All 29 NATO countries stopped cutting defense spending, Jens Stoltenberg, the alliance’s secretary-general, said after a joint conference with Angela Merkel.
“After many years of reducing our defense spending, we see significant progress. All allies have stopped reducing, allies are investing more, more allies are spending 2% of GDP on defense, and most of them plan to do it by 2024.”
Merkel, in turn, said that Germany still adheres to the goal of raising defense spending to 2% of GDP, but it will not be able to achieve this in the next 10 years.