Across Europe, leaders for years have promised to ramp up defense spending, though progress has been slow. NATO in 2014 set a target that each member dish out 2 percent of its GDP on defense by 2024.

The head of Nato, Mark Rutte, has told BBC News that Nato members will have to spend "considerably more than 3%" of the value of their economies on defence. In an interview with BBC News on 14 ...

NATO members will have to bolster their defense spending by “considerably more than 3%” of their GDP, the alliance’s Secretary General Mark Rutte said Saturday. The alliance chief’s ...

Poland, with over 4% of its GDP spent on defense in 2024 and plans to reach 4.7% in 2025, has long been ahead of the curve in ...

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said European countries in the military alliance have agreed to step up their defense spending in the wake of President Donald Trump’s request that they ...

Upon his return to the White House, Trump said NATO countries should hike defense spending to 5 percent of annual economic output. That’s more than double the Western alliance’s current 2 ...