Spain’s refusal comes against a backdrop of growing EU-US tensions, with Trump wielding tariff threats to make NATO members fall in line. Following June’s NATO summit, he said “We’re ...

Earlier on Sunday, diplomats said NATO’s 32 member states had agreed on a summit statement setting a 5% of GDP target for annual defense and security spending by 2035, despite Spain’s objections.

President Donald Trump recently secured a historic victory at the NATO summit, as all but one alliance member committed to ...

NATO is absolutely convinced that Spain will have to spend 3.5% to get there,” Rutte added. Sanchez’s antics threatened to derail the summit.

When I joined the House of Commons Clerk’s Department 20 years ago, there was a helpful list of formerly common phrases which ...

In the Trump-brokered agreement for NATO to increase its defense spending, 'defense-related' projects take on a new ...

Prior to the Summit, Estonia and Poland had already planned to do so, which demonstrates their strong support of our alliance (for reference, the U.S. spent 3.38%, Estonia 3.43%, and Poland 4.12% ...

Unlike Spain, which openly said it could not go much above the old NATO target of 2% of national output, at a summit last week Italy toed the line imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump ...

Prior to the Summit, Estonia and Poland had already planned to do so, which demonstrates their strong support of our alliance (for reference, the U.S. spent 3.38%, Estonia 3.43%, and Poland 4.12% ...