Germany backs Trump’s push for 5% NATO defense spending target

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Germany backs Trump’s push for 5% NATO defense spending target

Johann Wadephul (CDU), Federal Foreign Minister, makes a statement during an informal meeting of NATO foreign ministers.

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Germany is backing U.S. President Donald Trump’s call to increase the defense spending target of NATO members to 5% of their individual gross domestic product, ******* Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul said Thursday.

When asked about NATO chief Mark Rutte’s reported

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that members of the alliance should increase defense spending to 3.5% of GDP while committing an additional 1.5% to wider security-related matters, Wadephul said he believed this suggestion had been coordinated — including with the U.S. — and that it would be discussed at the ongoing NATO foreign ministers meeting.

“But one should look at the result. And the result is indeed the 5% demanded by President Trump, that he believes are necessary, and we are following him in this respect,” Wadephul said on the sidelines of the meeting in Turkey, according to a CNBC translation.

Trump has long demanded higher defense expenses from NATO members, some of which have so far even been failing to meet the existing 2% target.

Wadephul also met with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on the sidelines of the Thursday event. In a

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on social media platform X, Wadephul said their conversation “was a great start, especially at a time when so much is at stake in foreign affairs.”

This developing story is being updated.

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