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 ...

Donald Trump’s hardline stance on NATO and the war in Ukraine have pushed European nations to significantly increase their ...

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 ...

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

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.

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

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has traveled to NATO partner Lithuania to inaugurate a German brigade meant to protect the ...

NATO foreign ministers are debating a US proposal to increase defense spending to 5% of GDP amid growing concerns over Russia and China. Secretary-General Mark Rutte emphasized the need for ...

As NATO prepares for its pivotal summit in The Hague on June 24-25, 2025, Secretary-General Mark Rutte faces a defining ...

If we take into account only the 23 EU member states that are also members of NATO, defence expenditure ... This corresponds to 88.2% of defence investments and to a year-on-year increase of more than ...