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Government Sees "Arbitrary" Raise Military Spending to 5% but Avoids Discarding Further Increases Before NATO Summit
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The MPs adopted a resolution that envisages raising defense spending to three percent of GDP. But NATO is increasingly calling on its allies to allocate as much as five percent of their GDP to defense. For Slovenia, this would mean more than three billion euros, or about a fifth of this year's state budget. "Many of our warehouses are empty," said the Slovenian ambassador to NATO, assessing the situation in NATO allies, emphasizing that this giv…
On the eve of the NATO summit at the end of the month, the geopolitical order breaks down at dizzying pace and the government has stepped on the accelerator to show that it is committed to strengthening the military muscle demanded by some allies. The central executive has authorized extensions of the defence-related budget by at least €7 billion so far in 2025, through agreements reached in the Council of Ministers to transfer credits and use t…
The summit to be held by NATO in two weeks' time, which will have the participation of all the allies, threatens to generate a new problem of first order to a government that is already surplus of them, since the Atlantic Alliance has made it clear that its intention is to ask for an increase of the investment in defense to the member countries in order to reach 5% of the GDP of each State. Spain considers this exaggerated and "arbitrary" figure…
Two weeks before the NATO summit, SPD leader Matthias Miersch fundamentally questioned an increase in the percentage target for defence spending. "An abstract debate on percentages does not help - not least because NATO member states define defence spending very differently," said Miersch to the Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland (RND). {/mprestriction} "It is important to establish defence capacity and make Europe more independent in this area. So …
It is likely that NATO members will accept the decision to allocate five percent of GDP to defense at the summit in The Hague, of which 1.5 percent would be for the construction of dual-use infrastructure, Prime Minister Andrej Plenković said in Prague on Thursday, adding that Croatia wants to achieve three percent by 2030.
The United States has expressly asked Spain to strengthen its military investment and accelerate the modernization of its capabilities, in line with the shared objectives of deterrence and collective defense.In the Executive, the line marked by the Ministry of Defense defends the increase of spending as a strategic priority linked to the strengthening of technological sovereignty and the fulfilment of international commitments.
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