President Michael D Higgins’s recent comments about increased Nato military funding have been sharply criticised by a former president of Estonia. Speaking at the Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition in Dublin this week, Mr Higgins said calls from Nato’s secretary general to member states to increase funding for military uses, were “appalling”. Nato secretary general Mark Rutte has repeatedly called on Nato members to increase military spending from current targets of about 2 per cent of each member’s GDP, to at least 3 per cent by 2030. “We will have to spend more ... It will be much more than...