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Carney, NATO allies meeting to debate new defence spending target
- NATO leaders, including Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, are meeting today in The Hague to debate raising the defence spending target to five per cent of GDP by 2035.
- This meeting follows U.S. President Donald Trump's push earlier this year, as he threatened to reconsider U.S. commitments if members do not increase their defence spending.
- Britain, France, Germany, and the Netherlands support the five per cent goal while Spain and Slovakia oppose it, with the increased target including 3.5 per cent for core defence and 1.5 per cent for defence-adjacent investments.
- NATO stated Canada spent $41 billion on defence in 2024, and achieving the new target would raise that to $150 billion by 2035, with progress reviewed in 2029, according to Secretary-General Mark Rutte.
- The decision, described by Rutte as rooted in NATO's core mission, aims to redistribute the defence burden more fairly, as the United States has carried too much of it until now, a change made possible by Trump's pressure.
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