Placing the foundation in Brussels for NATO leaders to discuss the goal of defense spending by 5 %

The defense ministers of NATO fell towards US President Donald Trump’s demands for members of the Western Military Alliance to invest five percent of their local product in James and the relevant defense infrastructure.

The ministers, who gather in Brussels on Thursday, agreed to what the allies call a “ambitious” group of goals, which they believe will lead to a “stronger, more and more deadly alliance” will be ready to fight if necessary.

How to finance these goals will be the subject of discussion when NATO leaders meet in The Hague, in the Netherlands, at the end of the month.

At the Funding Complacement Center, an invitation to allies to spend five percent of GDP on defense-3.5 percent on basic military capabilities and 1.5 percent of GDP on defense and security investments, including infrastructure and individual national flexibility.

Canada was far from those criteria, according to the annual report of NATO, which was released in late April.

It indicates that the federal government spent 1.3 percent of GDP of defense in 2023, and estimated that this could increase to 1.45 percent in 2024.

Going to the defense ministers meeting on Thursday, the newly appointed Minister of Defense David McGilli was asked whether Canada intends to meet the new goal.

“Canada reconsidates all its expenses at the present time, from top to bottom,” McGoynt told reporters. He referred to the latter, planned Investment of $ 6 billion in partnership with Australia To build a radar system above the horizon to monitor the Arctic in Canada.

Canada, under former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, has faced continuous criticism from the allies for not meeting the current percentage of the current GDP goals. The backbone room exploded at the leaders of leaders last year in Washington, where members of the US Congress publicly called Canada to its weight – a scene that prompted the liberal government to the promise of the goal by 2032.

McGuinty will not adhere to the chronological framework to meet the revised standard, but he said that Prime Minister Mark Carney will address defensive spending in Canada at the next summit.

“The realistic schedule is now working on the top of the actual leaders in the Netherlands,” he said. “Our Prime Minister will be there and make ads in this regard. Stay tuned.”

The US Defense Secretary, Beit Higseth, said on Thursday that he believed almost all allies were on board with the idea of ​​achieving the goal of GDP by five percent in the next decade.

“He very encouraged me what we heard there,” Higseth told reporters during the availability of the media.

Mark Root, Secretary -General, has pushed for the revised goals in what is seen as an attempt to clarify Trump, but there was uncertainty about when the Allies are expected to achieve the goal.

Media reports indicate that NATO president expects members to reach the new goal by 2032. Poland is currently the only NATO country that exceeds the goal of NATO by 3.5 percent for fixed military spending at 4.32 percent of GDP, according to NATO numbers.

The United States, with the largest defense budget in the world, spends 3.4 percent of its gross domestic product on the army.