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NATO agrees to higher defence spending goal, Spain says it is opting out
NATO members agreed to a big increase in their defence spending target to 5% of gross domestic product, as demanded by ...
Spain’s leader sticks by decision to break with NATO spending goal despite Trump tariff threats
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is sticking by his decision to break with NATO allies this week from spending more on ...
Why Spain is the only country to reject Nato’s 5% defence target
Spain has refused to endorse Nato’s new five per cent GDP defence spending target, citing economic strain and social welfare ...
Spain reaches deal with NATO ahead of summit to be excluded from 5% defense spending goal
Spain reached a deal with NATO to be excluded from a 5% of GDP defense spending target, days before the military alliance's ...
Spain expects no repercussions from not meeting NATO 5% spending target
Spain said on Wednesday it did not expect any repercussions from its decision not to meet a defence spending target of 5% of ...
Trump hails pledges by NATO allies to boost military spending, criticizes Spain
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Debt, taxes or cuts: NATO’s 5 percent solution
NATO member defense spending commitments are overdue, writes Bruce Stokes of the German Marshall Fund. But how plausible are ...
Trump: I’ll make Spain pay for Nato spending snub
Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he would make Spain “pay twice as much” in trade tariffs after it refused to honour a ...
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Netherlands dispatch: Spain rejects NATO’s 5% defense spending guideline, reaffirming legal sovereignty and exposing cracks in alliance cohesion
On Wednesday, at the NATO summit in The Hague, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez formally rejected the alliance’s newly ...
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All NATO States Agree to Spend 5 Percent of GDP on Defense, But Not Spain
In a joint announcement, NATO members agreed to meet the five percent commitment by 2035, with 3.5 percent of their ...
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Spain agrees with NATO to skip 5% defence spending target
MADRID (Reuters) -Spain agreed with the NATO military alliance to be excluded from spending 5% of its gross domestic product on defence, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Sunday. "A 5% spending ...
Spain’s leader sticks by decision to break with NATO on spending despite Trump tariff threats
President Trump criticized Spain, saying the country wanted “a little bit of a free ride,” and that it would “have to pay it ...