Mark Rutte, the outgoing prime minister of the Netherlands, is set to become NATO’s next secretary-general after the only remaining opposition candidate withdrew from the race.
Romanian President Klaus Iohannis, who had sought leadership of the military alliance, officially declared that he was no longer interested after a meeting of Romania’s Supreme Council of National Defence on June 20. At the same meeting, the council approved the donation of a Patriot air defense system to Ukraine, which Kyiv had been pleading for.
