MADRID - Madrid is not bowing to pressure from US President Donald Trump to raise the Iberian country's defence spending to 5 ...

NATO's own figures, quoted by broadcaster Al Jazeera, show that in 2024, by percentage of GDP, the biggest spending members ...

In the case of Spain, which spent just 1.28 percent on defence in 2024, its capital Madrid lies 3,450 kilometres from Moscow.

MADRID--NATO leaders were sitting down Wednesday to try to turn an urgent sense of purpose triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine into action--and to patch up any cracks in their unity over ...

SPAIN has refused to increase its military spending – the lowest in NATO – to maintain a defence budget of just 1.32% of GDP ...

NATO is testing its ability to rapidly deploy across eastern Europe — without direct U.S. assistance — as Washington shifts its approach toward European defense and the war in Ukraine. The six ...

to say that Spain is not a reliable partner for NATO or the European Union, and that this was causing "extreme weakness" in relations between Madrid and Washington. "I would return to reliability ...

While NATO countries living near the Russian border pay well over two percent of their GDP on defense, those further away pay ...