Dutch Cabinet Approves NATO’s 5% Defense Spending Target

De Telegraaf

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The Telegraaf survey on the fall of the cabinet shows that the Dutch are most concerned about healthcare, the housing market and the threat of war.

NRC Handelsblad

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3.5 percent should go to defense, 1.5 percent is intended to increase civilian resilience, such as infrastructure. NATO chief Mark Rutte Rutte wants NATO countries to have reached 5 percent by 2032.

espreso.tv

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He wrote about it on social network X.” The Dutch government supports NATO's new target of allocating 3.5 percent of GDP to defense and 1.5 percent to defense-related spending,” the statement said. The defense minister noted that such changes are necessary to ensure the security of the Netherlands and its allies in view of the growing threats. He stressed that increased defense spending would help strengthen the Netherlands' armed forces and “ta…

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Increasing defense spending is possible at the cost of cutting "insane spending on decarbonization." This is the main narrative of the ODS, led by Finance Minister Zbyněk Stanjura (ODS). The NATO summit at the end of June will discuss increasing defense spending from the current two to five percent of GDP, which represents roughly a quarter of a trillion crowns more than at present. Stanjura's predecessor, Alena Schillerová (ANO), told Echu that…