Spain is allocating military spending 2% of its gross domestic product for 2025, according to an estimate published by NATO, which keeps the country among the allies that least proportion to its GDP allocates to this area, but assumes that Spain complies for the first time with the expense objective that the members of the organization agreed in 2014 for the subsequent decade.
In the interannual comparison, according to the figures of the Alliance, Spain has increased its defense expenditure by 43.11%, from 22,693 million euros in 2024 to 33,123 million in this course.
In a statement, NATO indicates that these are figures collected until June 3 of this year and estimates that all its member countries already comply with the spending objective of 2% agreed at the Summit of Wales in 2014 in the face of the later decade, until 2024. Last year, only 19 of the 31 reached this milestone, according to data from the Alliance.
Together with Spain in 2%, Belgium, Czech Republic, Luxembourg and Portugal are located, while another dozen countries record percentages of defense spending between 2 and 2.1% of their GDP.
Under the combined pressure of the US president, Donald Trump, and the Russian war effort in Ukraine, NATO countries agreed in June of this year a radical increase of their military expenditure to 5% of their GDP from here to 2035.
The 5% figure is the sum of two types of spending: the bulk (3.5%) corresponds to strict military expenditure, such as arms purchases, the payment of the salaries and pensions of the armed forces, missions and maneuvers or research. In addition, countries must spend an additional 1.5 % of their GDP on safety in a broader sense, such as infrastructure. Spain, however, alleges that with 2% it can reach the defense objectives posed by NATO.
Source: www.eldiario.es
