Rutte: NATO spending target will be ‘considerably more than 3 percent’
2025-02-15 21:12:27 source：Politico
February 15, 2025
MUNICH — NATO members will have to boost their defense spending by “considerably more than 3 percent” of GDP, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said Saturday during an interview at the POLITICO Pub on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference.
U.S. President Donald Trump has demanded that allies commit 5 percent of their GDP to defense, a dramatic ramp-up on the 2 percent the defense alliance agreed on over a decade ago but that is now seen as too low to deal with the threat posed by Russia and the need to rearm while also sending weapons to Ukraine.
The future target should be agreed at NATO leaders' summit in June in The Hague.
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