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Defence spending by NATO's European members and Canada was 20% higher in 2024 than the previous year, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said on Friday, ahead of a meeting in which they are likely ...
Pointing to Poland, which plans to spend 4.7% of GDP on defence this year, as a model ally, Hegseth doubled down on Washington's demands that European NATO allies take on more of the financial ...
Defence secretary John Healey has warned that the west is facing “a decade or more of growing aggression” Vladimir Putin’s Russia as Labour seeks to drawn Britain closer into EU defence ...
KYIV (Reuters) -Ukrainian Defence Minister Rustem Umerov said the timely delivery of weapons and joint projects with European partners were on the agenda of the Ukraine Defence Contact Group that ...
The share of total expenditure, the average defence spending was 2.5 % in 2021 in the EU and 2.4% in the euro area. As a share of GDP the average was 1.3% in the EU and in the euro area. [1] Total defence expenditure of the European Defence Agency (EDA) Member States was €279 billion in 2023, which was 1.6% of the 27 EDA Member States’ GDP. [2]
The European Sky Shield Initiative (ESSI) is a project to build a ground-based integrated European air defence system which includes anti-ballistic missile capability. [1] As of 2025, [update] 23 European states participate in the initiative.
The European Defence Industrial Strategy (EDIS) is a document released on 5 March 2024 by the von Der Leyen Commission, [1] which suggested to switch to "war economy mode" due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and fears over Donald Trump's rumoured withdrawal from NATO. [2]
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