Donald Trump will be handed a one-page communiqué to sign off at a Nato leaders’ summit, in an effort to avoid sparking a row between Europe and the US president, The Telegraph can disclose.

The simplified statement will likely only contain around five or six paragraphs, detailing how the Western military alliance will meet Mr Trump’s demand to increase defence spending to 5 per cent of GDP.

The summit in The Hague will also be modelled on a similar leaders gathering in London in 2019, which was deliberately kept short because of the president’s attention span.

The one-page communiqué will be almost entirely focused on the historic decision to more than double spending on defence by leaders to meet new capability targets for deterring a Russian invasion.