The Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania all have conscription, as do several of the Nordic countries, as well as Turkey and Greece.

Defence equipment procurement In 2023, more than 80% of defence investments, some €61 billion, were allocated to the procurement of new defence products. The growing trend was confirmed in 2024, when ...

NATO members have agreed to a new defense spending goal of 5% of each country’s economic output by 2035, more than doubling the previous figure of 2%. It’s an ambitious timeline that ...

Audra Plepytė reflected on her experience as ambassador and stressed Trump's cooperation with the Baltic States in her final ...

SINTRA, Portugal — The European Union should continue to issue joint debt to finance the revival of armed forces across the bloc, the head of Lithuania’s central bank said in an interview.

Trump's NATO success pushes allies to pledge 5% GDP on defense, marking the biggest jump since 1949, but requires faster U.S.

The Senate on Tuesday narrowly pushed through a massive tax cut and spending bill advancing President Donald Trump’s domestic ...

Discover exactly how NATO spending works and what exactly nations are spending their budgets on around the world ...

A look at where defense spending stands among NATO: Measured as a portion of GDP, Poland is NATO’s biggest military spender ...

Following years of criticizing NATO as a "rip-off," President Trump now endorses the alliance as member countries agree to ...

A new Trump presidency and the Ukraine war have pushed Germany to change its constitution to spend more on its military.

With Sweden and Finland now under NATO’s formal umbrella, this regional grouping has emerged not as a quiet coalition, but as ...