Despite U.S. Push, Most NATO Allies Fail to Fulfill Military-Spending Goals
Even as European military outlays rise, the majority of allies won’t meet 2%-of-GDP benchmark, officials say
BRUSSELS—Fewer than half of NATO’s 29 members have made plans to reach the alliance’s military-spending target, according to allied officials.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is expected to announce Tuesday that European military spending continues to rise. But the overall increase obscures the reality that many allies haven’t adopted plans, as they agreed to do last year at the insistence of the U.S., to increase such spending to the long-established alliance benchmark of 2% of their economic output.
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