While Canada’s spending on defence is less than 2 per cent, no NATO member spends as much as what Trump is requesting ...

After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, many of the countries were more willing to pay for their own defense. The transatlantic alliance reached a milestone in 2024 when all non-U.S. NATO ...

During his first term as US president, Trump persuaded many Nato members to increase defence spending. In 2018 he said that all countries in the alliance should be committing 4% of GDP.

NATO has increasingly found itself in the spotlight since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, with new countries seeking membership and former U.S. President Donald Trump, once again a ...

Trump has called on NATO countries to significantly increase their defense budgets, warning that member states should meet a minimum threshold of 5 percent of GDP, up from the existing 2 percent ...