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BRUSSELS, Feb 15 (Reuters) – Germany’s defense minister NATOof military has said he favors raising the spending target as allies debate in Brussels on Wednesday whether 2% of GDP defense spending on the war in Ukraine is enough.

At the 2014 Wales summit NATO its leaders agreed to spend at least 2% of their gross domestic product (GDP) on defense over ten years.

NATORussia’s decision Ukraine it was a reaction to the serious deterioration of the security situation in Europe months after the annexation of the Crimean peninsula.

From the promise of Wales approx 10 A year later, and a year after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, NATO defense ministers will begin discussions on aligning spending targets at a meeting in Brussels.

A decision is expected to be made at the NATO summit to be held in Lithuania in July.

German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said when he arrived at the NATO headquarters in Brussels for talks: “I think it will not be enough to move towards the 2% goal, it can only be the basis for further steps.”

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“We are in the process of coordinating our position on this within the government,” he added.

Pistorius echoed NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg’s calls for a 2% target military He emphasized that there is not a ceiling on the costs, but a minimum.

Given that several allied Europeans were at war, military is trying to increase spending, while others, such as Germany, are far from even reaching the 2% target.

Germany’s defense spending was expected to reach around 1.5% in 2022, while France appeared to be close to meeting 2%, according to NATO estimates published last June.

According to these figures, Britain and Poland reaching the goal, however USAIt is among the countries that do not reach the defense expenditure, which is about 3.5% of the GDP.

Reporting by Sabine Siebold, Bart Meijer, Andrew Gray; Edited by Sudip Kar-Gupta and Christian Schmollinger

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2023-02-15 21:09:02
Source – reuters

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