US President-elect Donald Trump has called on Nato's European members to spend 5% of their national incomes on defence. That is more than double the military alliance's current target of 2%.

Lithuania and Estonia have become the first NATO members to pledge an increase in defense spending to five percent of GDP, according to a report.

Washington finances 15.8% of the 32-member military alliance's yearly expenditure of around $3.5 billion. That is the joint-largest share, alongside Germany's, according to a NATO breakdown for 2024.

BRUSSELS – Nato has started a process to share some of its highly classified capability targets – which determine what kind of weapons and equipment member countries need to produce – with ...

A close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin has stated that Moscow needs a land corridor through NATO-member countries, intensifying the already fraught relationship between Russia and the West.

Approval of U.S. leadership across NATO member countries was lower in 2024 than during the first three years of President Biden’s term in office, according to a Gallup poll released Monday.

Still two weeks away from taking office, Donald Trump has begun outlining an aggressive foreign policy with little regard to diplomatic considerations or the concerns of US allies. President-elect ...

Donald Trump on Tuesday pushed NATO members to boost their defense spending to five percent of GDP, underlining his long-standing claims that they are underpaying for US protection. "They can all ...

(MENAFN) NATO's new secretary-general, Mark Rutte, has warned European members that they must either significantly increase military spending or start learning Russian. Speaking at a European ...

“The American people are the ones that are paying for the defence. “You cannot ask the American people to expand the umbrella of Nato when the current members aren’t paying their fair share – and that ...

Trump called for NATO members to raise defense spending to 5% of GDP. Many European NATO members have struggled to meet the current 2% defense spending goal. Donald Trump's suggestion that NATO ...

telling reporters the US was protecting Nato members, but they were “not protecting us”. Mr Trump earlier demanded that other members of the transatlantic alliance spend 5 per cent of their ...