British Foreign Secretary David Lammy stated that the U.K. aims to increase defense spending to 2.5 percent of GDP by 2027.

NATO appears headed for a compromise deal at a summit next month to satisfy US President Donald Trump's demand to spend five ...

NATO foreign ministers are debating a U.S. demand for a big increase in defense spending, President Donald Trump’s ...

The debate on defense spending is heating up ahead of a summit of U.S. President Donald Trump and his NATO counterparts in ...

At talks in Antalya, Turkey, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said that more investment and military equipment are needed to ...

But it will be the internal wrangling over NATO's spending target that dominates the meat of the debate Thursday among foreign ministers with just over six weeks before leaders come face-to-face ...

However, as countries debate spending hikes ... only just meets the 2 percent target thanks to pension spending. Without that outlay, NATO’s fourth-biggest military would only be at 1.7 percent this ...

Pillars one and two have arguably generated the most debate given the scale of spending ... 17 non-US NATO members meet the 2% goal and virtually all meet the associated target of dedicating ...

President Donald Trump is pressuring allies to agree to a new spending target of 5% of GDP when leaders meet in June in The Hague – a level none of NATO’s 32 members currently reaches. Follow our ...

Trump is piling the pressure on Europe and Canada to ratchet up NATO’s spending target at a summit in The Hague next month. Foreign ministers from alliance countries are expected to tackle the matter ...

NATO Secretary ... raise defence spending to 3.5% of their GDP, and a further 1.5% on broader security-related items to meet U.S. President Donald Trump's demand for a 5% target.