister said increased defense spending was an important issue for "us Europeans because we cannot just rely on the US for our own defense because we also need to spend more as Europe."