Dilan Yeşilgöz, leader of the Dutch center-right VVD party, has publicly backed a proposal to raise NATO’s defense spending ...

NATO set to commit to five percent defense spending goal amid threats from Trump - ‘I assume that in The Hague we will agree ...

Dutch PM Dick Schoof said earlier this month that Rutte had written to NATO leaders calling for them to reach 3.5 percent of ...

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

NATO member countries will agree to a steep new defence-spending target of 5 per cent of annual economic output during the ...

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

The alliance's Capability Targets 2025, to be formally set at a summit in June, will significantly increase the requirements ...

But two things could leave the alliance’s secretary general, Mark Rutte, presiding over a more difficult event: President ...

NATO is asking Germany to add seven brigades, totaling around 40,000 troops, to meet new defense targets amid rising threats ...

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

Spain has long been a laggard on defence spending. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez only said this month that Spain would meet Nato’s current 2 per cent spending target this year, as he unveiled a €10bn ...