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Trump's 5% NATO Spend Target 'Very, Very Difficult' to Meet, Greek PM Says
- Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis stated on May 22, 2025, that meeting President Trump's 5% NATO defense spending target is very difficult for alliance members.
- This skepticism follows long-standing NATO requirements for members to spend at least 2% of GDP on defense, a threshold many countries still struggle to meet.
- Mitsotakis highlighted that Greece allocated close to 3.1% of its GDP to defense expenditures last year amid ongoing tensions with Turkey, while discussions continue in Europe about relaxing fiscal rules to facilitate increased defense budgets.
- He said, "5% frankly, is very, very difficult," and suggested 3.5% might be an acceptable ceiling for hard defense spending, excluding broader security costs.
- These comments indicate NATO members face challenges raising defense budgets substantially, implying that Trump's 5% goal may remain a long-term target rather than immediate policy.
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Belgium’s Defense Deficit: Why 2% Can’t Wait Until 2029
By Ellyn Chatham & Wilson Beaver, The Daily Signal | May 22, 2025 With June’s NATO summit likely to call for substantial increases in member defense spending, increased scrutiny awaits those NATO members that still haven’t reached even the 2% spending minimum—a minimum that’s been required for well over a decade. One of the more notorious NATO free riders is Belgium, which has skated by while spending only 1.3% of gross domestic product—the meas…
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