Europe’s pledge to boost its military spending will help defuse a trans-Atlantic trade war, because much of the new money will go toward U.S. arms, one of the EU's top two officials said https://t.co/XelOGpycu7 ...

Europe plans to buy a lot more military kit in the years to come—and wants to make most of it at home. Whether more spending will help its manufacturing sector depends on a number of factors https://t.co/YdETrqfLTl ...

From @WSJopinion: America has long asked its European allies to spend more on their own defense. So the astonishing news out of this week’s summit is the near unanimity: NATO allies have agreed to devote 5% of their economies to military spending. https://t.co/LypEr2Q6ZU ...

As politicians sell the benefits of rearmament to voters, many will claim that military spending will bring economic gains as well as security. However tempting, such arguments are wrong https://t.co/rhGbT4pom2 ...

The rich world is spending big on defence. As politicians sell the benefits of rearmament to voters, many will claim that military spending will bring economic gains as well as security. However tempting, such arguments are wrong https://t.co/p518OaXrN2Illustration: Timo Lenzen https://t.co/99RK8uarce ...

For European countries that just approved the biggest increase in military spending in decades, “Buy American” is looking a lot less appealing than it once was. They may have no choice https://t.co/7QlKoZiO20 ...

Where do NATO's members stand. Get us up to speed on where different members of NATO stand on that defense spending and that target of 5%. Yeah.Tom It's worth just sort of noting this moment where we got to have 5%. You know, this is something that Donald Trump had sort of floated in his election campaign, his re-election campaign talking about NATO at 5%. This was basically, I wouldn't say quite laughed at, but completely rejected as a concept, totally unrealistic and basically something that the Nato and ...

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