Jan 22, 2026
NATO budget
’s common-funded budgets are modest and tightly defined: roughly EUR 4.6 billion in 2025 and up to EUR 5.3 billion in 2026, with the Alliance agreeing a 2026 Civil Budget of EUR 528.2 million and a Mi...
2014 Wales Summit
NATO Heads of State and Government restated the 2% defense spending guideline at the Wales summit in 2014.
Fact-Checks
3 resultsJan 21, 2026
Which NATO countries spend the highest percentage of GDP on defence and how has that changed since 2014?
Since ’s , the countries spending the largest shares of GDP on defence have shifted from a few high outliers to a broader cohort of front-runners: leads at roughly 4.1% of GDP, followed by and at abou...
Jan 8, 2026
What was the original agreed percentage of GDP that NATO countries agreed to spend on the military
The original agreed guideline was that NATO countries should spend 2% of their GDP on defense; that benchmark was first set as a ministerial guideline in 2006 and later reinforced politically at the 2...