I'm RFE/RL Europe Editor Rikard Jozwiak, and this week I'm drilling down on two issues: The EU finally targeting Russian ...

LISBON - NATO Secretary General ... pledge to meet the 2% goal by 2029. In 2023, Portugal spent 1.5% of its gross domestic product (GDP) on its NATO commitments. "We know that the goal of 2% ...

Rutte emphasized the need for NATO members to exceed the 2% defense spending benchmark during a press briefing with Portuguese Prime Minister Luis Montenegro after arriving in Lisbon, Portugal's ...

Portugal on Monday said it was ready to bring forward its planned increases on defence spending -- among the lowest in NATO -- to meet the defence alliance's two-percent of GDP minimum before 2029.

NATO's Rutte ... Rutte spoke in Lisbon alongside Portuguese Prime Minister Luis Montenegro, who reiterated his country's pledge to meet the 2% goal by 2029. In 2023, Portugal spent 1.5% of its ...

But it was to be the most consequential. NATO, already tracking incidents of suspected cable-cutting, responded. Within three weeks, the alliance had put a coordinated group of warships to sea ...

At just 1.55 percent of its 2024 GDP, Portugal's investment in defence places it close to the bottom of the NATO pile. Lisbon committed at last summer's NATO summit in Washington to reach the two ...

LISBON, Jan 27 (Reuters ... country's pledge to meet the 2% goal by 2029. In 2023, Portugal spent 1.5% of its gross domestic product (GDP) on its NATO commitments. "We know that the goal ...

Macron said Monday, addressing members of the French military. President Trump has often criticized America's NATO allies for failing to meet domestic defense spending targets. At a February 2024 ...

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is convinced that US President Donald Trump can influence the issue of Ukraine's accession to NATO. Source: European Pravda citing Zelenskyy's statement during ...

U.S. President Donald Trump expects Washington's NATO allies to spend more on bombs and bullets. Trump's proposal for members to devote 5 percent of GDP to defense was widely rejected, but the ...

British troops are travelling en masse to continental Europe to participate in major NATO-led drills designed to wargame mass mobilisation, amid threats that Russia could attack allied nations.