Under the new plan, London wants to spend a cumulative extra of £75 billion ($93 billion) over the next six years, culminating in a 2030 annual defense budget of £87 billion ($108 billion), which would make it second in NATO only to the US in defense expenditure.
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Media reports also said this week NATO would discuss taking over a leadership role in providing weapons to Ukraine from the current US-led Ukraine Defense Contact Group.
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Poland, in particular, led the way in defense expenditure in 2023, using nearly 4 percent of its GDP on an arms spending spree, according to the alliance’s annual report.
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With the Hungarian vote, all NATO members have supported Sweden’s bid, clearing the way for Stockholm to join the alliance.
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As Sweden moves ever closer to joining NATO, both it and the alliance are reserving judgment on who or what caused damage to a telecommunications cable that runs between Sweden and Estonia, until an investigation concludes.
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In a social media post today, Shapps said he was “looking forward to working with the brave men and women of our Armed Forces” and “continuing the UK’s support for Ukraine in their fight against Putin’s barbaric invasion.”
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While the agreement comes with a number of gifts to Ukraine, including the promise to waive standard requirements for NATO membership in the future, it falls well short of the goal set by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that NATO members lay out a clear path forward for his country to join the alliance.
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While far from the official last step for Sweden’s NATO membership, the transmission of Sweden’s Accession Protocol to the Turkish Grand National Assembly all but removes any doubt that the northern European nation will become the alliance’s 32nd member.
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“I am confident that we’ll find a united way to address the specific issue on [Ukraine] membership, but I will not go into the details of exact language now because that is something we will announce [at the Summit],” said Jens Stoltenberg, NATO Secretary General.
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Jens Stoltenberg, NATO secretary general, said after a meeting today that “unsolved issues” remain, all but ending the prospect of NATO expanding to 32 members at the alliance’s Heads of State Summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, next week.
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It is the third time the former Norwegian prime minister has had his mandate extended since taking on the secretary general position in 2014.
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The signed agreement may be bittersweet for Finnish prime minister Sanna Marin, who championed the NATO membership but on Sunday saw her party defeated in a general election that will cost her the prime minister’s chair.
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Despite the concerning finding, between 2021 and 2022, defense spending across the alliance increased by 2.2 percent in real terms, surpassing an estimated $1 trillion.
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“It is essential that we do everything in our power to remain at the forefront of innovation and technology,” NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said.
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