Nato members are set to agree a new 5% defence and national security spending target, up from current levels.

At the moment, Poland is the NATO member state spending the most per GDP on defense investments, according to the latest data ...

Instead of disbanding, NATO grew from its original 12 members to 32. In keeping with its founding ideology, it requires applicants to practice liberal democracy and market economy and contribute ...

The original 12 founding members of the political and military alliance are: the United States, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands ...

Only six member nations met the 2% goal in 2021, but this year, NATO expects a record 23 of 32 member nations to hit the Western military alliance's spending goals, according to data released over ...

Since NATO set its defense spending targets in 2014, overall average spending among member states, excluding the United States, has risen from 1.4% of GDP to 2% in 2024.

In 2014, NATO members committed to spending 2% of their Gross Domestic Product or economic output in the wake of Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea region. The U.S. contributes 3.4% of ...

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Thursday that all NATO members will have agreed on a goal of spending the equivalent to 5% of GDP on defense over the next decade by the 2025 NATO ...

NATO members are set to agree to a goal to increase their defense spending level to 5% of their GDP as a means to address a long-held grievance by President Donald Trump.

Notably, no NATO member has cut defense spending more since 2021 than Greece — a country that reported a nearly 7%, or $570 million, reduction in its military budget.

In 2008, NATO agreed that both Ukraine and Georgia “will become members of NATO” but did not specify a date or a path. Mr. Biden and some other leaders did not regard Ukraine as ready for ...