{"id":50199,"date":"2025-06-22T16:54:51","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T20:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/spain-says-it-has-not-committed-to-meeting-natos-new-5-target\/22\/06\/2025\/"},"modified":"2025-06-22T16:54:51","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T20:54:51","slug":"spain-says-it-has-not-committed-to-meeting-natos-new-5-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/spain-says-it-has-not-committed-to-meeting-natos-new-5-target\/22\/06\/2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain says it has not committed to meeting NATO&#8217;s new 5% target"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"relative mb-6 aisummary_shadowPulse__HDPrM\">\n<div class=\"box-content rounded-[14px] bg-gradient-to-b from-[#c938e3] to-[#4941fb] p-0.5\" style=\"max-height:5rem\">\n<div class=\"rounded-xl bg-[#fcfbfb] dark:bg-inkwell px-5\">\n<div class=\"relative flex justify-between py-5 text-base font-semibold\">\n<div class=\"flex items-center\"><button aria-label=\"Visually show the key takeways description\" class=\"group z-2\" data-ylk=\"elm:card;itc:1;sec:ai-summary;slk:key-takeaways;\"><span class=\"group relative text-left transition-all duration-1000 ease-in-out\"><svg class=\"absolute size-0\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\"><lineargradient id=\"svg-ai-icon-gradient\" x1=\"12.5\" x2=\"12.5\" y1=\"2.5\" y2=\"21.5\" gradientunits=\"userSpaceOnUse\"><stop stop-color=\"#3941FD\"\/><stop offset=\"1\" stop-color=\"#D136E0\"\/><\/lineargradient><\/svg><svg viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"mr-1\" fill=\"url(#svg-ai-icon-gradient)\" height=\"24\" width=\"24\"><path fill-rule=\"evenodd\" d=\"M21.5 6.5a6.77 6.77 0 0 1-4-4 6.77 6.77 0 0 1-4 4 6.77 6.77 0 0 1 4 4 6.77 6.77 0 0 1 4-4M3.5 14A12.69 12.69 0 0 0 11 6.5a12.69 12.69 0 0 0 7.5 7.5 12.69 12.69 0 0 0-7.5 7.5A12.7 12.7 0 0 0 3.5 14m7.5 3.638A14.5 14.5 0 0 0 7.362 14 14.5 14.5 0 0 0 11 10.362 14.5 14.5 0 0 0 14.638 14 14.5 14.5 0 0 0 11 17.638\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\"\/><\/svg><span class=\"sr-only !absolute !w-[310px] max-w-[80vw] translate-y-full rounded-lg bg-white text-sm font-normal opacity-0 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity ease-in-out group-hover:not-sr-only group-hover:block group-hover:p-4 group-hover:opacity-100 group-hover:delay-300 group-focus-visible:not-sr-only group-focus-visible:block group-focus-visible:p-4 group-focus-visible:opacity-100 dark:border dark:border-charcoal dark:bg-inkwell dark:shadow-dark-elevation-3\" id=\"\u00abR1b6kkr8lb2m7nfblb\u00bb\" style=\"bottom:-2px\">Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. 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Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience.<\/span><\/span><\/button><span class=\"aisummary_textShimmer__8Tdxq\">Generate Key Takeaways<\/span><\/div>\n<p><button aria-label=\"Expand Key Takeaways\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"\u00abR6kkr8lb2m7nfblbH1\u00bb\" class=\"stretched-box text-batcave hover:text-grape-jelly focus:text-grape-jelly dark:text-bob dark:hover:text-thanos dark:focus:text-thanos\" id=\"\u00abR6kkr8lb2m7nfblb\u00bb\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:ai-summary;slk:key-takeaways;\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" fill=\"none\" viewbox=\"0 0 12 13\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fill-current\" height=\"24\" width=\"24\"><path d=\"M6 6.897 3.547 4.443a.5.5 0 0 0-.699.002.493.493 0 0 0-.001.699L6 8.298l3.155-3.155a.497.497 0 0 0-.001-.7.493.493 0 0 0-.7 0z\"\/><\/svg><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Spanish Prime Minister Pedro S\u00e1nchez on Sunday said his country has not committed to increasing annual defence-related spending to at least 5% of gross domestic product, after news emerged that NATO allies had reached agreement on a planned spending target.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">S\u00e1nchez, during an address broadcast on television, said raising defence expenditure to such a level &#8220;would be incompatible with our welfare state and our world view.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Spain only recently raised its defence expenditure to 2% of GDP, the premier noted, one of the last NATO allies to meet the 32-member alliance&#8217;s current spending target.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This level of expenditure was &#8220;perfectly compatible&#8221; with the capacities demanded by NATO and at the same time with maintaining the welfare state, said S\u00e1nchez, of the Socialist Workers&#8217; Party (PSOE).<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Spain had managed to change the consensus within NATO, with the desire of a majority of allies to commit to defence-related spending of 5% of GDP now reconciled with the right of other nations not do so, the Spanish leader said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">His comments come after diplomats told dpa that NATO allies had reached agreement on raising defence-related spending to at least 5% of GDP by 2035, a plan to be rubber-stamped at a leaders summit in The Hague next week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to the diplomats, NATO allies opposing the move, including Spain, were brought on board because the agreement includes plans for a review of the new target in 2029.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">As sovereign countries, all NATO members have the right and the duty to decide for themselves what sacrifices they want to make, S\u00e1nchez said. &#8220;And we, as a sovereign country, have decided against it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/spain-says-not-committed-meeting-185931818.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. 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