Nato to consider expert panel after Macron brain-dead claim
Critics say setting up group to consider alliance’s future will let politicians pass the buck
Nato is expected to consider at its 70th birthday summit a proposal to set up a “group of experts” in response to Emmanuel Macron’s claim that Nato is brain-dead and its collective security guarantee is under threat.
The German foreign minister, Heiko Maas, first suggested the idea – to be considered at a Nato meeting in London next week – after the French president’s controversial Economist interview in which he bemoaned a lack of coordination between Nato allies over Syria.