{"id":79519,"date":"2025-06-25T14:46:58","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T14:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/nato-set-to-agree-big-spike-in-defence-spending-at-historic-summit-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T14:46:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T14:46:58","slug":"nato-set-to-agree-big-spike-in-defence-spending-at-historic-summit-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/nato-set-to-agree-big-spike-in-defence-spending-at-historic-summit-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Nato set to agree big spike in defence spending at &#8216;historic summit&#8217; | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nato leaders are meeting in The Hague to decide on ramping up defence spending to 5% of their countries&#8217; economic <!--more--> output, following months of pressure from US President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For too long, one ally, the United States, carried too much of the burden,&#8221; Secretary General Mark Rutte said in opening remarks in which he praised Trump for his leadership. &#8220;That changes today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Hague summit has been described by several leaders as historic, and Rutte said decisions made on Wednesday would include continued support for Ukraine while pushing for peace.<\/p>\n<p>Only Spain has rejected the target of spending 3.5% on defence by 2035, with a further 1.5% on related projects.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news <\/p>\n<p>#Nato #Trump #BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nato leaders are meeting in The Hague to decide on ramping up defence spending to 5% of their countries&#8217; economic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}