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Germany backs Trump’s push for 5% NATO defense spending target
- On May 15, 2025, during a NATO foreign ministers meeting in Turkey, Germany expressed its support for U.S. President Trump's proposal that member countries allocate 5% of their GDP toward defense funding.
- The push for increased military budgets arises from concerns about alliance readiness and past underfunding, with discussions ongoing about raising the target above the long-standing 2% benchmark.
- At a NATO meeting, Germany indicated its willingness to comply with the U.S. Request for increased defense spending, while Chancellor Friedrich Merz committed to a substantial enhancement of the country's military capabilities.
- Wadephul affirmed that Germany will align with the U.S. Position by aiming to meet the 5% target advocated by President Donald Trump.
- This endorsement signals mounting pressure on NATO members to increase defense investments despite challenges, which could reshape alliance burden-sharing ahead of the June summit in The Hague.
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European defense stocks are flying again as Germany backs 5% NATO spending target
Is that tactic or over zeal? German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul has caused amazement in the Berlin government district with a marked announcement of armaments on a foreign date. Now nobody wants to have known about it ... Germany wants to spend five percent of its gross domestic product for defense in the future. Rumms! That would currently be more than 200 billion euros. An enormous sum that blows up everything that has happened. The annou…
NATO countries now appear on the path to an "ambitious" increase in their military and security spending, demanded with insistence by Donald Trump and to which Berlin and Paris have joined.
The new Federal Foreign Minister Wadephul supports the Trump demand for a military budget of five percent of GDP. The rates of defence companies are increasing accordingly.
Surprise defense spending pledge splits German coalition
BERLIN — German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul’s unexpected support for a dramatic increase in defense spending to 5 percent of GDP is dividing the country’s ruling coalition. The target represents a steep increase from the 2 percent of GDP that Germany now spends and is in line with demands from U.S. President Donald Trump. NATO’s current target, set in 2014, is for members to spend at least 2 percent of GDP on defense, but that is likely to …
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