According to a report in Reuters, NATO officials are now trying to minimize public tensions with President Trump by cancelling an upcoming NATO annual summit. According to six unnamed sources, “NATO is considering ending its recent practice of holding annual summits… a move that could avoid a potentially tense encounter with U.S. President Donald Trump in his final year in office.”
This year’s NATO summit is already scheduled, and will take place in Ankara, Turkey, July 7-8; next year’s summit is, too, and will be in Albania; but the 2028 summit may be cancelled. Reuters quotes Phyllis Berry, a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, who justifies the decision: “Reducing high-profile summitry would allow NATO to get on with its business and dial down the drama that has marked many recent transatlantic encounters.”
