– I assume that [podczas szczytu NATO] In Hague, we will agree a higher destination for defense, amounting to a total of 5 percent. [PKB] Rutte said during the Question and Answers session in the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in the United States.
According to Rutte, more and more leaders support a new goal, which is a significant increase in relation to the current alliance goal, of at least 2 percent. GDP. The Dutch prime minister Dick Schoof said at the beginning of this month that Rutte wrote to NATO leaders calling them to achieve 3.5 percent in the next seven years. GDP for “hard military expenses” and 1.5 percent GDP for “related expenses, such as infrastructure, cyber security and others”.
Rutte did not specify the exact division of the target 5 percent. But he said that the basis of the so -called Hard military expenses will be “well above 3 percent”, and additional funds are to be allocated to support infrastructure and logistics.
The latest NATO data shows that 23 out of 32 members of the Alliance are on the right track to reach the goal of at least 2 percent. GDP until the summer of this year – this is a significant increase compared to only three countries that gave so much at the time of setting the goal in 2014, after the start of Russia's aggression to Ukraine. However, none of them reached a level of 5 percent. Poland is leading with a result of about 4.7 percent. GDP, and Lithuania and Latvia announced plans to achieve or exceed 5 percent. in the next two years.
