Romania and Bulgaria need to increase defense spending beyond 2% of GDP to strengthen NATO's southeastern flank amid ...

Greece itself spent nearly 3.1% of its GDP on defense last year, NATO estimates. Athens has been consistently exceeding the 2% target for many years and began ramping up defense expenses further in ...

Barrow-in-Furness has crumbled since the end of the Cold War. Will growing military threats revive the nuclear ...

Chancellor Friedrich Merz inaugurated a groundbreaking German brigade in Lithuania that is meant to help protect NATO’s ...

NATO leaders are expected to approve an updated spending target at the summit. One proposal under consideration involves ...

US Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker said the alliance needs to present clear steps to meet a defense spending target of 5% ...

Chancellor Friedrich Merz for the first time publicly advocated spending up to 5% of the German economy on defense.

NATO will raise the defence spending target for its member nations to between 3.5% and 5% of gross domestic product (GDP) ...

In 2024, it reached an estimated €326 billion - about 1.9% of EU GDP. Expenditure is expected to rise by more than another €100 billion in real terms by 2027. If we take into account only the 23 EU ...

NATO countries look on course to agree a deal on ramping up their defence spending target at a summit in The Hague next month in a bid to satisfy US ...