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Spain’s top diplomat dismissed a suggestion that the nation’s failure to commit to a revised NATO spending target was the ...
Key Points and Summary – Spain has officially rejected the American F-35, opting instead to invest in European platforms like ...
By all accounts, the 2025 NATO Summit, held from June 24–26 in The Hague and hosted by the Netherlands, was a huge success. President Donald Trump’s pressure on NATO allies to spend more on defense, ...
Spain has indefinitely shelved its plans to buy the US-made F-35 fighter jets, dealing a blow to Lockheed Martin and ...
Spain was NATO's lowest spender last year, according to the alliance's estimates, spending around 1.28% of its GDP on defense expenditure.
In the Trump-brokered agreement for NATO to increase its defense spending, 'defense-related' projects take on a new ...
But for Spain, which currently spends just under 1.3% of GDP on defence (the lowest in the NATO alliance), the leap to 5% is not only financially untenable, but also politically toxic.
President Trump on Wednesday laid into Spain for expressing reservations about an increase in NATO defense spending, drawing his ire during his press conference at the alliance’s summit on Wednesday.
The principal decision to which Rutte was referring was the agreement among ‘allies’ to commit to defence spending of at ...
"NATO is going to have to deal with Spain," he told reporters on Friday, calling the country "notorious" for spending less on defence than other alliance members. 'Flexibility' Stay informed.
NATO members have agreed to a new defense spending goal of 5% of each country’s economic output by 2035, more than doubling the previous figure of 2%. It's an ambitious timeline that includes ...
Spain was NATO's lowest spender last year, according to the alliance's estimates, spending around 1.28% of its GDP on defense expenditure.