NATO retains ‘open-door policy’ despite US opposition to a ‘perpetually expanding alliance’

Countries looking to join NATO are still welcome to apply, a top alliance official said Wednesday in tacit repudiation of the Trump administration’s recent declaration that the group must not be a “perpetually expanding alliance.”NATO has an open-door policy, the alliance’s parliamentary secretary general, Benedetta Berti, told reporters Wednesday at an event hosted by the Project for Media and National Security. That was reaffirmed as recently as June’s summit, but