That could damage the bloc’s economies, which would make it even harder to lift spending on defense. NATO’s secretary ... on a visit to the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, last week, suggested ...

Mr. Starmer pushed leaders to follow Britain in bolstering its military spending. Mark Rutte, the secretary general of NATO, said several ... try to build political capital abroad when the ...

According to Visual Capitalist, which analyzed data from the International Institute of Strategic Studies, the U.S. remains the undisputed leader in defense spending ... particularly in response to ...

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte lauded President Donald Trump’s efforts to push NATO allies to increase defense spending, amid efforts to end the war in Ukraine. Trump has long advocated for ...

WASHINGTON − The new head of NATO and President Donald Trump agree on one thing: European member states should be paying more for their defense. Seated next to Trump in the Oval Office on ...

NATO members will have to bolster their defense spending by “considerably more than 3%” of their GDP, the alliance’s Secretary General Mark Rutte said Saturday. The alliance chief’s ...

Across Europe, leaders for years have promised to ramp up defense spending, though progress has been slow. NATO in 2014 set a target that each member dish out 2 percent of its GDP on defense by 2024.

Polish President Andrzej Duda issued a special letter on Wednesday, asking all leaders of NATO member states to increase defence spending from 2% to at least 3% of GDP. In the letter, seen by ...

The White House said Thursday that it expects all NATO members to be spending at least two per cent of their GDP on defence by the alliance’s next summit — four months from now. The demand ...

President Trump said Thursday that NATO had to remain “strong” — as the military alliance’s top official praised him for sparking a “staggering” boost in military ...