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A new target for spending is likely to be agreed at a NATO summit in The Hague in June. That would require agreement from all 32 member states. European countries have ramped up defense budgets ...

NATO countries formally committed to spending 2 percent of G.D.P. on their militaries in 2014, following Russia’s annexation of Crimea, though the benchmark had been discussed for over a decade.