According to NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, 23 of NATO’s 32 nations ar Former President Donald Trump took credit for increases in military spending by NATO nations.

President Trump has long been a critic of NATO and believes Europe does not contribute enough to its own defense. NATO ...

The United States remained the dominant military power with spending of $997 billion—accounting for 37 percent of the global total and 66 percent of NATO's collective $1.506 trillion expenditure.

NATO nations boosted their collective spending on defence by around $120 billion in 2024 from the previous year, with the ...

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte is urging European allies and Canada to significantly accelerate their defense spending in ...

Europecategory· April 17, 2025 Italy says to meet NATO spending goal this year by accounting changes Italy will meet NATO's 2% of gross domestic product (GDP) target on defence spending this year ...

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio criticises NATO allies for low defence spending, demanding 5% of GDP to ensure NATO's ...

Sánchez said the government will raise defense spending by 10.5 billion euros ($12 billion) to reach NATO’s target of 2% of ...

That’s a good thing. What is not good, however, is the fact that Italy continues to woefully neglect its defense spending obligations under NATO. Like all NATO allies, Italy pledged in 2014 to ...

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“So this is probably the biggest increase in defense spending here on the European side of NATO since the end of ... It’s only logical that you have that debate.” Europe is nervously eyeing ...