NATO chief says Europe meets target after Trump suggests abandoning laggards

Open this photo in gallery: NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg talks during a Pre-ministerial press conference before a Defence Ministers’ meeting of the North Atlantic Council at the Nato headquarters, in Brussels on Feb. 14.JOHN THYS/Getty Images NATO said on Wednesday that Europe was meeting an alliance spending target and the United States needed allies, days after former U.S. President Donald Trump suggested that Washington might not protect countries that did not spend enough. NATO's European states would invest a combined total of $380 billion in defence this year, taking their spending as a whole to an estimated 2% of…