NATO Is Sketching Out Plan to Meet Trump Call for 5% of GDP on Defense

NATO allies have started cobbling together an agreement to significantly boost defense spending in a way that may assuage US President Donald Trump’s demand to spend 5% of economic output on the military.

Negotiators in the military alliance are making progress on a path to achieve 5% of gross domestic product on defense and defense-related spending by 2032 ahead of a North Atlantic Treaty Organization summit in The Hague in June, according to diplomats familiar with the matter. NATO foreign ministers will discuss the initiative at a meeting in the Turkish resort city of Antalya Wednesday and Thursday.