• Group of Seven leaders (clockwise, from center) U.S. President Barack Obama, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande, British Prime Minister David Cameron, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, European Council President Donald Tusk, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper attend a working dinner at the G-7 summit at the Elmau Castle near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, southern Germany, Sunday. Obama took the summit opportunity to push Cameron to keep British defense spending from falling below NATO targets. | AFP-JIJI
    Group of Seven leaders (clockwise, from center) U.S. President Barack Obama, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande, British Prime Minister David Cameron, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, European Council President Donald Tusk, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper attend a working dinner at the G-7 summit at the Elmau Castle near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, southern Germany, Sunday. Obama took the summit opportunity to push Cameron to keep British defense spending from falling below NATO targets. | AFP-JIJI

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KRUEN, GERMANY – U.S. President Barack Obama told Prime Minister David Cameron he hoped Britain would keep military spending at 2 percent of national output, despite London’s need to cut a sizeable budget deficit, a British source said on Sunday.

Obama pressed Cameron on the sensitive subject in a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of a summit of the Group of Seven industrial nations in Germany amid concern in the United States that defense spending in its closest ally could be poised to fall below the NATO target.

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