Trump Pushes for Higher Defense Spending U.S. President Donald Trump has called on NATO allies to increase their defense spending to 5% of their Gross Domestic Product (GDP). His demand is part of his ...

Trump expects Washington's NATO allies to spend more on bombs and bullets, but nations are reluctant to boost spending.

Rutte acknowledged Germany’s contributions since Russia ... During his election campaign, Trump repeatedly urged allies to increase military spending, reinforcing long-standing U.S. demands ...

NATO’s first major exercise this year, "STEADFAST DART", has seen its Allied Response Force (ARF) deploy 10,000 troops with ...

On Monday, just before Ms. Frederiksen set out on her journey, her government announced that it would increase military spending in the ... Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany spoke about Russia ...

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte is calling on Germany to increase its defence spending and arms production. "The Germans have done a lot right since the war began in Ukraine," Rutte told the Sunday ...

Germany met NATO's target to spend 2% of its gross domestic product on defence in 2024, the government said on Monday, though well short of incoming U.S. President Donald Trump's call for as much as 5 ...

Ralf Stegner, a member of Germany's Social Democratic Party, called Trump's comments "delusional and truly insane." Poland has backed Trump's demand.

Hollowing out Germany’s military, she broke her pledge to increase military spending to 2% of gross domestic product by 2024. She opposed sanctions on Iran and, buying into net-zero emissions ...

BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany will hold a snap national election on Feb. 23 following the collapse of Chancellor Olaf Scholz's ...

Ralf Stegner, a member of Germany's Social ... countries are funding higher military spending through debt, cuts in other expenditure areas, and proposals to increase taxes," Nan Tian, a senior ...

Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz has rejected a demand from United States President-elect Donald Trump that members of the NATO military alliance should increase their defense spending to at least ...