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U.S. defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has a bilateral meeting by NATO Secretary Mark Rutte (2. L) Generally Washington, DC, April 24, 2025.
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The fireworks could throw on the summit of NATO this week, the US encourages allies to increase their defense to 5% of their gross domestic products (GDP).
The 5% figure is made up of 3.5% of GDP, which must be a “mere” GDP, attending 12.5% of GDP security related infrastructure, such as cyber war skills and intelligence.
Some Member States comment They are happy to go to that landmark, and some countries are not too far from that brand, others do not meet the 2% threshold agreed a decade ago. While they can commit to increase the expense of defense, it will be a key question to carry out these authorities.
The discussion is cheap and chronology may be blurred, but the concerted action is president of the US and Donald Trump, want to see the first time since 2019 to NATO.
Donald Trump’s President of the USA has arrived at the NATO summit at the Grove Hotel in Watford, northeastern London on December 4, 2019.
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“We are looking for a way to say the US, 5% is real,” Kurt Volker, a former US ambassador and separated the European Policy Analysis Center, said Wednesday.
“It’s worth it, but it is one of the messaging of some of our European allies. Summit.
“And if it is emphasized, you will go to collide with the US,” Volker has added.
High stakes, low hopes
The participation allies meet the Netherlands in the Netherlands, 24-25 June 24, under the war of Ukraine and the Middle East, threatened to destroy the global economy.
Defense analysts say this year this year’s meeting can be in the 77-year history of the Alliance, which reminds them to the U.S. peak.
The US defense secretary was Pete Hegseth emphatic, when he said 5% “will happen” In this month before NATO, many NATO secretaries also plugges many alys with allies.
The German Air Force helicopter is represented at the Pajuostis Airfield in Pajuostis, 6 May 2025, Griffin Lightning 2025 “military exercises.
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Then, arguably the irritation of the boss of the White House with Bloc, the goal of 2% were known only by six Member States, but the US times changed; 2024. For the year, 23 members arrived at the 2% threshold, According to NATO data.
Some of them exceeded this goal, including Poland, Estonia, USA, Latvia and Greece – Canada, Spain and Italy, have been below the contribution threshold. A member of the Nato has not reached an objective expense of 5% so far, and some are very likely to drag the feet when it reaches this landmark.
Photo taken in the photo of the NATO military exercise in the “Spring spring”, Monday, 2025, Monday.
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The UK, Poland and Germany said they plan to increase the expense of defense to the required target, but their timeline is not clear. The UK also tries to raise expenditure between three years, According to the newspaper I. CNBC arrived at Comments.
It is seen that Spain and Italy are important storms against the target of 5%, After committing to reaching the threshold of 2% in 2025. Canada spent 1.3% of GDP in defense in 2024, NATO suggestsLess than Italy, Portugal or Montenegro.
Spending 5% in defense is a goal, but not, Jason Israel, a senior initiative of the CEPA technological defense, said Wednesday.
“Each country … he is trying to figure out how that needle capable of commitment, when each nation does not distinguish, in fact, when the defense is increased most.
Europe must commit to
The European aerospace and defense company follow comments and commitments of NATO, but it is said that they are stuck in the limba between educations and action.
Leonardo, Embrader and Saab, CNBC said the continent last week must play a crucial and collective way to scale long-term commitments to defense expenses and investment capacity and manufacturing skills.
“If we go to 3.5% of NATO (pure defense expenditure), a part of NATO is 3.5%, and more will be required in terms of ability.
“We can do more, and I think we need to join Europe to create more scales, align the scale, align the requirements, so we can be really competitive. So there are many, he said.
Roberto Cingolani Director General of the Italian Leonardo Defense, who agreed to “do a lot of work.”
“Leonardo has the ability to promote the ability. It is not only money, it is a priority. It is a priority. It is a reduction in partition of European countries,” CNBC said Charlotte Reed at the Air Show of CNBC Charlotte said.
Defense companies needed to know what they expect before, Cingolani said, seeing the complex nature of the global supply chains under the defense industry.
“We have approximately 5000 companies in supply chain, and we are in 160 countries in the world. So it’s very complicated,” he noted. “You need to invest in supply chains. You need to protect the supply chain. But we also need to deal with the lack of raw materials … There is only one solution. If a solution, we would already say,” he said.
