The president has long pressed European allies to pay more for their own security. So they may redefine what qualifies as ...

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

Over the course of just a few days, he visited three key Persian Gulf states—Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates ...

Greece itself spent nearly 3.1% of its GDP on defense last year, NATO estimates. Athens has been consistently exceeding the 2 ...

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio urged his Spanish counterpart, Jose Manuel Albares, during a meeting in Washington to ...

NATO foreign ministers are debating a U.S. demand for a big increase in defense spending, President Donald Trump's administration wants to focus on security challenges outside of Europe ...

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

The debate on defense spending is heating up before the summit of President Donald Trump and his NATO counterparts in the Netherlands on June 24-25. That gathering will set the course for future ...

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 President Donald Trump.

diplomats say Rutte has proposed a 0.2 percentage point annual increase on the direct military spending. For some countries -- such as Poland and the Baltics on NATO's eastern flank -- the new 3 ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz declared that “the security of our Baltic allies is also our security” as he traveled to ...

But the reality is that not all of that may need to be new spending. - What's the real increase? The current minimum agreed by NATO's countries for defence spending is two percent of GDP.