Rutte, speaking alongside Latvian President Edgars Rinkevics, called on NATO members to increase defense spending and production capacities.

As secretary-general, Rutte does not have the authority to "personally expel" a country from the alliance. While he leads the alliance, according to NATO's website, "authority for taking decisions is invested only in the member governments themselves."

For Gilles Mentré, former diplomat at the French Embassy in Moscow, who was interviewed on LCI, the position of the future US administration will weaken NATO and possibly fracture the European Union.