Mark Rutte, NATO Secretary General, emphasized on Wednesday after the NATO summit that all alliance countries have already reached a 2 % threshold. GDP for defense, or They will do it this year.
NATO estimates and Atlantic Council information indicate that this is not entirely precise information because there are exceptions. This year Portugal will spend only 1.5 percent GDP, and Türkiye – 1.8 percent, going down below the 2 % threshold, which was achieved last year.
Baltic countries (Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia), which were already planning to exceed 5 percent, will not have a problem with this. GDP in the coming years, and Estonia and Latvia already exceed 3 percent. Poland is enough for it to maintain the current level of spending, although it will not be easy, because our 4.7 percent. This year, GDP is paid by a powerful increase in debt.
Mark Rutte also stated that it can be safely assumed that the United States has already “more or less” achieved the purpose of defense expenditure at 5 percent. Here he was even more wrong than when information that everyone would pay 2 percent this year. GDP.
NATO estimates speak of 3.38 percent GDP issued for defense by the USA last year with growth plans to 3.61 percent GDP in 2026. At least, they say NATO data and plans monitored by the Atlantic Council. To the threshold of 5 percent It is still very far here.
