The Chairman of the Munich Security Conference, Christoph Heusgen, is calling for the European pillar of NATO to be strengthened. On Thursday evening, at the security policy discussion organized by the Bavarian State Chancellery and the German Atlantic Society in Munich’s Prinz-Carl-Palais, he spoke out in favor of „burden-sharing“ between the European NATO states and the USA. According to Heusgen, US Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump had already called for Germany to finally achieve the two percent target set by NATO.