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Canada officially hits NATO 2% GDP target
Canada met NATO's 2% GDP defence spending target in 2025 as NATO allies increased defence budgets by 20%, with the alliance spending 2.77% of GDP overall, NATO reported.
- On Thursday, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte published his annual report, highlighting that European allies and Canada increased defense spending by 20% in 2025 compared to the previous year.
- In his report, Rutte noted that all allies met or exceeded the 2% defense spending target first set in 2014, with the alliance spending 2.77% of GDP on defense in 2025.
- Poland, Lithuania, and Latvia already exceeded the new 3.5% core defense target, while Spain, Canada, and Belgium remained at 2% last year.
- President Donald Trump recently assailed allies over their lack of support for the war against Iran, calling them "cowards" and writing that "without the U.S.A., NATO IS A PAPER TIGER!"
- At the next NATO Summit in Ankara, allies must demonstrate a clear path toward the 5% defense spending objective by 2035, Rutte said.
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Leaning Left21Leaning Right2Center8Last UpdatedBias Distribution68% Left
Bias Distribution
- 68% of the sources lean Left
68% Left
L 68%
C 26%
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