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NATO allies have reached a deal on setting a new defense spending target of 5 percent of gross domestic product that allows Spain to spend less, two alliance officials told POLITICO on Sunday.
The demand was originally raised by U.S. President Donald Trump and will be confirmed by NATO leaders meeting in The Hague on Wednesday.
Spain threw in a last-minute complication on Thursday, when Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez demanded an exemption from the new target — a steep increase on the alliance’s current 2 percent of GDP target that Spain has had trouble meeting.
In order to bring Madrid on board, the new language that leaders will approve on Wednesday was changed from “we commit” to “allies commit” to spend 5 percent on defense, a NATO official said. That would allow Spain spending flexibility as long as it meets NATO’s updated capability targets approved by alliance defense ministers on June 5.
In a statement on Sunday, Sánchez described the outcome as a “success,” which will allow Spain to “fulfill its commitments to the Atlantic alliance and preserve its unity, without having to increase defense spending to 5 percent of GDP.”
“Each NATO member … has the right and the obligation to choose whether or not to assume those sacrifices, and we as a sovereign country choose not to do so,” Sánchez said.
He added that Spain will spend 2.1 percent of its GDP on defense “to acquire and maintain all the personnel, equipment and infrastructures requested by the alliance to confront these threats with our capabilities.”
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