Can Trump force the hand of NATO allies to spend up to 5% of GDP on defense?
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Poland: NATO countries won’t hit 5% defense spending target for 10 years
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Europe is divided over Trump's call for NATO members to boost defense spending to 5% of GDP
Defence ministers of five NATO countries hold talks in Warsaw on aid to Ukraine
The meeting of the defence ministers from the EU's largest countries together with the deputy defence minister of Great Britain comes as Poland begins its rotating presidency of the EU and as Europe braces for the unpredictability of a new Donald Trump presidency.
Hundreds of Swedish forces arrive in Latvia in largest deployment with NATO to date
Hundreds of Swedish troops have arrived in Latvia to join a Canadian-led multinational brigade along NATO’s eastern flank
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Pity the Poesy: Mark Rutte, NATO and Spending for War
Now men will go content with what we spoiled. Or, discontent, boil bloody, and be spilled. - Wilfred Owen, “Strange Meeting” (1919)  There have been
The leader of NATO in defense spending has been identified
Although the exact amount that Poland spent on defense in 2024 is not yet fully known, data from the Ministry of National Defense make it possible to draw up a preliminary picture. According to the publication Gazeta.
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NATO announces a new mission to protect undersea cables in the Baltic Sea region
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte says the alliance is launching a new mission to protect undersea cables in the Baltic Sea region
Fico threatens to pull Slovakia out of EU and Nato
Slovakia’s pro-Russian prime minister has raised the prospect of his country leaving the European Union and Nato, arguing that world events could consign them to the “history books”.
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Hundreds of Swedish forces arrive in Latvia in largest deployment with NATO to date
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Defence ministers of five NATO countries hold talks in Warsaw on aid to Ukraine
Related Poland inaugurates EU Council presidency with opening gala Five largest EU countries back joint defence bonds to stop Russia's 'imperial ambitions' Poland is NATO's biggest relative defence spender after Warsaw earmarked 4.7% of its GDP spending on ...
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Hundreds of Swedish forces arrive in Latvia in largest deployment with NATO to date
WARSAW, Poland — Hundreds of Swedish troops arrived in Latvia on Saturday to join a Canadian-led multinational brigade along NATO's eastern flank, a mission Sweden is calling its most ...
At the Poland-Belarus border, security and migration merge into one
Poland has reframed the debate on migration through the lenses of national security, forcing the EU to change its tune. View on euronews
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Trump calls for increase in NATO spending that could drive Pentagon budget beyond $1 trillion
President Donald Trump said NATO countries must sharply increase their defense spending, demanding member states push beyond current benchmarks that many of them already struggle to hit.