US EditionNATO summit opens amid discord over defence spending and Ukraine
SOUTH HOLLAND, NETHERLANDS, JUN 25 – NATO's new target triples current defense spending obligations to address heightened security threats, with 3.5% for military and 1.5% for related measures, officials said.
- NATO leaders, including U.S. President Donald Trump, gathered in The Hague on June 23, 2025, for a two-day summit focused on boosting defence spending and security cooperation.
- The summit follows Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine and intense political pressure from Trump to raise the defence spending target to 5% of GDP, which Spain rejected as unreasonable.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy attended a series of meetings but was excluded from the leaders' main session, reflecting uncertainty amid his country's frozen NATO membership bid.
- NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte emphasized that current times are considerably more perilous and highlighted that European countries contributed the majority—around 60%—of the military assistance received by Ukraine in 2024.
- The summit aimed to secure agreement on the 5% GDP defence spending goal to strengthen collective defence, though divisions remain over financial commitments and NATO’s scope regarding Russia.
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