US President-elect Donald Trump has called on Nato's European members to spend 5% of their national incomes on defence. That is more than double the military alliance's current target of 2%.
Lithuania and Estonia have become the first NATO members to pledge an increase in defense spending to five percent of GDP, according to a report.
Lithuania is to increase its defense spending to between 5 percent and 6 percent of its GDP from 2026, matching Trump's ...
NATO CHIEF CREDITS TRUMP FOR RECORD NUMBER OF MEMBERS MEETING SPENDING TARGETS Here's a breakdown of which countries are meeting the 2% defense spending threshold for the first time and those that ...
NATO has increasingly found itself in the spotlight since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, with new countries seeking membership and former U.S. President Donald Trump, once again a ...