Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is sticking by his decision to break with NATO allies this week from spending more on ...

NATO members agreed to a big increase in their defence spending target to 5% of gross domestic product, as demanded by ...

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In a joint announcement, NATO members agreed to meet the five percent commitment by 2035, with 3.5 percent of their ...

On Wednesday, at the NATO summit in The Hague, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez formally rejected the alliance’s newly agreed aspirational guideline for member states to increase defense ...

Trump deemed the summit in The Hague this week a resounding success, while taking aim at Spain's refusal to commit to ...

Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he would make Spain “pay twice as much” in trade tariffs after it refused to honour a ...

Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez says that Spain reached a deal with NATO to be excluded from a 5% of GDP defense spending target. The deal was reached days before the military alliance’s leaders ...

Spain said on Wednesday it did not expect any repercussions from its decision not to meet a defence spending target of 5% of ...

THE HAGUE — Canada used to be NATO’s biggest headache for its chronic defense underspending. Now, at this year’s summit, everybody agrees: Spain’s the problem, with Slovakia coming a close second in ...

NATO is worth paying for. Trump is right that Europe needs to do more. Ahead of a NATO summit, European nations need to take more responsibility for their own defense. June 23, 2025 4 min ...