President Donald Trump said NATO countries must sharply increase their defense spending, demanding member states push beyond current benchmarks that many of them already struggle to hit.

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Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk advocated for increased defense spending across NATO on Jan. 15, arguing that if all European members matched Poland’s spending, NATO’s defense budget would be ten times that of Russia’s.

Hundreds of Swedish troops have arrived in Latvia to join a Canadian-led multinational brigade along NATO’s eastern flank

Although the exact amount that Poland spent on defense in 2024 is not yet fully known, data from the Ministry of National Defense make it possible to draw up a preliminary picture. According to the publication Gazeta.

Slovakia’s pro-Russian prime minister has raised the prospect of his country leaving the European Union and Nato, arguing that world events could consign them to the “history books”.

War veterans and representatives of Warsaw city authorities gathered on Monday at the grave of Jan Nowak-Jeziorański, the legendary World War Two ‘Courier from Warsaw’. He died in Warsaw 20 years ago,

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NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte says the alliance is launching a new mission to protect undersea cables in the Baltic Sea region

Russian prime minister has threatened to pull Slovakia from the EU and NATO, arguing such alliances could soon only exist in "the history books".

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